Iron Messiah, III, 5.10c

1st Pitch - 5.9+/

Sport Route!? Yes, you start off on one of the finer free climbs in Zion with five pins (I only saw two more the entire route) up a varnish face. Don’t let appearances fool you on this one; this is a very pumpy sport lead on crimpy varnish. You bounce back and forth, left to right and vice versa on a sustained, but relatively short first pitch. I passed the station at the top left to combine the first two pitches which worked well with good double rope management. Iron Messiah, III, 5.10c, Spearhead, Zion National Park, June, 2007