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Description
Start: At a short, blocky, right-facing corner with a protruding block about 15 feet up. This is the same start as Three Pines.
P1: Climb the short corner to a brushy ledge with a tree. Move up and left following a short corner and face passing a ledge to another ledge and belay below right-facing flakes. 5.2
P2: Climb the flakes up to a small grassy ledge and continue up and left past another ledge to the GT Ledge. 5.3
Traverse left on the GT Ledge to the second of 3 jutting pine trees. The next pitch starts at the low overhang about 15 feet right of a belay/rap station (Nemesis)
P3: Make a few moves past the low overhang and move right to small corner and another overhang (crux), above which is a small ledge. Climb fun moves up the face past a piton (another crux), aiming for the obvious block that teeters out over the face. Belay on the nice ledge under the roof above. 5.5
P4: Move up and left past the roof/corner aiming for a second pin above a slab under another big roof. Make the thin traverse left and exit up easier rock to the top. 5.5 (The Williams guidebook has this pitch at 5.3 but I thought the traverse was the crux of the route. It's possible I missed something though.)
Descent: From the top of the climb it is possible to follow a faint(at first) herd path right to the bolted rappels of Three Pines.
Routes in d. Strictly - The Ceiling
- 27Simple Ceilings5.5Trad