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At the top of pitch 2, there are 4 bolts to protect the escape, and that is the finish of the climb formerly known as Scabies. It is easy to traverse over to the Misery Ridge Trail from there.

 

At the top of pitch four, it is a short descent off the climber's right to reach terra sorta firma. From there, it is an uneventful walk to the elbow of the Misery Ridge Trail.

 

You can also rap off pitch one, more easily know if some quicklinks installed there recently.

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its very easy to link the first two pitches and avoid the one crappy belay stance. :)

 

also depending on where your coming from its a long walk back to the base... consider going light and climbing through with all of your gear, or if your coming over misery ridge, leave some stuff near the top out, the easiest way i could describe this would be to go over misery ridge and go down the first short switchbacks then the first long one heading north down hill cuts below fairy tale tower keep heading that way and pick up the climbers trail that will put you atop the small ridge the kiss the lepers forms. stash your stuff somewhere up there then go back the way you came, pick up the misery ridge trail back down then head over to the base of the route. im lazy and i hate wasting time hiking and crap, so with that attitude theres my 2 cents :)

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  • 9 months later...

We did First Kiss for the first time yesterday. We're wimps when it comes to exposed scrambles, so we had been wondering about the descent, too. The descent went very well.

My description would go as follows:

From the anchors, walk away from the anchors which is over scree and a couple of boulders, up into the notch, which will be on your right. In the notch, make a single easy move to get up about 3' onto the large level formation. Walk across the formation, again in the direction away from the route/anchors. The "third class exposed" moves are to climb down about 6' onto the next large block. We found good hands and feet for the moves and felt comfortable doing them. The exposure was off to one side, not right under your feet. From the block, walk left around the next block and you'll be at the climbers trail.

We really enjoyed the climb.

Hope this helps anyone who is searching for beta like we were.

 

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