This short face climb has one poorly located bolt, resulting in a bad runout on the crux move.

Jigsaw

Burning Down the House

Question of Balance

Cheap Day Return

This is the thin face climb left of

Jigsaw

(5.10a R), running up the center of the Sunkist Face. Three bolts protect tenuous 5.12 moves, with a bit of runout 5.10 climbing above.

Begin with the hairline crack on the far left side of the wall.  Climb the crack (10a), then diagonal up and right (10c) as soon as possible to a bolt.  From the bolt wander up the face (easy runout) to the top.

Like all of the routes on this face, the climbing is characterized by small, very polished holds.

Take care on the summit.  There is an unbelievable amount of small loose stuff around just waiting to be knocked off.

Actually quite a good route.  A little different as it yields challenging face climbing (11b) that ends up being a bit on the runout side due to the difficulty of placing small gear (RP's, etc...) in the very, very thin crack.  It may follow a thin crack but it's really face climbing for all intents and purposes. And of course, once again, it's on disconcertingly slick rock.

At the end of the hairline crack one is naturally taken onto the top section of Question of Balance.  Finish on the runout top section of that route.

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Routes in (q) Sunkist Face