Spaceshot - A1 popular

The route is in the sun most of the day. Can be climbed all winter if it is sunny out.

I wish I would have taken a liter of water per pitch. Temps were in the 90s and I was the only one on any walls. I set up the ledge at the hanging belay on P4. I didn't like how close the crack resembled Touchstone. Instead of thinking "What piece of gear would work best..?" I found myself saying "Wow, that scar was made by a #1 cam, and above it is a scar made by a brown camp tricam, and then a #5 nut above it,.. and...." Not too much creativity. It became more of a guessing match to see what the previous 500 climbers used at that spot. That said, many placements weren't good any more. Too eroded.
Take a lot of nuts the more off sets the better.

only brought 1 bd red and 1 bd green. whoops...

Bring four #2 Camalots, and spend them wisely, if you want to free climb p7. It's a perfect, gently overhanging handcrack with a sting right at the very top. ~5.10c/d.

The visitor center has a great topo available by (if memory serves correctly) Colleen Frindl from 2002. Much, much better than the one in Bjornstad book.

The first rap off the big tree can be done with a single 60m rope. The rest are double rope raps as per Colleen's topo.

Climbed up to somewhere below the high ledge and did a hammock bivi on day one. Then, for no apparent reason other than a total psych-out (and no, nothing bad had happened, just somehow mysteriously "not into it") we climbed one more pitch in the morning and then rapped the route without topping out. I think we may have heard horror stories about the descent from the summit or something. But as John Long has written, you don't really need much of an excuse to quit on a wall--even an easy one like this. A great route, though, and I regret not finishing it--yet, anyway.