Nicely bolted and well protected stout sport route on impeccable Hatcher granite.  Steep and pumpy lower half, techy and balancey upper half.

2 Left Shoes

Sprinklers Save Lives

Wanchors Away

Choke the Chicken

Coitus Interuptus

Rise

Double Dihedral

Killing Aphrodite

First bolt is high (15-20' with soft, flat tundra below) followed by gear placements, and then a few more bolts to the anchor.  The rock is blissful Hatcher granite of the highest grade.

Climb the rightward trending crack beside a black face, traverse left onto the face when the crack runs out to the wanchor. Not bad climbing, could clean up okay.

Cracks and flakes right of Coitus Interruptus. Bottom is fun, dirty top half with solid rock. Traverse left to the anchor. Don't forget to sling the monster chicken head.

Sweet dikes and chicken heads. Straight up. Nearly perfect rock.

P1: Climb a pitch of moderate slab with spacey pro to a crazy needle of granite standing on end.  Two-bolt anchor is just to the right.   P2: Follow the slab to the right along the base of the steep headwall to an obvious crack system that will take you to the top.    UPDATE: As of 7-9-14 step right to a two-bolt anchor just below the P3 crack.   P3: Head up the crack system.  About 20 feet off the slab it splits into two nice hand cracks.  Follow it to a mouth-like ledge overlooking the incredible scenery.  Belay here on two bolts if you'd like, or climb the next sixty feet or so to the topout.   P3.5: Climb out the left side of the mouth (Or straight out the top if you're a beast) and find a two-bolt anchor directly above the route.   Descent: Walkoff or rappel. The route can be rappelled with one 60m rope.

This route goes pretty much straight up very high grade Hatcher granite for ~280' through two distinct dihedrals.

 P1 (5.10+, ~55m): To start Double D climb Sprinklers Save Lives to the anchor and belay, or skip anchor and trend left to a black streak with a crack that eventually disappears. Continue past 2 bolts and enter the dihedral proper. Belaying from the top of SSL when leading up to the dihedral may keep you from hitting the featured sloping ledge if you whip at the crux. Follow the dihedral up and move left after a mini roof/bulge near the top to a nice ledge with anchor.

 P2 (5.10-, ~30m): Move up and right off the anchor ledge to short cracks leading a small ledge at the base of the upper dihedral. Climb the dihedral with small gear pulling left over the top to a big ledge. Move right and up from this ledge (with a lot of air underneath your feet). After this flake to short corner-crack section, you'll follow a couple bolts and gear up featured slab to an anchor on a large ledge. 

Climbs the start of Double D for 5 bolts then goes directly through fun roof moves(1st crux) and follows 2 more bolts on highly featured slab to a comfortable 2 bolt anchor.  Follow crack right of belay then traverse to the "groove"(2nd crux) and 1 bolt. Continue diagonally left to a horn and up cracks to a small roof.  Traverse bellow the roof to a parallel crack and follow to a 2 bolt anchor with rings.

A large wall looming directly over a crystal blue mountain lake.  The scenery can't be beat, but the climbing is largely undeveloped and even established routes can be dirty and lichen-covered still.  The season is limited as the snow only melts off the trail in May or June and comes back again in September.

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