Start from a gold-colored bolt atop a pedestal on the left side of the wall.

P1: 11b. Bouldery start up clean rock (5.11b) then turns to fourth class for the second half of the pitch.

P2: 11b. Start in a finger crack, then pull left around a corner to friable face climbing past two bolts (5.11b). This is the lowest quality pitch on the route.

P3: 5.9. Finger crack to face moves past a bolt (the last on the route) and back into splitter hands to the base of the obvious black corner on the left side of the headwall.

P4: 10b. Corner crack with small to large gear.

P5: 10c. Leave the right corner of the left overhang through a hand crack that then angles left through an undercling to the top. Superb.

Tour of Duty

Tales From Zahajko

Coach's Fables

Jonah Benkert's World Famous Homemade Humble Pie

Front Line Assignment

An alternate last pitch for Tour of Duty.

Exit the left side of the overhang, go past three bolts, then up a finger crack.

P1: 11b. Start up "Whipnatize" (5.11b), then climb fourth class to a bolted face leading to a large treed ledge (5.10a).

P2: 10c. A fun sport pitch on jugs leads to a hanging belay below a triangular roof.

P3: 11c. Climb up and right from the belay with one 11c move to get onto the headwall. Continue to a small ledge belay to the right of the lone tree on the headwall.

P4: 11b. Climb a discontinuous crack to a two-tree ledge. There is an open project to the left of this pitch.

P5: 11c. The fifth pitch uses gear in a crack to start then traverses left under a roof to a flare with bolts to the top.

Starts as a variation finish to the third pitch of "Tales From Zahajko".

P1: From midway up P3 of Tales, traverse right to the left overhang of the right set of "eyes" on the headwall.

P2: 11d. Climb out a flare to thin face climbing past bolts and two pins in a discontinuous crack to a belay. This with the headwall pitches of "Humble Pie" and perhaps the last pitch of "Tour of Duty" are the best pitches on the wall.

P3: 10a. Climb up a knobby overhanging block past a bolt to easier gear climbing through ledges and roofs to the top.

The first pitch is the same as "Tour of Duty". To repeat that info:

Start from a gold-colored bolt atop a pedestal on the left side of the wall.

P1: 11b. Bouldery start up clean rock (5.11b) then turns to fourth class for the second half of the pitch.

P2: 11b. Also a bouldery start. Go under an overhang then up to the right side of an obvious boulder to a large belay.

P3: 10b. Scale the black pillar to the base of the headwall.

P4: 11c. Here the fun really starts. 11c face climbing on an otherwise blank wall leads to a belay in an alcove.

P5: 10b. Moderate climbing to a ledge that then traverses right (5.10b) on a large rail to a belay on a large ledge with two trees. Here you can join the last pitch of "Tales From Zahajko" or rappel.

Every pitch on this route is good.

Tour of Duty

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