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Way cool. The first pitch was a good first aid lead for me, fith perfect rock in the upper seam. The difficult bit of p3 is very short, two brief bulges that could probably be aided. The first is a bit of bridging to a mantel, and the second a high=step to a mantel. Good gear for both. Weirdly, the rock on this route get worse the higher you go. "The desert is very phallic." -my friend Mona J., and this is the most phallic of all desert rocks when viewed from the parking lot.

My 2 cents --1) Gear: I used only 1 RP on the entire route (pitch 1). I would recommend 2 sets of nuts and a single set of cams to 3". Splitter 2-cams worked well for several placements.

2) The rap from the top back down to the land bridge is roughly 150 ft (45m) and free-hanging. Also, it would be difficult to bail off after the first pitch, as the route angles left.

More Pictures and a TR at
http://www.piquaclimber.com/past/hindu/hindu.htm

The description for this route should be C2, NOT A2. It is not difficult to climb clean and it would be a bummer to give people the wrong impression.

Changes made, good idea Joe.

I guess its also relevant to say that this goes free at 5.13ish.

Whoever gets the thin splitter pitch..(1 or 2...depending on where you belay...)you get the "money" pitch;...after that...,... you get the groady leftovers....;...the booby prize. A Harvey Carter Route;...he da Man! And this went free too.....wow.....not by me. Did this with Dave Evans, Cyndie Bransford, and Margy Floyd in Arch 1991. What a cool spire.

Super fun route, and a perfect first aid tower for my wife and I. We had a very cold and windy day, which added to the thrill.

As of March 2009, the approach was well cairned and took about 25 minutes. At the major cliffband, the trail moves up and left across easy terraces to a short little chimney. We bypassed the chimney on easy terraces just to the right.

P1) I thought the opening moves getting to the crack were exciting, especially considering the hard landing on the ledge. The remainder of the crack was straightforward for a novice aid climber.

P2) The gear seemed a little funky for me getting to the fixed piece for the penji, especially considering the fall onto the belay. Maybe I didn't spend enough time fiddling in the right piece. I have no idea what I clipped into for the penji, all I saw was tat and rust :)

P3) We linked P3 and P4 with no problem. The free climbing seemed pretty easy - just fun stemming with good gear. The upper aid bit was short and all the gear seemed pretty good. Take care on the final free climbing section to the top, as there are lots of loose rocks and my aiders almost dropped one on my belayer. There was one fixed pin and good gear available for the anchor on top. And then you downclimb to the rap anchor.

The rap was exciting particularly with ropes blowing sideways. It doesn't look like you'll land on the bridge, but amazingly you end up right on it. Free hanging for sure.

Gear for me: Two sets of wires from brass offsets to big wires. Two sets of small to finger sized cams (I placed a green and grey C3). Tricams from white to pink. I had a set of offset TCUs and placed a few, but I don't think they are necessary. One set of camalots from #.5 - #3