Basket Case

This route starts out encouragingly enough in an attractive, varnished corner that entices one upward through deteriorating rock until the leader is left reliant on marginal gear, talking to himself, and 100% clear on the significance of the route name.

P1. *** Well worth doing. Reachy shenanigans off the ground in the vicinity of a drilled pin gain access to the varnished corner. Mostly hands and big hands, ~150', drilled anchor w/webbing etc.

P2. * Worth doing really only if you're going to summit. Hard bombay squeeze (new #5 Camalot) in nice varnish leads to crumbling handsiness, wideness, etc. to a similar fixed anchor atop a pillar, ~100'. Consider strongly the virtue of rappelling from this point.

P3. [bomb icon] Ignoring the filthy corner to the left, step down and around the corner you just came up, heading for a drilled pin on the shoulder of the right-facing corner. Make your way to the top through wildly variable rock and protection, and don't even think about falling on the wiggly angle. Maybe 120'.

Hike to the summit and rappel Aging Salesman.

Varnished corner with drilled angle about 15' up, right of Wild Flower and left of the Aging Salesman.

Mostly hands and big hands, but cover the bases.