Tsunami

Another beautiful climb on the "Perfect Wave Slab". Handren gave it 3 stars out of 3 (the only such rating he gave to any Rainbow climb).See the ROUTE PHOTO posted to Cruise Control.Approach- From where the climber's path reaches the slab, walk right along the base about 35-40 ft. Go uphill to a dirt ledge below a brownish 12ft-high slab. Scramble ( 5.4 ? )or belay-climb up the 12 ft face to a large ledge with a couple of pine trees, one of which is knocked over.An interesting alternate approach is to climb Perfect Wave (5.7) as far as the threaded anchor, and WITH A 70 METER ROPE, “thread“ the anchor with your own ‘biner(s) and then lower down ("tension traverse" downhill) Tsunami to this same ledge. Don't try it with a 60M rope!...( or even an old, or shortened, 70m ) and don't try it as your first ( or even 2nd) tension traverse. The second then follows up to the anchor and is lowered by the leader on the ledge. KNOT THE END ( see photo ) P1 - From the tree ledge (see topo), climb up and left to the obvious dike; follow this to the threaded anchor of Perfect Wave. 115 ft 5.6Descent- Thread the anchor and rappel ( KNOT ENDS !, see photo)   back with a 70M, or ( better) continue climbing up to the top of the slab and the bolted anchor at the top of Silver Surfer.

Usual rack, at least one natural thread along the way; and the smaller Aliens are useful.