This is What an Almost-Deck Looks Like

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Every once in a while, a route lives up to its name.

This Weekend Whipper features Avery Lieu on Scary Monsters (5.12a), a left-facing stem corner at Super Creeps Wall in Joshua Tree’s popular Lost Horse area. Tracing up the hinge of the corner is an ultra-thin finger crack, protectable only by microcams and brass offset nuts, or “brassies.”

Lieu made it about halfway up before he placed his second piece, a brassy, in a less-than-inspiring position.