As you walk down Mee Canyon, the cheese beckons. The glorious wheel of curdled milk hovers in the sky.

Scurry up through broken cliff bands below, starting near the front face of the tower. You can make it all the way to the notch. From there, it is pretty straightforward. A few moves up a corner, a little roof that we aided could go free at 5.9+ sandy, then do some scrambling to the amazingly small summit. Marvel in the glory of the cheese and all its wonder.

Government Cheese

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This is an uninspiring route to top of a nice tower. Start on uphill side of tower.

P1. Free/aid up a short crack to a ledge on the south ridge of the tower.

P2. Free/aid up a short crack to the summit.

The rock on both pitches leaves something to be desired.

P1. Either climb the first wide pitch of Friday Night Monster Truck Rally, or go up the semi-vertical garbage cracks to the right.

P2. Aid up the obvious line, making way up a large flake system that gets better higher up. This turns into a nice wide crack system and a chossy topout move.

Begin on north side of tower at base of obvious, splitter hand crack.

P1. Climb a hand crack to the ledge at the base of a chimney.

P2. Climb into chimney, and traverse halfway through hallway. An obvious, huge, partially detached block below an offwidth is the place to start heading up. The block didn't move for me, but your mileage may vary. Chimney up using #5 and #6. At around 50', you leave the chimney and climb a splitter #4 crack for a while. The route has been excellent to here, but those days are over. Scary aid on sand for 50' gets you to the top. If a piece fails ,you'll probably get smashed into the chimney, and it would be bad.

Bring a long string of tat to sling the summit as an anchor.

This is on a rather striking little tower with a sole unfortunate line. Put in a big ol' chaw of tobaccer for this one.

Climb garbage crack to the neck. Traverse left to ledge. Mantel to the summit.

You can simul rap off this thing.

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Routes in Government Cheese Area