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Description
This climb starts where "Somebody's Got to Do It" ends.
History - According to Webster, (2nd Ed. 1986) the FA was made with one bolt just above the flake and stepped "right into a small depression" and then made "hard moves back left on a faint dike to the last bolt of [Helmet's] bolt ladder."
Presently above the flake there are 3 closely spaced bolts that lead directly up, sort of parallel to Helmet's bolt ladder and 15-20 ft right of it. Above these there's 2 or 3 more bolts) that lead to an independent 2 bolt anchor. I suspect these upper 3-5 bolts are the top of O-Town Brown's P1, the climb whose lower section climbs the bolted Left-facing corner between "Helmut" and "Polish".
P1 - From the Shine Your Helmet's P1 anchor [or top of "Somebody's Got To Do It"] , move to an obvious flake; up this to the small horizontal at its top. (Beware the blueberries which might totally hide the horizontal! The vegitation further right may not be supported by rock!) Clip the bolt and step right to the depression (now with some lichen) and then step back left and up past bolts (5.9+ / 5.10a ? ). Continue up and very slightly right passing 2-3 more bolts to a double bolt anchor. 120-125 ft from ground, 5.9+ / 5.10a? , the climb can just barely be TR'ed with a full-length 70m rope.
Protection
draws, maybe a 0.5 or 0.75 Camalot for the crack in the flake
Routes in 1. Main Slab
- 4Polish the Monkey (mid-cliff START)5.9Sport