Alias Bandit Bench

This route meanders a bit and though there are only four protection bolts the difficult climbing seems well-protected.

Start by climbing up the obvious right facing dihedral. Clip a bolt at it's top and make the crux move up and left to gain a sloping ledge/ramp.  Traverse along this ramp to the left clipping two more bolts.  A fourth bolt protects the climbing straight up to a big ledge and anchors which are shared with the route Lucky 13.

You have three options from here.  One can rappel to the ground, about 75'.  One can also do the original second pitch, now called True Grit, which climbs up and right past two bolts in a water streak  to the very top of Badman Mezzanine.  Belay from the large tree.

To descend either traverse right for about 50' to the anchor at the top of Bandits in Bondage and do a double rope rappel to the ground.  Or you can downclimb the chimney on the left side of the mezzanine and do two single rope rappels to the ground(see the third option below).

One can also do the second pitch it shares with Lucky 13 and traverses left past six bolts to a water streak which is climbed up past two more bolts to a two-bolt anchor.  Most people who do the second pitch choose not to belay at this anchor.  Instead they climb up 25 feet to the rappel anchor with chains. From here two single rope rappels, the first a low angle slab, the second an overhanging, free rappel bring you back to the ground.  Watch for poison oak at the base. It's evil!

Once you leave the Balconies Trail and head up the climber's trail, after about 500 feet the trail climbs up a rocky, low angle trough.  At the top of this trough look up and spot a right facing dihedral with a bolt at it's top.  Go for it!

Four protection bolts plus two bolts for an anchor. If you want to the pitch 2 left(Lucky 13) variation bring gear for 11 bolts.