Climb the intimidating offwidth to the right of the Merlin Arete.

Kamikaze

Allegro

Merlin

Excalibur

Presto

Crescendo

Moderato

Start at right facing corner and work your way up until you gain the bolted arete.

From the P1 Anchors of crescendo, climb just left of crescendo up a corner meeting up with the anchors at P2 of crescendo

Climb the thin face to the right of Kamikaze

From the anchors at the top of the 1st pitch of crescendo move left around 20'.

One of the classic crack lines at Nelson. A casual 5.9 first pitch to a set of anchors at about 50 ft. A wonderfully exposed 70ft finger crack for the 2nd pitch leads up to a ledge with anchors.

Start on the largest corner on the crescendo ledge, with the small tree at the base of it, pro is good, get creative with using the entire flake, watch for poor rock quality near the fixed pin.  Belay at anchors on the first pitch or fire through and link them(be ready for some hellacious rope drag, as well as communication problems) Second pitch is a lot easier.  Anchors at both.  Easier to traverse right out Buttpucker Traverse to get to the anchors on top of crescendo than to rappel down Moderato.  Rap from Crescendo can be done in a single rap with a 60m rope, tho it is a rope stretcher.

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Routes in Crescendo Wall