This is a nice, wide hands crack with some liebacking on its upper half.  Tape is useful for the less-than-gifted crack climbers like me.  Find this crack starting right above a small bush.  The start is feels like a/the crux.  Get established and then jam away.  Left side in felt best with some fun combo liebacking, jamming to top out.

Descend by downclimbing a chimney to the East.

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Dudh Chai

Chimney Sweeper

This is not my route, but it's in the beta photo.

All these climbs seem a bit hard due to the overhanging sections, but if you're here, you'll probably climb this too.

This is the left of a set of 3 cracks on the West face of Fin City.  It is short, sweet, and inviting with some good hand jamming.  Tape is nice for those without great technique like me, and the jams are deep so forearms will get a bit scuffed.  The start is the crux of the climbing.  You can start from the ground with some help from the next crack left or step off the boulder behind and jam.  A #0.75 Camalot can be set off this boulder to protect the tricky start.  Note, there is a nice lieback rail on the right wall about 1/2 way up.  Also, the last few feet of climbing involves standing on & climbing a huge flake, which appears balanced & detached.  Beware of using this flake for protection.  1.4 stars.

This is a route ascending a fun, crack on the S side of the West face of this crag.  The name is derived from the Rossiter & Gillett guides.  The climb faces West, so it is cool in the mornings.  The climbing is wide hands with a bit of a face climbing crux.  It seemed best to be left side in.  Tape was helpful for non-Peter Croft-like crack climbers.  The mellow start was nice compared with the starts for

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To descend, move to the next slot North and downclimb into a chimney.

This line is an obvious crack to chimney climb that just begged to be climbed.  It wasn't listed in the Gillett guidebook, so I gave it a name.  Dudh Chai, a.k.a. Milk Tea.  It is gentle, easy on the stomach, and a good warmup for the stiffer neighbors to its right.  The crux felt like it was the start.

You can downclimb to the East to descend and can use a toprope to belay your partner down, since a fall would be ugly.

This is the wide slot on the West face of Fin City.  While appealing to climb, leading this is an entirely different proposition, since the bulk of it may be only protectable with Big Bros or 2 x 4s.  The climb has a benign appearance, but looks can deceive as the left wall, which you use for you feet, has somewhat of a friable feel to it, still, due to lack of traffic or rock quality, or both.  It is probably best to climb it right side in.

You can downclimb the chimney to the East.

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