Get Your Groove On

Sit-start on the jug horizontal just left of the large tree. Pull on and move up to a grainy finger-lock and execute a hard lock-off to a sloping pinch in the groove, from here continue direct up the black water groove. Powerful, and one sharp hold leads to skin friendly polished rock up and neat groove created by thousands of years of erosion.

The top of this problem sometimes catches leaves and debris which cause it to seep. I recently cleaned several years of dirt leaves and a bit of vegetation off of the top of the groove and cleaned it up in order to get it into climbable condition. This problem rarely sees attention, possibly from the painful, but good finger-lock guarding the groove.

This problem is located about 5 or 6 feet to the right of the large slopey arête used for "Bear Hug Arête".

3 pads.