Rebecca and I climb the Serpentine Crack (III 5.11+) on Liberty Bell

 Rebecca and I had a day off and so we made a one day trip from Seattle up to Washington pass. We thought we would attempt the Serpentine Crack (III 5.11+) on the west face of Liberty bell. Above is Rebecca on the approach from Blue lake Trail head.

 Rebecca climbing the third 5.10b/c pitch, Nelson's guide calls it 5.10d but we didn't think it was that hard. It is super fun arching hand and finger crack corner with a steep bulge at the top

 Rebecca and I on the summit, after all our Washington Pass climbs together this was actually our first summit of Liberty bell together.

 That's my cutie!!!!

 Me trying to stem as much of the overhanging 3-4" 5.11+ crux as possible, this was about as far as I made it before it starting getting super burly.

The "Window" squeeze chimney you go sideways through on the 4th pitch.

We both really liked the Serpentine Crack, after the first pitch its very clean and the rock is solid with well protected cruxes. The first pitch was long and a little dirty and wandered across slabs a fair bit, stopping at a pair of pitons below the crux. The crux pitch was short but fierce, still not quite 5.11d more like 5.11b/c. We brought two #3’s and one #4 Camalot but a third #3 would also not go unused. The crux was short but overhangs quite a bit and is very physical. The Third pitch is excellent, a fun hand figure crack corner checking in around 5.10b. The fourth pitch continues up the corner a short distance before traversing South through a “hole”, the hole gets very tight and I had to take my helmet and pack off. From there 2 more low to mid 5^th class pitches brought us to the West summit and another pitch brought us to the true summit of Liberty Bell. This was the first time Rebecca and I had climbed Liberty Bell together and it was very exciting