Alvin climbs the broken crack system. There are good small/medium gear placements around the short sections of the crack that get wide.

Alvin

Low Handcrack

Carter Goes to Haiti

Scream Traverse

Walk Like an Egyptian

Nixon Goes to China

Sauerkraut Shakedown

Woofer

Bergland's Crack

*Laramie Talk Show

Devil's Interval

Coercive Utopians

Dielectric Power

Montreal Steak Seasoning

Captain America's Slab

Follow the thin crack system up the slabby face.

Climb the large left facing dihederal traversing left below the large roof.

Route climbs the slabs and the flake system directly below The Sphinx.

P1, 10b, 80': Follow the arete of the detached boulder, and slab up to the benched belay.

P2, 10a, 80': Continue up the short arete or dihedral, step right and follow the hand cracks to the wide flake.

An alternate pitch 1 uses gear on the crack system to the right (10a) to reach the benched belay.

Climbs the steep finger to hand splitter crack. Unlike Vedauwoo, tape is not required.

Climbs the steep, offset hands splitter crack, which becomes a double crack system near the top.

Mind the gap, then climb straight up the thin, slabby, splitter crack. If your lucky, play-by-play commentator Dingus McGee will be there to cheer you on.

Climb the left-angling crack and face features left of the large left-facing dihedral. Begins 10' left of the dihedral, stepping left at the bolt to gain the left-angling crack.

Climb the slab of the left-facing open dihedral.

Montreal Steak Seasoning climbs the outside of the Tunnel Boulder.

P1-9+, 80', ~10 bolts: Chimney to the outside of the Tunnel Boulder, step on, highstep the overlap, and continue up the arete to anchor.

P2-7, 80', mostly gear and few bolts: Step across gap and follow the slabby crack system to anchor.

Break out your sticky rubber and hold on. The climb traverses left across the steepening slab.

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Protection

Routes in The Tunnel