I started working on this climb with Mary Harlan, when we climbed and cleaned the first two pitches of Sucker Punch (AAJ 2014) and this route (located just right of Sucker Punch on the northwest face) over two days. I added the remaining hardware over several other missions with various partners. Two years later, my wife, Lisa, finished the route with me.

This is a fun and varied adventure with great crack climbing on pitches two and three. There may be some loose stuff, but we put in a solid effort to get rid of all we could. You can easily rap the route with one 70m rope. All of the belays are bolted. If you are short on time, cragging the first two pitches of this route and Sucker Punch is worthwhile.

I named the route Out from the Shadows (5 pitches, 5.11) because the route is in the shade for most of the day, and, more importantly, it was Lisa’s first big adventure with me after a difficult fight with Lyme disease for the past two years.

– ­Jason Nelson