Also know by some as Secret Climb One, this fine line splits the back (south) side of Twisted Sister.  The crux comes part way up just past the lone bolt, but a steep thin hands crack at the top adds some challenge too.  This route gets great winter sun.

Obscurosplitter

Western Relief

Frontal Lobe Excision

Space Master 2

Unknown (Secret Climb Two)

I'm Not Okay, You're Not Okay, But That's Okay

This is the splitter crack on the pillar to the right of

I'm Not OK...

. It starts on the NW corner of the 2nd formation and climbs over a small roof (crux) to a beautiful low angle crack above. There is a fixed Camalot anchor at the top of the descent ramp that can be used to clean gear, etc.

There are a number of ways to start this, I went up on the right up under the roof and then out left into the dihedral (kinda sucked). You can slab your way up if your good at that sort of thing (probably not 5.7), and there is also another thin, flared crack that runs up the slab just left (maybe harder then 5.7 also). That option cuts off a fair chunk of the dihedral.

I cruised up the dihedral until it got really thin and vegetated at a nice ledge/ramp system at which point I went left up a widish crack to the little tree.  That cut the last 10-20 feet of the dihedral short but seemed better than messing up my ankle in the middle of nowhere trying to clean plants out of the crack and pray for gear since I lost my RPs. We rapped off the tree, and since we had 2 ropes we rigged to pull the webbing when we were on the ground.  So, don't expect any webbing or a formal anchor for that matter for all I know.  Although I didn't go all the way to the notch to see if walking off the back is possible, but I doubt it would be.

First I would like to know who did the first ascent of this or even if anyone else has climbed it as I want to know their 5.11c beta as proposed in the Hubbel book. I salute the hardman/hardwoman who thinks this route is 5.11.

For the route: move right around a corner from

Western Relief

(formerly Moderate Dihedral on this site) and into a gully. On the left wall, 40 feet from

Western Relief

are two right-arcing cracks, one on top of the other. This route climbs the lower of the two cracks and involves 5.11+ climbing off the ground to pretty solid 5.12 undercling/off-finger awkward jamming with pretty poor feet. The route stays on you but eases up after the first crux and then has a pretty mellow although pumpy finish. Highly recommended but I thought the route was solid 5.12, not 5.11 as Hubbel lists it. Again, anyone climb this and think otherwise, or even agree with me for that matter?

Build a gear anchor and then downclimb off to the right, working back around the gully to the base.

This is the right had of the two parallel crack systems on the south side of Twisted Sister.  I only TRd this one back in the day as a friend was working it & the FA details may have been lost.  This route goes back & forth between the two offset cracks to an anchor on top.

Follow the left and of two right leaning cracks for about 75.  I seem to recall thinking this one was good way back around 1990 when we visited Twisted Sister a few times.

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Routes in The Twisted Sisters