Flash Dihedral (Rossiter Version?)

This route lies on the first Elephant, and in that respect alone is a lonely route- I've never seen anyone else on it, and after having done it, would not recommend bothering with it. The route, according to Rossiter climbs an "obvious" dihedral on the NW aspect of the buttress. From the base and from along the way, the only really obvious dihedral looked like a log-jam of rock and dirt through an OW. I headed up nonetheless. Once there, I confirmed the junky dihedral appearance and instead headed up obvious handcracks just right of this dihedral. The line climbed Ok and protected pretty well on finger-to-hand sized gear and was loads more fun than the bomb-line in the dihedral. I strongly suspect that the original line is actually in these compelling cracks, not in the dihedral itself. The rock was quite rough and dirty from a lack of traffic. To descend, walk off the back the the East, then north and back west between the Elephants and The Dome towards the pipe (5 min).

A standard set of nuts and cams.