The beautiful grey streak at the top of the wall is enough to tempt just about anyone off the ground and onto the wall. The line takes a straight shot up excellent rock with magnificent climbing the entire way. The climbing tackles mostly overhanging terrain and is quite physical. Not a lot of tic tacking your way up. Don’t let the pitch count fool you. The pitches are long and bring you nearly to the same height as the neighboring 7 pitch route, The Tall Storey.
Descent
Make four double rappels to reach the ground. Rappelling pitch 4 and pitch 3 will require back-clipping in order to stay close enough to reach the next rappel station.
Pitch 1 5.12d
16 bolts (47m)
Climb up and over a low ledge and into a right facing corner. From the top of the corner the climbing gets hard and fingery with little in the way of feet for two bolts before better hold reappear. After the crux enjoy really great climbing up nicely featured yellow and grey rock with the occasional small cruxy move thrown in.
Pitch 2 5.11b
8 bolts (25m)
A short connector pitch with good holds and good climbing that leads to a ledge and belay.
Pitch 3 5.12c
15 bolts (40m)
Get your burl on and make big pulls while climbing through yellow overlaps to a roof where one last big move secures a rest above. After resting trend left through some still tricky face climbing to one last roof pull before easier climbing above and the anchor.
Pitch 4 5.13b
17 bolts (44m)
Simply put, this is a stunning pitch! Follow a beautiful grey streak through several perfect crux sequences separated by good rests. A final heartbreaking crux through the last and largest roof guards the anchor and victory.
