Ascent Notes for: Unfinished Monkey Business - 5.11c Average Rating : 4.50/5

Fun route. Broken sidepull at the start made the beta different at least. Manage the pump to the anchors.

fun route! felt 11a or soft 11b (concurred by partner's onsight)

I really love this route, the movement is so natural. You seem to be just flowing along and then you hit the section where you are no longer traversing but going vertically up and the pump hits you...great, fun climb

This is one of my favorite climbs because of the movement on the serpentine natural line that goes up the cliff. When this phase of NS opened in early 2009 I spotted the alignment of 2 holes (softball and baseball sized) preceded by a sausage-shaped pocket below them. I knew there was a line, it just wasn't a straight line below them (I even had 5.13 specialist Long Ta give it a direct try, but it even shut him down). The natural line starts in a sequence of pockets off the deck and moves right to a flake then diagonally right again to the pocket alignment mentioned above.

The name comes a few factors: 1) It took a long time to develop since I installed anchors in early summer but it proved to be too hot, still and muggy to complete until well into autumn. 2) I felt like I was making monkeying moves up the wall. 3) I really like Ian Brown's album of the same name.