Walk On Water

Walk On Water climbs the awesome, blank-looking face and arete on the left margin of the

WOW

plate, P3. It's quite hard for the entire first half after which it eases to tricky .10+ to the anchor. Expect nonstop, mostly solid 5.12 right off the ledge for 45' with a technical 5.13 crux halfway through. The redpoint/endurance crux is 15' above the technical crux involving a nice dyno after moving off the arete. As for the crux itself, the hardest move is merely a matter of letting go with one hand from a fully outstretched span and snagging a micro-chip right in front of your nose. The net vertical gain is exactly 0'.

Spectacular and a little intimidating (but well protected), 'WOW-II' is highly technical and sustained, and it's definitely the hardest pitch at Empire. It's also pretty sequential and might be nearly impossible without pre-locating some crucial holds, making an onsight massively impressive.

This is on the left side of the P3 plate of

Windows on the World

.

Approach via

WOW

,

Eternal Sunshine

, or

EOA

.

Lower and rap or continue on with

WOW

.

12 bolts + anchor.