Climb easy rock past two bolts to a stance below a shield feature on the right side of the West Wall.  Consider skipping these bolts or backcleaning to avoid drag.  The climbing to this point is trivial, but the rock is poor.  Using drilled pockets and sidepulls, pull a bouldery sequence (crux) to a stance.  Continue up using more drilled pockets and arete features through another crux (easier than the first) section to the anchor. 

  The rock on the face is very solid, but seems to stay quite dirty.

Hot Pockets

Spit On It !

Precarious

Where The Wild Things Are

Crackalicious

This line follows the obvious crack system through the right facing corner on the left side of the West Wall. 

  Scramble up to the base of the corner passsing a bolt or two.  Consider skipping these or back cleaning to avoid rope drag.  Use caution as the rock quality is poor through this section. Jam and layback through a powerful sequence that is capped by a mini roof.  Your efforts will be rewarded with a stance after the roof.  Stem your way up to the anchors. 

  While eyeballing this line from a neighboring route, the crack through the crux has widened significantly since I was on this in 2010. Not sure if this is from aggressive cleaning or traffic, but I remember thin locks on razor sharp rock for a couple of moves below the mini roof. The top looks like it has cleaned up quite a bit.  

Straight up face move left onto ledge rest. Climb large left facing diehdral moving right crux to nice finish.

Starting from below crackalicious, head up and left off the ledge, then straight up 8 bolts to rings.  Crux is 2 bolts from the top.  There are a couple of tombstone blocks on a ledge halfway up that look scary like they might pull out and hit your belayer.

Tallest Climb at west wall wet start 10d or you can start on precarious and traverse left.

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Routes in h. West Wall