Starts next to left facing corner, 15 feet right of The Three Hour Arete.  Clean, bolt protected granite slab and edge climbing leads to a hand sized crack. Step left to a thin crack.  Step left across an exposed slab, clip a bolt and pull devious 5.9 bulge to a bolted anchor.

P2 continues up a bolted slab, to finger crack.  Continue up and right, to easy climbing in a blocky crack.  Bolted belay left of the crack. (Can combine P1 and P2)  A better variation clips the first two bolts on the slab, then heads up and slightly right to the bulge on Three Hour Arete.  (5.8)

P3 starts up a lieback flake (gear).  Step right, continue up to a bolted face crux series of moves to easier ground.  Move left to a bolted belay (or continue up P4) 5.9

P4 From the sloping ledge, move up the steep, featured crack to a bolted anchor.

Gear: Doubles to #3 camalot. 5.8

Descent: 4 raps down the route with a single 70m OR 5 raps with a 60 m (first rap is a short rap to the top anchor of 3 Hour Arete)

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Three Minute Man

Hall Pass

Three Hour Arete

Four pitch climb with an easy approach.  Pitch 1: left and below a bolt single bolt, then up a thin crack (5.9).  Head up left to a 5.7 lieback corner. 30m pitch.  1 bolt + gear for belay (small + #2,#3) below small bush.  Pitch 2: Start with 5.8 gear protected rightward traverse, then up a crack to a bolted bulge (5.9).  4 more bolts on the 5.8 arete lead to a bolted anchor.  Pitch 3:  20m up the bolted arete (5.10a) to a bolted anchor.  Pitch 4:  Clip a bolt and commit to the crux mantle (5.10c), continue 30m up the bolted arete/face.  (Alternately, continue left after the first bolt for the 5.10d, "Hall Pass"  variation, leading to the same anchor)

P1: 4 bolts in slab lead to an anchor at the base of a right leaning crack.

P2: Mostly hand sized crack to broken features on the left lead to an anchor.

This route is an alternative to the 4th pitch of The Three Hour Arete.  Climb the first 3 pitches of Three Hour Arete, clip the first bolt of pitch 4, then continue traversing left to an exposed roof.  Pull the crux (5.10d) and continue up fun sport granite sport climbing to the anchors of Three Hour Arete.

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