Wind Tunnel

This route is in a non-descript area of the West Ridge between

Handcracker Direct

and Practice Climb 101. Rossiter describes it as 'good in parts', the beginning is good, but contrary to the paper book, I'd give it a serious rating. There is little gear at the bottom, and ground fall potential exists from quite high.

Start at the bottom of a nice looking slab with a ledge 10 feet up or so. Climb the slab, I wiggled in two RPs and got a funny Alien placement. Then climb up and left a bit on improving holds. You'll see a mess of slings above you. Pass these and continue through short steps with plenty of choss atop each ledge. Lots of belay options exist.

Do a funny traverse across a block to a neat dihedral then climb some mungy thing to the top.

There are three trees with rap slings on them. The first rap is short, the second is exactly 100'. With a 50 m rope you'll downclimb.

Fun for the adventure, but not classic by any means.

Standard rack to 3", include a couple RPs.