Chili Bean

A little pinnacle with a technical-means-only summit.

I love it when i find evidence of previous climbers.  Sometimes I know or can guess who it was and roughly when.  Sometimes it's a complete mystery. 1/4 inch bolts on top of Mystery Pinnacle at the Outback.  Old piton in the canyon west of Sunspots.  Rupley ?  Thompson ?

I assumed I would be the first person on top of the Chili Bean (and first on top of K12)… wrong-o !!  On Chili Bean I found some oppo-ed stoppers with a carabiner... a rap anchor.  Who and when ?  Don't know.  Nothing in any guide book... and I have them all.

Has a short SE side and a much taller NW side.

The blunt east arete has a midway bolt and an anchor with leaver biners. With these and a stickclip, it is possible to TR the arete. I was hoping for a 5.8 warmup there. But it's 5.11. So I aborted the line rather than create a zero star, 20 foot 5.11.