Mardi Gras starts on the right side of the wall, next to a wide, right-slanting crack.  Head straight up to the bulging overlap.  Pull the bulge and continue up and right on solid holds, sometimes jugs, sometimes thin.  Balance and footwork is the key.  At the smooth patina face, find a few key holds and crank through.  Finish up and left over soft knobs and dishes (what I considered to be the crux) to reach the anchor.  Rappel to descend.

Mardi Gras

Blue Bayou

When the Levee Breaks

The Big Easy

French Quartered

Bourbon Street

Starts about five feet right of When the Levee Breaks.  Work up and right to a bulge.  Pull the crux on solid holds and continue up and right.  Near the top of a right-slanting crack head straight up through a secondary crux to reach the anchor.  While Bourbon Street feels a little easy for the grade, it incorporates a variety of technique; this one is fun all the way to the top!  Rappel to descend.

Short but sweet.  Blue Bayou starts on a block to the right of the gully.  Work up to the first clip.  The crux is a series of delicate and exposed moves from the first to second bolts.  Continue up on larger holds to the anchor, shared with French Quartered.  Although short, this climb provides many nice moves at grade and requires some thought.  Rappel to descend.

Start up the fractured rock on the left side of the east face, working up to a small dihedral.  Work up and left past a bolt and then follow the bolt line up and right as the frequency of holds diminishes.  The crux comes at the final bolt, passing a vertical section on thin holds, then on to a slabby finish to gain the anchor.  Rappel to descend.

Jam or lieback the right-facing corner past a wedged block that moves a little and finish up balancy face moves staying independent of

Blue Bayou

.

Can be led by merging left to join

Blue Bayou

for it's upper half to the anchors.

Start to the right of the wide, right-slanting crack.  Parallel the crack on small holds, working up and right through the crux to top out on a small pillar.  Walk across the gully to a headwall.  The psychological crux comes while stepping out into the exposure of the headwall, protected by the fourth bolt.  Continue up over easier ground to the anchor, sheared with Blue Bayou.  Rappel to descend.

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Routes in Katrina Wall