Another of many classic difficult Skinner/ Piana lines, and Paul & Todd's last first ascent together in the hills. Clip a good looking piton and make thuggy and fun moves complete with slopers and lay backing until the thin crux at bolt two. Pull the nothing crimps and relax as the route eases up until the summit. At bolt four either go straight up following clean holds or bail right to some dirty knobs for a slightly easier finish. Rappel off the side of the formation facing the road; if toproping bring long slings as the hardware is on the opposite side of the rock as you may want it to be. Paul gives the route two stars, try it and see what you think.

End Game

End Pin

A great route, but a rough intro as a first route in the needles. It requires great faith in the friction here.   Climb up the East Face cracks past a bit of gear and a pin, reaching a bolt. Get into a good stance and figure your way past a bulge just below a second bolt, you may or may not decide to place a micro-cam in a little constriction below a slick fingerlock entering the crux. I placed it. My partner did not. Then again, I caught a few hefty falls due to that too... I think it would hold a fall.  Anyway, it is a little in the way of the climbing.  COmplete the crux, reach over and clip the second bolt, then proceed on pretty good holds and easier moves (5.8+?) to the top, but probably pumped.

This Pin is in the Ten-pins area and is perhaps closest to the parking on the edge of the hair-pin turn. Look back to the West and see an obvious, squat pin in the middle of the valley down West, between the two less distinguished walls. The East face, directly in view, holds one excellent route that gets afternoon shade on the route and at the base.

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