Escape

Most of the belay spots are festooned with slings, etc.; this is a route that people bail off of frequently. I found two 60 m rappel ropes jammed near the base of N. Chimney, the remnants of an epic middle-of-the-night-in-the-rain rappel escape down the chimney. It seems unlikely that you would ever need more than just slings to retreat from this route unless you were off route. From the info we got it was not clear if you could reach Broadway if you kept rappelling straight down from the bottom of the big dihedrals, but it sounded like some people had gotten there by rapping diagonally south (left as you face the wall) to anchors on the Yellow Wall, then down. Best check with the rangers. Once on Broadway, rap down the Crack of Delight rap route (see below), not down North Chimney.

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