This Lowe family testpiece, has seen few repeats.  The casual looking splitter sports shallow, flaring jams with virtually no footholds and is much steeper than it looks!  Surmount the first crux bulge with desperate slaps and jams; the upper crux involves insecure climbing through the awkward flare with a good crack in the back.  A large hold at the crux may have fallen off sometime between 1986 and 2002, so the rating may feel very sand bagged.  Fortunately, the gear on this one is bomber.

Pass or Flail

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I Got Stripes

Monkey Wrench

Black hangard route follows a prominent seam up the black face left of Pass or Flail.  A powerful move at the second bolt and an exposed dyno at the top punctuate this route.  Unfortunately theres a band of bad rock at the start, otherwise it would be 3 stars.

Chris Grijalva route with black hangars works up easy rock onto a blunt arête.  Theres a desperate crimper move at the very top.  Very exposed!

This striking line, envisioned by Brent Hadley climbs up a bottoming seam that splits a black varnished wall.   Desperate moves on excellent rock get harder as you get higher.  Some of the bolts are in strange spots.

Not shown on photo, this route starts ten feet to the right and around the corner from #30.  The moves on this beautiful piece of stone come at you hard right off the deck.  Pass the crux with a big dyno to a big jug or small sidepulls to a ledge.  The route quickly eases above the 2nd bolt where it joins Monkey Wrench.

A small section of loose rock at the bottom is the only thing tainting this gem.  The rest of the rock is perfect and yields varied climbing and fun moves.  Beware, if you try for the on-sight: there are some long, blind reaches on this one.

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