Mario’s Route 5.12a

This route is unmistakable, on orange rock punctuated with gray and white streaks with an overhanging bulge near the top. When Mario Cantu bolted this route he told me, "I have the coolest, most awesome name for the route". My blurry memory remembers him spewing something like "The Easy Life". Whatever the original name was it's been lost by word of mouth. Years later during a chance sighting of Mario, I asked him what he named it originally, and he himself didn't remember. The start is a little polished on orange rock, but still enjoyable. The crux is pulling the overhang. With some refined foot work, clipping the anchors is a breeze.