Eight pitches of slab climbing, mostly bolted but with some trad sections.
Approach
40 minutes at a slow pace, 25 minutes at a quick pace. Super mild approach! There’s an actual hiking trail, it’s not a climbers trail! Follow the trail till it connects to the base of the wall (where Silent Running starts), and then walk left along the wall ~100 ft till just before the wall goes into a gully, and you’ll notice the first two bolts!
Gear
- Singles #0.3-2
- 12 draws (7 sport, 5 single alpine)
- No nuts
- Double 60m ropes for rappelling (single 70m doesn’t work)
- All anchors are bolted except final top tree anchor (double length sling fits around it)
Pitches
P1 – 5.6, 30m, 3 bolts
Climb a low angle short pitch past 3 bolts to a stance above a refrigerator block.
P2 – 5.9, ~45m, 4 bolts
Uses gear. Gear protected climbing past flakes leads you over a small roof to a few bolts and a slippery white dike.
Start of P2 
Before the roof bulge 
Above the roof bulge 
End of P2
P3 – 5.8, 35m, 5 bolts
Step left at the belay and friction climb your way directly past 5 bolts.
Start of P3 
End of P3
P4 – 5.9, ~45m, 6 bolts
Uses gear, save your #1 cam till near end of P4. Some friction moves lead to a long featured crack protected by bolts and gear.
Midway up P4 
End of P4
P5 – 5.10a, 35m, 8 bolts
Undercling and friction climb your way to the second bolt then traverse left (easy ledgey traverse), follow more bolts over a small roof and through some fun flakes to a large and comfy ledge
Start of P5 
End of P5
P6 – 5.10b, 40+m, 8 bolts
Climb a flake to more friction slab! Follow the bolts through a few roofs and a couple bouldery sequences. A very fun pitch.
First half of P6 
P6 crux 
P6 crux 
End of P6 
End of P6
P7 – 5.8, ~45m, 5 bolts, pretty run out
Uses gear. Climb up and left from the belay to a bolt. Mantle over the roof and continue into the right facing corner. Keep trending up and left following bolts and corners until you reach two bolts connected by old webbing.
Start of P7 
Halfway up P7, trend up and slightly left following bolts
P8 – 5.10b, 28m, 6 bolts
A short, tightly bolted pitch. Go left from the belay and battle steep slopey knobs until you find yourself at the summit. Belay from the big tree.
Start of P8 
End of P8
Top
There’s actually nice spots to sit up top!
Top! 
Descent
Two 60’s or two 70’s are required to rappel (several rappels are 40-45m).
In order to avoid a slanting rappel (since P7 traverses a bit), the ideal rappel route is to scramble climbers right 10 feet from the top of P8 and then scramble bushwack downhill ~20 ft to the edge of treeline (kinda steep, butt slide down while self-belaying on bushes). On skiiers right, you’ll find a bolted rap anchor on the cliff face on a nice ledge (there’s also a tree that’s slinged about 5 feet skiiers left, might as well use the bolted anchor though).
- R1 (~45m): Double rope rappel from bolted anchor at treeline to top of P6
- R2 (40+m): Double rope rappel P6
- R3 (35m): Single 70m rope rappel P5 (or double 60m)
- R4 (~45m): Double rope rappel P4 (if have double 70m, one person reported combining R4 and R5)
- R5 (35m): Single 70m rope rappel P3
- R6 (60m): Double rope rappel from P2 to gully (swing climbers left).
Reports
Total Soul 2022
A challenging and sustained slab climb, decently well protected, pretty clean route! Bringing double ropes for the rappel was annoying though. Love the approach though! I got it clean except for one fall on P5. I surprised myself on getting some of the slabby moves! Gear brought Singles #0.3-2 – Worked perfectly, used all of…
Plans
Total Soul 2022
Itinerary 5:00 AM – Drive to Squire Creek Pass Trailhead (1:45 hours) 6:50 AM – Arrive at trailhead 7:00 AM – Hike in (40 mins) 7:40 AM – Base of climb 8:00 AM – Climbing (8 pitches, 25 min/pitch, 3:20 hours) (51 degrees and partly sunny) 11:20 AM – Top (59 degrees) 11:50 AM – Rappel (6…