Perfect rock, great movement and tight bolts make this one of the best routes around.  A techy, thin crux in the first three bolts leads to 3 more bolts of pumpy 5.11, then a fun, easy finish past a couple more bolts.

War Path

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Start up a mostly finger sized crack, smearing your feet on the blue "paint-ina". Move through jams and locks past a bolt to a ledge. Climb the face above to the anchors.

Move through a tough for the grade section off of the ground past the first bolt (crux). Ascend up the wall past a crack (gear) to a bolt protected headwall at mid-height. After pulling the lip above and placing some gear, run it out to the chains up the low angle but difficult to protect slab. It would be difficult to fall on the upper slab, but the rock is somewhat similar to a cheese grater at this point and a ride down this would likely cause some discomfort.

If War Path went down easy for you, give this one a go.  Sustained, hard crimping for about 30 feet leads to a relatively easy finish.  Not unsafe, but expect to be pulling some hard, insecure moves with your feet above the previous bolt.  Another Dockin's testpiece.

A worthy variation finish to War Path.  Begin on War Path.  After the fourth bolt traverse rightward following the bolts to the top.  There is supposed to be a gear placement between the 5th and 6th bolt, but I didn't realize this when I climbed it.  It was a little airy, but the climbing wasn't terribly hard (low 5.11?).

This climb was originally graded 5.12+/5.13- by Brunckhorst, but it didn't seem much, if any, harder than War Path to me.

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