Climb Hitching Post and use the rap anchors for top rope anchors and climb the face that you rappel off.

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Hitching Post

One of the finest 5.2s on the face of the Earth.  Do this in the winter or on a weekday or you'll end up in a hundred home movies. 

  Start almost in the tunnel.  Climb steep but juggy rock up the back side of the rock to the summit ridge.  Make airy moves along the summit ridge to the tippy top.  Very few 5.2s reach a perch like this. 

  Rap straight down to the parking lot - I think one rope just makes it.

Hitching Post is the spire making up the right edge of the Needles Eye side of the tunnel.  A fantastic easy route ascends from very near the entrance to the tunnel itself, and tourists occasionally climb it and scream for help to get down.  Some harder bolted lines are also scattered around the other faces of this complicated massif, and don't necessarily end on the summit pinnacle.

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