High quality rock with jams and jugs, what could be better?

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High quality rock with jams and jugs, what could be better?

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Looking down <em>Cookie Monster</em> from a belay position at approximately 180 feet.

Top of Cookie Monster - Interactive 360°: https://go.ibex.fit/mp

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Chris Koppl 1

Sep 26, 2022

“High quality rock with jams and jugs, what could be better?”

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Sometimes you have to wait in line to get on this route.

Cookie Monster is the crack in the center of the photo. Starts on the ledge (scramble up and to the right and then around left at the top). Pitch 2/3 ends at the small tree at the top on the "lunch ledge". Drop packs around

Lunch ledge to CitH rappel. Don't climb like guy in photo, walk around photographer and under the tree.

Routes on east face of Mescalito.

Beautiful view up-canyon from lunch ledge

Cookie Monster

Climbing up start of pitch 1

Looking up from the start of pitch 2.

Sarah, warming up at the top of P1

Valerie above the small roof on pitch 2.

Gwen approaching the first belay.

Top of Cookie Monster at tree belay. In photo to the right is right at the base of cat in the hat pitch three. Alternatively, it is at the tree rap station if you want to proceed down to the ground via cat and the hat repel route

The second (or third) pitch of Cookie Monster depending on if you combine the pitches.<br>
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(Taken 10/31/07)

Adam enjoying the view on P1 of Cookie Monster

At the lunch ledge. Two options from here:<br>
* Continue up to pitch 5 of <em>[[105732419]]</em> (back through the opening below and to the right of the rope, then up the face).<br>
* Fifteen feet of easy downclimbing to the left takes you to the large ledge at the top of <em>Cat in the Hat's</em> 3rd pitch. From there it's two double-rope raps to the bottom.<br>
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Looking down <em>Cookie Monster</em> from a belay position at approximately 180 feet.

High quality rock with jams and jugs, what could be better?

Top of Cookie Monster - Interactive 360°: https://go.ibex.fit/mp

Route looking up from the big ledge base.

Mescalito, SE face

topo. trip report at tenthousandtoofar.com

Supper duper fun climbing on cookie monster!

Belay at top of Cookie Monster from the tree / lunch ledge (end of pitch 2 or 3 depending on how you climb it)

The route is very direct- we found this climbing shoe here at the base of pitch 1; have to guess that somebody dropped it from way up the route!

Following on the first pitch of Cookie Monster

Ashley on Cookie Monster

Looking down the first pitch

Found him just chillin there almost at the top of P1 - he probably climbed it better than me =)

sloping ledge belay spot,

This is the top of Cookie Monster and where you can link up with Cat in the Hat (the start of pitch 6). You keep going right as seen in this photo and then head up dark wall. Don't belay from the alcove that this photo is taken from, that was a mistake.

First pitch..

Last pitch of Cat in the Hat.

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