From Handren "Start 15' to the right of Reverse Osmosis below a varnished slab. The long line of bolts on the right side of the wall. (10 b's)"

No Hay Sequia

Reverse Osmosis

Tuna Cookies

Dolphin Safe

The Minnow

Mac and Tuna

Sierra Club Tower

Tuna and Chips

Waterstreak

Chips and Salsa

Albacore Man

Fishbreath

Chips Ahoy

From Handren: "The well bolted line on the left side of the wall (10 b's)"

This climb is a fun climb. While in the book as 2 pitches, I chose to run to the top, to the end of my 70M rope. This worked well for me, but perhaps someone can comment on the belay situation in detail if done in 2 pitches.  

  In the center of the Tuna and Chips wall there is a small tower with a crack/groove on each side. 'Tuna Cookies' is on the left and 'Waterstreak' is on the right. Walk up the left side and start Tuna Cookies. 

  Just left of the left side of this pillar, spot a bolt perhaps 10 meters up. Make your way to this bolt and continue beyond, passing another bolt and eventually reaching the top of the pillar and the groove above it. Continue climbing up the groove on easy moves to reach the summit of the right side of the Tuna and Chips Wall and belay.  

  To walk off, go back and to the right and scramble down (5.0). 

  Like Tuna and Chips, this is a fun line and will provide good climbing for a party competent to lead it.

Gear can be placed on easy terrain before first bolt.  The route has been safely rapped with a 60m rope. Just insure your rope ends are even.

Face climb on a small dislocated boulder. Nice technical moves on crimps with good feet. A bit too short.

A good warm-up for the area while staying consistent with the minimal bolting theme.  Big holds on solid varnish get you to a high first bolt at about 25ft. Two more bolts over the next 50ft. lead to a chain anchor.

The Sierra Club Tower is the short tower found on the left-hand side of the Tuna and Chips wall.  This route has been led, but is better as a top-rope problem.  The gear is a bit thin. 

  There is a two-bolt anchor on top of the tower.  These bolts are very close to the edge and require an individual to girth-hitch runners into the bolts in order to safely build an anchor.  Carabiners clipped to these bolts would hang precariously over the edge.  

  The top of the tower is easily accessed via the ramp to the left. 

  There are a number of lines on this short tower.  They range in difficulty from 5.6 to 5.8 depending on the variation.

This climb is a fun climb. While in the book as 2 pitches, I did not find the belay to be inspiring and was climbing with a novice at the time, so I chose to run to the top, to near the end of my 70M rope. This worked well, and he didn't mind the potential rope stretch so much as the thought of hanging on small gear in soft stone. 

  From the crack which splits the center of the Tuna and Chips wall ('Tuna Cookies', 5.7) walk up and left around some shrubs for 7 meters to reach a starting point on the left side of the face with good holds... and a few bolts. Climb more or less straight up on small edges and crimps past 3 bolts to a small crack, then up and onward again to the rounded top of the wall. The belay up top is reasonably secure, but may require (if memory serves) a long cordalette or webbing if you want to sit up at the edge to watch your second. 

  This is a fun line and will provide good climbing for a party competent to lead it. For the second, be aware of rope stretch potential, but really the climbing is straightforward and simple. Both my beginner friend and I enjoyed it. 

  Edit to add:  Another user comments on the belay opportunity:   "After the last bolt it's about 20 feet to a good cam placement. Above this there is an obvious finger crack splitting the upper slab. Belay here on good medium cams and stoppers. Belay is good but semi-hanging. Stone is surprisingly good for the belay."   Whilst another adds:   "I found the belay crack very uninspiring or solid... I was pulling out loose rock around and from in the crack, and you need a lot of small gear to make it work. Ended up running the pitch together." 

  So it appears that YMMV.

This climb is a fun climb, but is a sandbag unless you wander around to find holds. The name implies and fulfills itself in this relatively water-polished line. While in the book as 2 pitches, with a fixed belay above the 'pillar' or just run all the way up in a single 70M pitch. 

  In the center of the Tuna and Chips wall there is a small tower with a crack/groove on each side. 'Tuna Cookies' is on the left and 'Waterstreak' is on the right. Walk up the right side to a darker, rounded chute and start climbing Waterstreak. 

  Climb up and past a few bolts- these are a distance apart, and the climbing between a little unobvious and insecure. Best to be on your game on this route. Continue up (getting easier now) eventually reaching the top of the pillar and the groove above it. Belay here at the anchor or continue climbing up the groove as for Tuna Cookies. The relatively easy moves to reach the summit of the right side of the Tuna and Chips Wall will be welcome with the runout.  

  Belay up top and then to walk off, go back and to the right and scramble down (5.0). 

  Like Tuna and Chips, this is a fun line and will provide good climbing for a party competent to lead it.

What can I say?  At 5.3 most will think this trivial and in fact it is well suited for a solo, date climb or neophyte first lead.  But as 5.3 routes go, it really is a pretty nice climb. 

  Locate the prominent cleft that that bisects the Tuna and Chips Wall.  Tuna & Chips goes up the left side of the wall and Tuna Cookies the right.  Chips and Salsa starts behind a large block at the bottom of the cleft at a low angle crack.  Waterstreak goes up the obvious polished feature to the right.  Face climb up the nicely featured rock along the crack to a belay where it opens into a wide chimney.  There is a bolt and drilled angle for an anchor, as Waterstreak joins here as well.  Wander up easier - and certainly less exposed - climbing in the chimney to the top. This is mostly scrambling and not much actual chimney technique is necessary.  Descend to the climbers right and down a gully.

FishBreath has its own anchor that is directly above route. use anchor of Chips Ahoy, just left of the route

first pitch is 100' rated 5.8 - 2 bolts with an anchor below the roof   second pitch is 150' rated 5.9

Long routes located at the First Pullout.

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