This is a shallow, wide fingers-to-thin-hands crack. Very manky jams, so one must (for this rating) use the small footholds in the cement aggregate within about 8" of the crack. At the top, reach up for the slot-pocket and then reach across right to the alcove.

If the crack was deeper, this would be about 10a/b without the pebbles. As it is so shallow, it is probably about 12a without the footholds next to the crack.

Left crack, with pebbles

Right Crack

Left Brick

Center Brick

Right Brick

Right Arete

The 19th Brick

Left Arete

Wiggly, shallow hand-to-wide-hand crack on the right side of the wall. About midheight, it jogs right.

Hands and feet in crack only: about 10c.

Hands in, feet on any foothold: about 10a.

Following crack, but sometimes using neighboring holds or stemming on the North Rib: 5.8 to 5.9.

Features on the bricks that go up into the center cave.

Rightmost features on the bricks inside the buttress.

Arete on the far right side of the north face.

Traverse left to right across whole wall. Start with a stem. No rocks allowed for hands or feet. Seven pockets allowed for hands, all at or below the 19th layer of bricks. For feet, use the boundary between the cement and the brick, or edges on the brick.

The topo-line vertices show the handhold pockets, except where route goes behind the buttress.

Arete on the left most part of the wall. Feet on anything.

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Location

Protection

Routes in North Face