Dependent Variable

No gear for the start makes for a jittery launch. The route utilizes a difficult and dirty start in order to reach the attractive system of parallel cracks in the headwall above. The filthy slab between these two sections of good climbing and the poor pro for that start are serious detractions. If the upper cracks are your goal, they are 5.6 and can be accessed by wallowing up the easier parts of the slab to the left. Climb up through the parallelogram notch and make a difficult move to a rounded stance ledge. Work up a vertical seam/very thin crack onto a filthy, cluttered, easy slab. Scramble up and right to a cluster of right-leaning vertical cracks. Climb up one or more of these to a couple easy steps leading to trees on a ledge.

7m left of the tall, narrow "A-frame" alcove, behind a small tree growing 1m from the cliff, where an overlap with a parallelogram-shaped notch lies at rib-height.

There are no fixed pcs. on this route. There is no pro for the first 4m, which includes the hardest moves of the route.