The best climbing in the clearcoat area, but by far the worst landing. Start with hands in chunky opening on the left face. Swing/slap up to an edge around the right side of the face. Heel hook wide right to allow you to pinch the polished arete and then bump your right hand to a bad 2 finger uncut edge. Open those hips and get a high foot to stand up.

Clearcoat Arete

Clearcoat Cut

Clearcoat direct

Clearcoat Left

Trout Erection

Commitment Issues

Start matched on the large ledge that is the left hand start of Clearcoat Arete. Keep to the right of the crack. Do 3 or 4 small moves up small negative crimps and gun it for the top. Top move is scary, and may be harder for smaller climbers.

Tiny negative holds until you hit the crack, and then they're still tiny. Be careful as you tend to lean right near the top and a fall could be very very bad if not protected right.

Climb up the left side of the clearoat face. Big chunky holds lead to a sloped topout. Topout probably the crux.

Contrived sit start that shares a finish with "Clearcoat Arete". Start with hands on large triangular ledge and high feet. Work up and left on small but mostly positive edges and top out near the arete.

Stand start with a hand on a big crimp/edge and one on the separated but still solid small block in the seam.  Work up on good feet and hands to a juggy edge shrouded in ferns: this is the commitment point. Work some slightly high feet up (you better trust them) and make a reachy move up over the next block to another juggy edge, and then repeat that sequence to the final jutting out edge. Walk off the slabby topout of clearcoat face to the left. Careful, that topout slab is more slippery than it looks. 

This is the slick face of rock facing the creek. Its pretty much always shaded, and the rock is decent quality. However the landings are anywhere from bad to awful. They could be made better if a team got in there to move some large rocks, but regardless most problems on this are 2 pad minimums in my opinion.

Clearcoat Arete

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Routes in Clearcoat Face