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Route SL-R-014615 · OpenBeta · trad

Threading The Needle

Trad 30 m Safety · UNSPECIFIED
Grade
2- French
YDS
5.0
Only systems recorded for this route are shown · conversions are approximate at grade boundaries

Description

**P1**: Climb face, then gully and ramp (cl.4) to two bolt belay/rap at window. **P2**: Traverse left (south) on ledges past piton, then up any number of grooves to summit (same as last pitch of The Anonymous). There are several old bolts in various places at the window ledge level. A more technical variation (orange Topo Overlay) climbs out the window on the northwest side, zigzagging to arch above and then can finish with Pseudonym's thirty-foot overhanging chimney.

First ascent

Year
1968
1968; Treiber, Weaver, Kreuser, Metcalf & Sewrey.
Source · OpenBeta

Protection

Style
Natural gear
Bolts
Length
30 m

Medium to large nuts, a few cams. South end of complex, single rope, vertical chain anchor rap west.

An easy west, then east facing route to the window and summit.