Stargazing

A fun, albeit grungy climb on the Observatory. It could use a lot of cleaning (of dirt, pine needles, lichen, and friable rock), but is still worth doing.

Stem, lie back, and jam up the corner in a dirty crack (crux), then move right and up across a face to a left-facing, left-slanting dihedral. Smear feet on the licheny face and jam/lie back the crack at right to a good ledge. A nice 10 foot hand and finger crack on the right brings you to the top, where you can set up a belay.

Descent: Walk 60 feet left (west) along the top of the rock to anchors at the top of

Skin Mechanic

. Rap ~80-90 feet, looking for anchors on a ledge off to the climber's right. Another ~70 foot rap brings you to the ground.

Stargazing starts at the bottom of a lie back crack at the top of a pedestal. Start left of

Original Route

and the large crack of

Mineral Secretion

in the next corner over. Look for an orange, lichen covered face right of the crack start.

Gear to #4 Camalot.