A technical rock climb on a peak best known for the large balanced rock perched along its summit ridge, using the same Longs Pass approach as Mount Stuart's Cascadian Couloir.
Drive to the Esmeralda Trailhead at the end of the Teanaway River Road. Climb the Longs Pass Trail to Longs Pass (about 6,200 feet, 2,100 feet of gain), then descend roughly 1,300-1,400 feet to Ingalls Creek. Cross the creek to the Ingalls Creek Trail and follow it downstream (east) about a mile to the Beverly-Turnpike Trail junction. Leave the trail and ascend a meadow, then bear right (east) across a buttress and into blocky, partly forested terrain, continuing up into a basin below the peak's west side. From the basin, climb the West Ridge: six pitches of rock climbing that start around Class 3 and include a crux move rated 5.4, gaining the final several hundred feet to the exposed summit ridge near the peak's famous balanced rock.
Downclimb and rappel the West Ridge back to the basin, then reverse the approach over Longs Pass. This route involves real elevation loss and regain on both the way in (down to Ingalls Creek) and the way out (back up to Longs Pass), which adds meaningfully to an already long day.