Photos by cobbledik

rain = bad

I pulled this many heads from this climb on Thanksgiving week 2010 and still left enough on the climb to do it as a fixed ladder.

Follows seam right to bolt then two hook moves or 5.9 to the top.

sign at the parking lot for quarry

halfway up first pitch of 5.9 alt to Nutcracker

best catch ever.

Looking into the Grotto from the Eastern Front

Pretending to boulder inside castlerock proper.

Sign when approaching the wall.

Community chalk bag left by locals on back of same sign

Rock formation next to the chalkstone climb that looks a lot like the turtle that has a cold in the never ending story.

Route follows a seam on the right side of the wall to the right-leaning crack around the arete.

Cleaning the route on rap from the top anchors

"Egg Arete" on right, "Face on Egg" on left.

At the top of crack, route turns to face climbing on bolts and knob tie offs

This is the start of the bathooking variation that approaches the 2nd rivet from the left.

Bolt start of West Face

Bottom part of The Stigma, all nuts all day.

View of the rest of the second pitch of Stigma taken from the traversing bolts.

This is the stripped rivet that crosses the blank face between the traversing bolts and the arching seam of the 2nd pitch of the Stigma.

Left of Fembots, look for diagonal band of white rock just before the trail begins to head uphill.

Ascends obvious crack splitting face.

Ascends obvious crack splitting face.

Looking down on the "second" pitch of Stigma