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Summary

The gully up and right of Morning Glory Wall. Access by scrambling up the left side of the gully via some easy boulders and a steel rung. Great vertical and sustained crimp/nubbin-fest style climbs.

Description

Great sustained climbing, most come up here for Vomit Launch (11b) but there are several other classics on both sides of the gully. The west-facing (Vomit Launch) wall gets shade until about midday, then the east-facing (Bloodshot) wall gets shade all afternoon.

A stick clip is recommended, as most of the routes here have quite high first bolts in a steep gully so a fall from below the first would be consequential to say the least.

Approach

Via scrambling up the boulders and one stainless staple on the left side of the gully. The right side scramble is currently closed due to rockfall. Descent: There is a new rap station on a boulder near where you pop out of the climb up. Rap off, the downclimb is a bit dicey and loose.

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A diverse route that starts with a hard boulder sequence (crux) on edges, and finishes on knobs, pockets and arete moves.

Just uphill from Freebase, this route is great fun on little pinchers. If you enjoyed Chicken McNuggets, you'll enjoy this one. It's a nice test of strategic resting - bad rhythm will get you all pumped out. Expect it to be pleasantly stiff for the grade.

A Smith classic with bomber, vertical stone and excellent, consistently engaging and committing climbing. After a mid-height technical crux this route turns to sweet reaches between incut crimps. The good climbing seems to go on forever!

Stick clip the first, a fall from here would be a catastrophic tumble down a rocky gully.

There is a bolt in the wall for the belayer to clip into - strongly recommended (a couple extra slings and carabiners will make this a bit easier)

FA: Dan Goodwin, 1987

A classic 5.11 pump-a-thon. A stick-clip is recommended to clip the first bolt to protect the insecure and overhanging first moves. The climbing is steep and consistent with a crux coming in the middle, but the pump combined with an odd finger-crack sequence will send many climbers for a ride near the top.

Tough lie back to start then soe excellent Smith Rock nubbin climbing. There is a loose hold below the first bolt, so be careful if you have not stick clipped.

FA: Tom Heins & Pete Keane, 1991

Classic Smith Rock nubbin climbing. Very similar to Chicken McNuggets to the left.

FA: Tedd Thompson & Will Nazarian, Oct 2016

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Date: 2019

ISBN: 9780999723326

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