Small corner and crack just right of Good Prospects Route which is as well just right of first portion of Prospect Point Pinnacle II (5.8) route on the lower wall section.  Good Prospects and Poor Prospects are not found or indicated in any of the established guidebooks.

Poor Propects

Creamy Caesar

Good Prospects

Prospect Point Pinnacle - West Face

Hard Sell

Dire Prospects (aka Unnamed 5.10a)

Short Sale

Son of a Bush

Prospect Point Pinnacle - East Face

Second Day Air

Thin face moves.  There are more of the sharp sidepulls that characterize Prospect Point Pinnacle.

Creamy Caesar is a nice alpine-esque climb north of Prospect Point Pinnacle.  Find two cracks about three feet apart, about 8 feet left of a small chimney.  The first crux comes at the steep start.  The left crack is slightly easier.  Ascend broken dihedrals to a steep headwall about 15 feet from the top.  The second crux is getting up this headwall.  Good pro is easily found for lead.

I thought I was going to scramble up this, but after soloing out onto the South ledge, I went back for my gear! 

  Scramble up to the saddle/block between Prospect Point and the Pinnacle.  Establish yourself on the West Face.  Mantle onto the summit block.  Finally (you are not done until you do this) stand upright on the very top. 

  To descend, you will have to downclimb the route or leave gear/webbing.

Hard Sell is a fun little climb on the south face of the cliff band that contains Prospect Point Pinnacle.  The crux is a very steep jam crack that you must tackle right off the deck.  Get off the ground, pull through this crack, and climb up the dihedral over terrain that gets easier as you ascend.

This is a short, though cruxy, climb behind the Prospect Point Pinnacle.   The guidebook description: Overhang with two cracks above. 

  The route begins under a low, deep overhang.  Begin with an undercling and a sidepull.  A nut can be placed from the ground, and another can be placed from the first move.  After this, protection is difficult/impossible, as all those beautiful-looking finger pods are actually flaring downwards and outwards. 

  A series of liebacks and hand bumps leads to a couple weird crimps, then the route follows easy (5.6) blocks to the top.  An OK cam can be placed in the obvious large crack near the top.

Smaller hands will find this problem easier. 

  Choose one of the two starting cracks.  The direct crack baffled me (a long reach?), so I started in the crack to the right.  The start is more awkward than it looks! 

  The bulge at the top has a good stance to the right. 

  (unnamed route #3 in Swartling and Mayer)

Son of a Bush is the first obvious dihedral you'll encounter on the south-facing wall near the climber's access trail near Prospect Point Pinnacle.  This is a nice route for the new leader with good stances and pro.

Climb the lower face (Swartling and Mayer provide a good photo of your options), then climb the pinnacle proper using amazing incut sidepulls, an obscure knob on the left arete, and once established on the South ledge a throw to the summit plateau. 

  This would be "great" and not just "good" if it didn't have that huge ledge in the middle. 

  Setting this as a TR is a real trick!  Good nuts and finger sized gear in the summit block.

Second Day Air is just north of the Prospect Point Pinnacle.  The start can be had up either a challenging chimney or a more shallow diagonal ledge/crack to the right of the chimney.  Ascend the first wall to a large ledge, then follow the broken corner to the left up to a ghastly squeeze chimney.  Inchworm up the chimney to top out.

Southern most area within the Prospect Point Rampart Area.

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