The positioning of this is the highlight, perched way above the road with amazing views up canyon and towards the valley. The climbing is not great, with the dihedral being less sustained than it looks from below and with crappier quartzite than most of us are use to in BCC. Good adventure if you're like me and have been looking up at this while driving down canyon and wondering...

Flying High Again

Air of Supremacy

Marginal Disbelief

Margin for Air

Air Marshal

Profit Margin

Ruckman guide calls this one a classic, looks nice.

Bolted line on the far left of the crag. Cool intro moves, then a crux, some bolts, an easy run out, then some more cool moves to the anchor. Once you know where the holds are, this is a pretty fun route.

First off, let me admit that this is a project of mine.  I have made it past the pin before the crux, but I don't think I've actually made it to the crux yet.  I fell once on a green camalot, then again on a red camalot higher up.  I took two falls on a #3 camalot past the pin, then tried to protect the next sequence with a #00 C3.  It tore out when I fell again, and I whipped upside-down and injured my heel.  Did I mention that I got stung by a wasp?  My first epic!  Needless to say, this route is continuously difficult, extremely technical, airy, exposed, long, and worth an approach twice as arduous.  Set up a belay on the shale layer and climb over a slabby face towards the bushes above the flake.  Follow the crack up and to the left around an airy bulge, and another airy bulge, and another airy bulge.  Clip a pin next to a hollow sounding flake and climb through another airy bulge.  The Ruckman guide indicates that the crux is right after this section through a steep crack (I didn't make it that far).  Once the crux is finished, you have two options, continue following the crack, or climb diagonally right to the top of the wall and set up a gear belay for your second.

Cool airy climbing on this guy. Soar through the beginning crux, and you'll be rewarded with easier (5.12) terrain up crimps and overhanging jugs to the top.

Corners and roofs up the right side of the crag.

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