Follow the easy, broken, left-leaning crack system to the top.

Crow's Nest

Fragile Rock

Medal of Honor

Heartbreaker

Fontaine’s Face

AKA “Book of Dread.” 140ft to gear anchor. Starts on broken face and easy ledges and moves into right facing dihedral with hand sized crack. Protects well. Short easy chimney/offwidth at top that can be avoided by climbing face to the right. Save larger gear for protecting inside the offwidth. Intermediate 3 bolt anchor allows this to be done in two pitches. This route is particularly prone to small rock fall directly onto the belayer. Wear helmets and be careful of loose rock.

Blocky climbing in left facing corner. Named "fragile rock" for good reason. While most of the rock has been cleaned by previous climbers, belayer should wear a helmet.

Also known as Leg Breaker in honor of C/Sgt Tinsley, who was a British Royal Marine mountain leader exchange instructor in the early 90s. He took a whipper mid-way up and hit the overhang with his leg, breaking his tibia. To add insult to injury, he re-broke the leg when dropping into a telemark turn at Mammoth the following winter.

Climb cracks and edges to roof. Climb the roof on the left side on good holds. The route meanders generally straight up on small edges and cracks. The face gets smoother and more moss covered closer to the top, but is well protected with small gear and bolts.

Fun movement on small edges and jugs. 140ft to two bolt anchor above the lip. Very dirty and has moss growing in patches over the route. Evidence of recent rock-fall and exfoliation. Check all holds before committing. One glue-in bolt midway up has been smashed by rock-fall. Still usable but suspect.

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