Bird on a Wire, 5.10a

2nd Pitch- 150’- 510a/ This is the crux pitch of the route and what makes Bird on a Wire a “must-do 5.10 crack” selection in Miramontes guide. Follow up the steep and thin twin finger cracks through the round patch of varnish (I started on the right option). There is a move or two at the grade. Pass a fixed rap station (I can only assume what the guide book references as a “bolt” on pitch one) and continue up a thin blank corner section (crux) for a few meters and into an arching right hand crack above. Build a gear station at the top of Dapple Mare’s dihedral if no one is on that pitch or alternatively, lower in that arching hand crack before it meets up with the dihedral. Bird on a Wire, 5.10a, 3 Pitches, Lost Horse Wall, Joshua Tree National Park, December, 2011