Steck-Salathe

Idk if its typical practice but about half way up generator I had to grab the jug/flake on the outside, and pop my chest out of the crack, pull up, and squeeze back in because it got really tight. (maybe everyone does this?)

Every generation is its own generation, and one
cannot be compared to another. I admire the guys who went up there in
tennis shoes and lousy ropes, full of youth and adventure, the Don Wilson
types... I might have climbed harder stuff in a later generation, but I
have never felt I surpassed anyone. Everything is always relative to its
own generation. The real point of Sentinel is the beauty and grandeur
of that great route, whatever the grade it's given

But the real crux of the route is the pitch before the narrows.

Speaking of squeezes, how about the third pitch of the Hourglass (the one near Ribbon Falls, not at Lover's Leap).? I did it with Bates and Donini. You started on the outside. After a while there was a bolt. I'd heard that most people had to go about 7' above the bolt before getting in one of the tightest chimneys in my experience. It was the only -- ? -- time I couldn't turn my head without scraping off nose skin. But at least once in no way could you fall (almost no way could you make upward progress initially). But Barry had to go something like 40' above the bolt (old quarter incher of course). I was surprised; I'd never thought of him as all that much bigger than I. But he was -- all muscle of course. And that's why it wasn't traumatic for him.