Start as for Gate Keeper.  Positive holds past a few bolts.  At the small roof feature move left for the friction crux.  After the crux head up to the obvious left trending seam.  Follow the seam to the anchor that is shared with Seams To Be.

Not quite as clean feeling as Seams To Be, but the upper seam is pretty good.

It is possible to avoid the friction crux by stepping right at the small roof feature and climbing the Gate Keeper arete for ~15 feet before stepping back left to the bolted line.  11 something overall this way.

Not What It Seams

Gate Keeper

Meltdown

Atom Smasher

Toxic Avenger

Finger Crackin' Good

Isotopes Gone Wild

Seams to Be

Follow a thin seam up the slab. Fantastic slab climbing at its best and most desperate. The guidebook gives it 12a but it seemed a lot harder than that for Pine Creek; more in line with an old school Idyllwild 12a slab, albeit with closer bolting.

pitch 1, 5.9: Start up blocks directly below the crackline, entering the crack after ~3 meters. Follow the crack, stepping right between systems at about 15 meters height. The pitch ends at a bolt anchor (rap rings).

pitch 2, 5.9: Move up and left to a right facing corner, climb this to a small roof, pull the roof then move up and left to an anchor.

Rappel descent: two 35m rappels (probably doable with 60m rope, but be very careful on the second rappel, it may involve some downclimbing).

Climbs the obvious slightly right leaning seam/dihedral feature just right of Atom Smasher.  The upper dihedral is a little deceiving, what looks like it may be thin crack ends up being yet another techy Pine Creek face seam.

Climb a thin flake to a nice stance and follow the bolt line trending right, pull through a section of vertical climbing on crimps to finish up another thin flake.

Start to the right of finger crackin good on the arete of the slab. There are two bolts, head up the low angle cracks to another bolt and then clip another bolt at the bottom of the roof, pull the roof and pass two more bolts.

Scramble up to a right facing corner, climb up to the roof and pull left around it. Continue up the crack to lower-off anchor.

First bolted line to the right of the wide chimney. It climbs an interesting looking blank groove.  A definitive crux section mid-way leads to easier featured climbing to the anchor. Beautiful line, great movement.

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