Timex

This is a long, moderate, inconsistent, and adventurous route up a buttress left of The Amphitheater and right of The Nose.

There's a lot of rock up here, and the beta below is for just one possible option. Take whatever line looks best to you.

Pitch 1 - 5.5, 40 m

Start just left of a lone juniper tree and climb up the tan rock buttress. The steeper section toward the start of the pitch is 5.5/5.6ish, and the rest is easier. Belay from a tree (above the one that you can see part of from the base).

Pitch 2 - 5.2, 60 m

Climb up the solid, gray, crimpy face to the large, sloping dirt ledge with tufts of plants on it. Belay halfway up the sloping ledge at some cracks on the far left side/corner of the ledge.

Pitch 3 – 5.7, 55 m

Head up the rest of the dirt ledge and gingerly climb up shattered, broken blocks to a large ledge system.

Pitch 4 – 5.4, 30 m

Climb the very short red wall above the belay and set up the next belay from one of the trees or large boulders on top of the cliff band.

Pitch 5 – 5.5/5.6, 50 m

Climb up the nice-looking red buttress/rib above the belay. The buttress has an obvious fist crack splitting a small roof near the top. Either climb the crack or skirt around it on good holds to the left.

Move the belay ~75 feet up and to the right to the base of a jagged hand crack.

Pitch 6 – 5.7, 65 m

The crux pitch and the best pitch on the route. Climb up the fun jagged hand crack and then into a left-facing corner with a roof near the top. Keep going and belay to the right near the crest of the ridge/buttress.

Pitch 7 – 5.6, 40 m

Climb up the ridge toward a small roof with a large crack below it. Climb on steep rock left of the roof on great holds.

Pitch 8 – Easy 5th, 40 m

Continue up over 4th class boulders and the occasional steeper 5th class step.

See the descent beta on the main page for The Mezzanines.

Park at the Douglas St. trailhead. (There's a good view of the entire route from the sign at the trailhead.) Hike up the main trail that starts at the south end of the cul-de-sac. Follow the trail across the canal road and then up to a sign trail intersection. Follow the Bonneville Shoreline Trail north from here and note the talus slope coming down from near the base of the route. This is the talus slope you're going to eventually be heading up to the base of the route. When you get to roughly below the slope, you'll see a large grayish-brown blob of a rock a few hundred feet above where you are on the trail. Leave the trail here and make your way left of the blob rock and up to the talus slope. Hike up the slope to a dark-colored cliff with a dike running through it. Skirt around this cliff on the left and then make your way up to the top of the cliff by moving back right. Timex starts here on the cream-colored buttress/apron. There is a prominent juniper tree just right of the start of the route.

Approach time is 45 minutes to 1 hour.

Micro cams, 1.5 set of cams to #3, set of nuts, lots of slings