Beginning on the right side of the South Face, this route follows flakes, corners, and splitters up to the broad ledge halfway up the face. From here, walk leftward and begin the upper half of the face. The first pitch above the ledge heads up to the left side of the most prominent arete/pillar which is in the middle of upper face. After two more pitches, move rightward, and reach the summit via blocky ground to the right of the prominent chimney.

The Chalice

Playing Not Spraying

P1-4

Beginning at the base of a large clean flake, layback up the wall and follow cracks/ramps/corners rightward into a long beautiful left-facing corner. Up finger cracks through occasionally scrappy rock, then step left out of the main corner, into a smaller and cleaner corner. Atop the big corner, traverse right, below a roof, and into a beautiful splitter crack, flakes, and delicate mantle to top-out. A few shorts bits of 5.10a... mostly easier and well-protected.

From the midway ledge, begin at the toe of center of the upper face. Aim for a roof just above  small pine, and below a long right-facing corner. Pull the roof (crux) and jam up the long hand crack to a belay. Move up and rightward to a nice ledge and belay stance. Pitch 7 begins with easy laybacking on junk rock before the quality improves markedly and stemming corner leads to a hard sequence exiting the corner, and a nice ledge. The final pitch follows the deep chimney (protect well once inside) up under the summit before swinging pullups and a mantle deposit you on top.

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Routes in The Silver Horn