On the north east corner of the elephant rock lays a single thin flake called Wheat
Thin. If you are looking for classics in City of Rocks, this has to be one of them! It is very fun with great views of the city. Rated at 5.7, I thought that is was slightly easier than your typical “seven”. I even saw one individual free solo the route so it is definitely achievable.
We started the climb by racking up at the bottom and then moving up to as high as we could scramble to belay from there. The start is very simple and straight forward. Most of the crack flake can be climbed on the face with a transition to the crack towards the top. We climbed the crack using a using our small pro with a full set of nuts and cams up to 3. I really did not jam much on this climb.
Walk-off the south side or use two ropes to descend.

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