White Way Direct - 5.9

One of my climbing partners wanted to climb another route and she refused to climb anything with more than one pitch so she chose this route. I was volunteered to lead. Not much else to say.

I believe this was originally the first pitch of Great White Way. The start is uphill from the Block Route and is a little bit of a scramble. It starts below some dikes and heads up slightly right past two bolts, eventually ending up beneath the Great White Way. There are many alternative paths that may be taken along the way. There is quite a bit of rock between this route and the Block route. I had to rap back down afterwards to get something and took another, unprotected line back to the top just to make it more interesting.

Alternative route to Tree Ledge. Traverse after the first bolt is not *hard*, but heady. It is hard to know how to grade routes at Stone, because it's a combination between (1) confidence and experience with your footwork on slab and (2) keeping your cool. After second bolt, I angled right to place a C4 no. 1 under the flake for a last piece of pro.

So this time we went up past the 1st bolt to the 2nd with gear (1 pc) in between , then right traverse to the tree at start of GWW. this was .9ish but I don't look foward to traverses at Stone.

Depending on the way you go, you may or may not get gear to supplement the bolts. Also, you may find the route harder or easier than 5.9. I like the path of least resistance and most protection.