"Something Wicked This Way Comes" is a phenomenal climb up a sweet tower.  That being said, it is a bit sandbagged and you will want some Fisher's experience unless you have cajones or ovaries of steel/brass.  Here is the breakdown on the pitches.  I will refer to the pitches listed in the Desert Rock III book although on our ascent we deviated a bit.

P1- Broke this honker of a pitch down into two pitches.  P1a- Start in a right facing crack/roof system off the ground.  Make sure to go through the roof and NOT around right.  Follow rivets and beaks up.  We changed leads and back-cleaned about mid-way through the rivet ladder in order to have enough rope to make it to the anchors. P1b- Use some ju-ju to bypass missing section of rivet ladder and then follow mostly clean aid up to a sloping belay ledge with 3 bolts.(210' total)

P2-"Free Gothic" pitch.  This pitch will go free with some more cleaning.  Otherwise, big gear "2" and up" takes you up to the next belay ledge(150')

P3-"A1 pitch" A bunch of the rivets have ripped on this pitch I believe.  Regardless, bring some small beaks, a bunch of rivet hangers and a good eye for rivets and mantles.(140')

P4-"Money" Sweet bolt/rivet clip up wild climbing to the summit ridge(70').

P5- "The summit walk" Smear around the loosley attached alien head, aid up two bolts, and perform the doom mantle.  This old 1/4"er could probably be replaced at some point.(fun time')

RAPS: Do a single rap down from the summit, reclimb past the alien head and then bomb down the route.

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