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Like its adjoining neighbour this is a fine towering wall of crisp and shelly rock, that provides a wide choice of face climbing classics and some very long pitches. It is one of the first and best west coast crags to receive the sun in the late morning. Guidebook page 84.
| Route (click for voting and user comments) | Symbols | Grade | |
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Screw the Roses, Send me the Thorns Sustained wall climbing on a direct line at the lower limit of the grade. Start at the wall just right of an overhang at 4m.... 2 user comments | 1 Stars Pumpy | 7a+ |
2 |
The Shells, The Shells Eliminate in style, but worthwhile climbing. Start below a diagonal crack and a bolt between two staples. Climb the lower dirty... 4 user comments | 1 Stars | 7a |
3 |
Driven Like the Snow A Portland gem. Start at a boulder on the path. Climb the lower wall to below a long crack-line. Move up the crack until a line... 9 user comments | 2 Stars Technical | 6b+ |
4 |
Return to Roissy The long crack is a good route. Start at a boulder on the path. Climb the lower wall to below a long flake-crack. Climb the... 15 user comments | 2 Stars | 6b+ |
5 |
Last Rose of Summer Pleasant climbing punctuated by some fairly tough moves. Start below a semi-circular cut-out above the first break. Climb to... 8 user comments | 2 Stars Technical | 7a |
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Through the Barricades Fine climbing with the crux in the final groove giving a sustained section of thin climbing. Low in the grade. Start below a... 8 user comments | 2 Stars Technical Pumpy | 7a+ |
7 |
Step Away from the Gingga A good pitch. Climb to the third bolt of Babelicious Redhead then step left and climb the steepening shallow groove on shell... | 1 Stars | 7a |
8 |
Babelicious Redhead A friendly climb. Start below a cave at 3m, and climb up past it. Follow the steep wall above on crimps and pockets. 12 user comments | 1 Stars Pumpy | 6c |
9 |
Chasing the Sun A worthwhile climb that gives some good wall climbing after a rather dirty initial section. 4 user comments | Technical Crimpy | 6c+ |
10 |
The Angry Sea An easier diagonal line linking into Chasing The Sun.. 2 user comments | Technical Crimpy | 6c |
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The Wrecked Finger An interesting line that has a section of crack climbing in its upper reaches (this is a bolted section of the trad line... 1 user comment | Pumpy | 6a+ |