Pine Valley Peak, 5.5

Continue up easy ground protecting via another bush (I trust the bushes more than the rock here) and gain the left side of a chimney. Again, nothing but compacted sand, so be light footed as you ascend the left side of this chimney and then traverse back left across a slab and move up right past a large tree with a new rap sling (we placed in 2007). I knocked a decent part of this chimney off without full body weight. Take care on this short section. Continue up to even a larger tree to bring up the 2nd on belay. Pine Valley Peak, Zion National Park, May, 2007