Pinnacles - Machete Ridge new route (3th day) - 2/07/2006  Bruce

Up the West Face approach pitch.  I aided up the bolt ladder and repeated
the easy runout to the high point where my hanger with lap links.  Placed
3-4 bolts.  The last one was a bit tough, with a hook on a small but
solid incut edge.  I wanted to run it out more, but there weren't any
big knobs to shoot for.  I got tired and was slow on the final bolt.

Bruce jumared up and replaced my lap link hanger.  He did a nice runout
above my top bolt, to where it got a bit easier.  He placed a bolt at the
base of a headwall.  Then went up and slung a sloping knob to place a
second bolt.  The sling came off and he just managed to catch the knob
and arrest a fall.  So he went back to the previous bolt and drilled
the second bolt from the aider.  The rope drag was fairly tough at
the high point.

It was getting dark, so we went down the usual way.  18 bolts in p1
at this point.