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here comes batman looks sicky... ill have to go look at it sometime...

Sicky? it looks like a 5.6
Sack up folks, its only 5.11

i though 52 and ray did that thing a few years back. i know i saw a pic of hampton squeezed in there at some point.

Nah. I fell off with my hand over the top. I broke off the only hold in the flared section, and couldn't see a thing cuz I was covered in sand. You could crimp the inch deep toprope marks at the top, but I had ethics back then...

Its kind of a chosspile... or I'd have gone back. Just not worth the hike...

ethics...... i'm glad you got those taken care of.

Somewhere I was thinking that was supposed to be a good hike and like a tourist trail. Is the hike any good? I was thinking of hitting up those 5.3s, for cereal.

The hike is indeed good. Not quite as pretty as hiking to wall of denial, but prettier than most hikes.

top of the staircase and that whole ridge is really nice.

512OW wrote: You could crimp the inch deep toprope marks at the top, but I had ethics back then...

Those aren't toprope marks, they are grooves from rappellers pulling the rope. It is really too bad what rapellers and tourons have done to this area since the FS bought the farm at the mouth of Gladie Creek and built the visitors center, etc. The sand is from increased erosion along the top of the ridge from overuse. There was also a forest fire up there a few years back.

It didn't used to be that way when the farm was there and there was limited parking and access.

Baxters
Minor Dihedral on Haystack
North Ridge of Steeple Peak

That's about all i'll have time for before winter hits, then it'll be some prime backcountry skiing in the winds and hoback and teton pass.