The highlight of the crag! Slab climbing is

way

more fun when you have an obvious point of security to shoot for. Like Dark of the Moon, there is constant motivation to connect the dots between a

ll those c

hickenheads,

with the extra bonus of a few flakes and edges.

Pad up the initial 30' of very low angle 5.0 slab, shooting for the initial crack in the middle/left of the face. Place a piece, then mantle and slidepull your way up the heavily featured face. Slab geeks may find themselves smiling and grinning their way past the many chickenheads, flakes, edges  interspersed with large, dishy smears here and there.

There is an anchor station mid-way and after there, it's

progressively

easier

yet

progressively

runout

climbing to a 2 bolt anchor. I think there may be one or two pins on the second half but the reduction in grade helped the run out feel reasonable.

Keep moving and don't think about it!

Ducks in Bondage

Debbie Does Daffy

S&M Airlines

Ugly Duckling

Ugly Bondage link up

Link chickenheads on the left side of the Ducks in Bondage slab. Although this was drilled on lead, the pro is perfect. It's easy to rap to these anchors on your way back down from the top of Ducks in Bondage. If you are on TR, the direct start is highly recommended.

Mixed. Singles to #3. Another fun pitch, but a bit more serious.

To the R of Ducks. After a steep start Connect the chicken heads to an overlap, place some poorish gear and launch for the faint flake, the crux is leaving the flake via poor crimps to gain more chicken heads. Diego did 1st ascent OS!

start up Ugly and traverse L wards into Bondage. An accidental FA

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