Excellent, Smithers 5.10a

Climbed the route August 1st. Fun route, totally worth doing. Only problem was the .10a corner crack on the second pitch. On the topo it shows 2 fixed pitons in the upper part of the corner, but they were not there today. It wouldn't be such a problem except that corner crack flares/overhangs to the point it is hard to get anything else wedged in there that looks solid enough to hold a fall. Also, it works best to layback a bit making it hard to actually look around the corner to see how poorly your gear is set. Maybe some small offset cams would work? Anyway, it got more exciting than anticipated. I ended up face climbing around that crux on some very nice 5.8-ish knobs just to the right of the crack, but that was run out and left me with a ticklish leftward and downward traverse to get back on route.