Cheap Date

This is a great finger crack on par with

J-Crack

or

Loose Ends

. It starts left of the Cave and makes a great finish to climbs on the right side of the Book. If linked with

Fat City Crack

, it makes arguably the best 5.10 climb at Lumpy Ridge. The wall left of the Cave contains several crack lines. Cheap Date is the left-leaning, left fork of a prominent thin system.

Start about twenty feet below the Cave, and climb up and slightly left on engaging steep flakes and thin cracks (micro-nuts are helpful) to a rest stance at the fork (5.9). This part is just the warm-up, but it's damn fun in its own right. From the stance, take the left branch (crux) with excellent gear is usually placed from poor stances (the right fork is Final Chapter 5.11). Belay on a sloping ledge, then scramble off or hand traverse left to the overhanging crack of

Outlander

, which is 5.10d.

Rack up to a #2 Friend with 2x blue & yellow TCUs; bring a #3 Friend to finish on

Outlander

.