Me on the second pitch of Flower of High Rank at Suicide Rocks. Photo by Olin.

Organizing, resting, clinging by my teeth... what a multitasker! Photo by Olin.

A periodically flaring 5.8 crack with a difficult start located about 70 ft left of "The Plague." Protect the top of the vertical crack with a small nut or two before climbing 10 feet to the bomber right horizontal crack. Good nut or small cam placements possible at the right tip of the hort crack before 5.6 face climbing to a pair of anchoring trees. This route can also be top roped by walking up from the left base of the Wailing Wall.

Upon exiting the vertical crack, several small but solid foot and hand holds help you find your way to the horizontal crack 10 feet above. Underclinging the horizontal crack and moving to the right tip (with a solid handhold) before placing gear is an efficient way to traverse this section.

A photo of the route up the Hernia. Two anchors up top with a 100 ft rap.

The crux is easily protected a with mid-size Camelot (#2?) underneath and to the left of the overhang, and a small Alien (0.75?) or Camelot to right side. The crux can be approached by lie-backing the right side of the crack and placing the left foot inside, or going straight up the center! It's easy climbing above the overhang with a couple nice cam placements in the crack.

A fun finger crack with 30' of 1/2 inch jamming. Anchors and a comfortable belay ledge at the top. Two 20 ft slings attached to the anchors will prevent rope drag.

Climb up and left over the jagged rock fissures. About seven feet above the top-most ledge, will be a horizontal crack. Traverse this right about 15ft until reaching a vertical shoot. Upon exiting the shoot, traverse right over to the large pine tree to set up a belay station. The red dot in the photo denotes the crux.

Easily accessible slab for face climbing practice. Climb the 5-1 crack at the right side over and on top of the tree (rather than going left and ducking underneath the branches) to reach the TR anchors.

Photo by Justin Sallows, Brian Boyd climbing. Circa 1989.

This is the view of Suicide from Lunch Rock at Tahquitz

Unknown climber making his way up Etude. One of these days I would like to get on that, but it will not be any time soon.

5.6 three star great fun route steep trad with huge holds and some off width that seems really scary when your friends start yelling "you passed the bolts", and you have no gear left.

Traditional crack climbing up and over a small roof.

Great catching Alia - thanks! Maybe next time we'll leave the big stuff till it's a little cooler. Duh! Who's idea was it anyway? Awesome route - thin, thin and really thin. But it is there - thankfully so is the gear. Not that placing it's easy.

This is me after pushing hard through the roof on Flower of Higher Rank in Suicide.

This is me working out the moves to Flakes of Wrath in Suicide. I am entering a strenous layback section with polished feet. Photo by AJ Burch!

Here I am in the layback on Flakes of Wrath in Suicide. Slippery feet make you over grip the holds and get super pumped. Photo by AJ Burch!

Here I am about to place pro on Flakes of Wrath. I fell just a little higher. Photo by AJ Burch!

This is my buddy Kia entering an area of huge exposure on Flower of Higher Rank in Suicide. Here he is going into the perfect handcrack/layback to an intimidating roof. Photo by AJ Burch!

My buddy on the upper half of Flower of Higher Rank. Here he is chalking up before the final charge through the roof. Photo by AJ Burch!

We all know the feeling...almost had the onsite. Here is my buddy's reaction after a slip on Flower of Higher Rank. Bummer... Photo by AJ Burch!

Some times you just need a snack to get you up the climb. Well Dave needed one on Serpentine.

Another look at Flower of Higher Rank. It is a little closer look at.

Top of the second pitch of Serpentine. One of the 3 star climbs there a Suicide Rock.