This route is fairly easy, super fun and exposed.  It has a great spicy stem into a long cruiser knifeblade 5.3 ridgeline that is unreal fun! 

  A rappel from the chain anchors will easily allow you to top rope Blood Sausage. 

  This summit has not seen much action.  We climbed this route when we first top roped Blood Sausage and were the first people who had signed the register in 12 years.

Gilson Route on Butcher's Hand

Blood Sausage

This route climbs an awesomely aesthetic line direct up the south face on some extremely unique features.  It's a real power piece - there are few rests on this short but tough little fella!  The real climbing begins on the large pedestal, and any way you get to that point is fine.  Staying left of the bolts, climb direct through the huecos and crystals to the summit.  This route is short, wild, exposed, aesthetic, and fun! 

  Do not bail left onto the west face up the easy crystal trough at the 4th bolt - continue direct up the face!

The Butcher's Hand is a long narrow fin of rock on the North end of the gully  between the formations Meat Counter and Cleaver.  There are three known routes on this formation.  There is a 5.5 Bill Gilson route first climbed in 1959 (First ascent of the formation.)  There is also a Phinney route called Pinkie Rib (5.9) and a new sport route called Blood Sausage (5.11).  When viewed from the south, this rock looks like a needles style spire and is very aesthetic!

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Routes in The Butcher's Hand