The Great Red Book,Trad, 250 ft, 2 pitches, 5.8

The Great Red Book does not fall short to living up to its title. A solid 5.8 trad route with two bolted belay stations. The first pitch veers up a ledge and right following a crack system that looks off width but has solid finger holds. All ya need to do is lean back and hang on jamming up the headwall while following hand over hand along the crack until it becomes too thin to fit any fingers in. Continue up and on this course of direction will soon become 5.9 territory. Take a sudden left before body jamming yourself in the open cave to maintain the direct 5.8 route to the belay station. Gear placement is plentiful with one last surprise move up the face before the bolts.

Pitch two rides the finger crimp of a flat wall for twenty feet under the massive red shelf until finding the jug crack, lean way back and jam those feet. Cruise to the top and enjoy the flow.

Then check the view.

Do not rappel this route. A memorial is etched into the rock at the first belay station for Randal Grandstaff, who fell to his death on the Great Red Book in June 2002.