Description of freeing Narrow Arrow Overhang  (from Chris Schlotfeldt 5/03)

I freed the short section on Narrow Arrow Overhang that hadn't been
done. I forget the exact year, but I think I freed it in 1997.
It was the short section just below the 12a roof section that was C2
due to three old pins driven into a thin crack in a
left facing shallow corner. It was really damn hard, even
harder trying to figure out HOW to free it. I finally figured out that I had
to pinch the left facing arete, laying it back, but keeping my left foot on
the inner wall (to the left of the arete) and my right foot out on the face
to the right of the shallow corner/corner. I simply slapped up the arete
this way and realized (before I pulled it) that if I pulled out two of the
pins, thus skipping gear, I could utilize the pin scars, briefly, for moving
through the section where the corner/corner is too deep to actually get
right of the arete. So I removed two of the VERY old pins that were there.
(If I remember correctly they were two old Cassin pins) So, in other words,
I linked the entire pitch from the ground through the 12a roof and belayed
two moves past the roof, right before the crack peters out to nothing.
There is a really balancy, hard, SHALLOW AS HECK corner right before the
section that I freed. Just above this shallow corner there was an anchor,
which I simply clipped and moved into the crux of the project, which was the
two pin scars and then a strange/balancy "fall" out right with catching the
arete (mentioned before) and then slapping the rest of the way up to the
base of the roof.