Not one of the famous alex's

 We've wanted to try mars attacks for a while but I was always worried it was going to be above my skill level. This time L, me, and our partner JD felt like giving it a shot after this very wet early spring. We parked at the mescal trailhead. It was crowded even at 8:45am and we could barely snag a spot just because someone had just left. Next time need a better parking strategy. We hiked chuck wagon to the devil's bridge fire road and then turned and followed mountain project approach directions. In hindsight we should have taken one gully up after the one we did; we took this second gully on the way down and it didn't involve any bushwhacking. The dot is on the bottom of the good gully and the yellow line is what we did on the way up. The approach was mostly uneventful and very scenic. You could see the climb most of the way. It gets specially nice once you leave devil's bridge foot traffic behind. I lead the first pitch. I originally brought the stick clip to see if