Ride the Lightning

Ride the Lightning is a great route that suffers from less than stellar rock quality. Decent pro when you need it and bolts on the faces. The first two pitches are probably worth doing for anyone, after that I'd say only the adventurous need continue as the rock steadily gets looser as you ascend.

P1 ascend the face below the obvious roof.

P2 more face leads to a great corner.

P3 work left around the roof and up.

P4 more bolts lead you thru some questionable stone.

P5 follow cracks thru some overlaps and a couple bolts, the rock gets better again for this crux(?) pitch.

P6 head up and right on somewhat easier ground looking for a bottoming out hand crack just before you get to the gully. Belay below a large outcrop to protect the belayer on the final pitch.

P7 head up into lowangled looseness toward a small pine tree across in places piles of dinnerplate sized rocks piled who knows how deep.

We walked off climbers left past some cairns to the large obvious gully and down it with one short rap about halfway down.

Park at the well, a mile or two after you first see the wall coming from the east. the trail starts there and leads to the base.

Single rack and a dozen draws and some longer slings should do it. The first 4 belays (maybe 5) are bolted, after that its probably easier to go over the top than back down the route.