Touch Of Death (Way Of The Fang)

Way Of The Fang starts under the overhang on the north side of Thelonious Monk. Start on a matched corner and get feet wherever. Work a few power moves before doing a pit viper crimp into a slot far right. Work the line to the obvious scoop that leads to the platform above. Breath easy when you hit the boxy mantle jug!Pink line in Topo.

North overhung face of Thelonious Monk in The Jazz Workshop which is just 270 yds south of Lower Mount Scott.--Park at LMS and head down to the crag. Follow the wall to the south for 270 yds and pass a talus slope with vines. Continue and notice the rock size increasing and features showing up. Follow the animal trails to a cave overhang and a ramp that leads to Thelonious Monk in 5’ and then 10’ south of that rock you will see The Jazz Workshop founder, Charles Mingus.A more direct approach is to park at LMS and walk downhill to where the next guardrail starts. Count 7 posts and jump the rail. There should be a drainage culvert there. Scramble downhill and you should end up in the viney talus slope or just south of it. Continue south a few minutes and you will find The Jazz Workshop.On either approach if you look east to the lake you will see a cove with a sandbar extending from its northern shore. If that northern shore is south of you, you are north of Mingus. If it is north of you you are south of Mingus. If it is directly even with you and mount scott you’re right there.

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