A crumbly start leads to better rock above, with a fun exit. Like many new routes in the Alabama Hills, be aware of loose holds and friable rock until the route sees more traffic.

Choss Whisperer

Every Day is Earth Day

Have a Slabulous Day

Probably Go, Natural Pro

Have a Scabulous Day

Corner the Market, Lose the Planet

Seamingly Cool

Previously described in the comments of neighboring route

Choss Whisperer

, this short left angling crack was named by Munge Climber.

The route is extremely chossy at the start with shallow crack, which does accept good pro starting about 12' up.  The pro is actually pretty solid, which is thankful as the rock is not.   Barely worth doing if in the area.  The crack peters out on a gravely low angle shelf which you can climb right to tie into the mussy hook anchor of "Choss Whisperer".

Face climb past 5 bolts to a bolted anchor at the summit. It is also possible to sling a horn about 70 feet up by wandering to the left onto Have a Scabulous Day

Climb grainy friction up through Earth Day Dome's "smile"

Wander up the hollow, friable, crumbly, poorly-protected face to the right of Have a Slabulous Day. The first reliable protection is a slung horn about 70 feet off the deck.

Don't be fooled by the 3-star rating in the guidebook, this thing is some "grade A" choss wrangling.

Boulder up past 1 bolt on decomposing flakes to access what appears from the ground to be a nice handcrack in a corner. Make the discovery that it's in fact a thin, shallow, flaring, grainy slot and then commit to crumbling edges on the face to the right. Whine, whimper, curse, and pray your way up the corner to where you can make a couple of grainy friction moves out right to a thank-god bolt. One more committing face move gets you to lower-angled terrain and the anchor.

It's probably best for your belayer to stand a little off to the side to avoid the inevitable rain of grain that will be coming off, and in the event that you blow it and rip all of your marginal gear, someone will still be alive to go get the coroner.

Kind of "fun" in a sick and twisted way, this might eventually clean up with another 100 ascents or so.

Located to the right of Every Day is Earth Day,  Climb incipient seams to plates.  Rappel from anchors at the top of Every Day is Earth Day.

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Routes in Earthday and Munge Domes