Pretty fun route with pretty good holds, but a little thin near the top.

A Step Before Winter Walking

Kittitas Bong Squad

Draft Dodging, Pot Smokin',  Rasperry Intern Fudge Swirl

Silhouettes

Carnage in the Temple of the Damned

Used Sex Toys

Gargling Sperm

Chimney Divine

Well Preserved

Rod of God

Crack in the Back

Wild Dogs

Sperm Burps

A Game of Inches

Dale and Jim's Excellent Adventure

Monica's Dress

Falsies

The Oral Office

Heart Beat

Wild Thing

Old Friends

An ode to the recently buffed tag on the Palouse to Cascades trail spanning over I-90. This route is still exfoliating in places but will clean up with more traffic (maybe). ??

Face climb up the thin crack with a jam or two. Clipping two pins and a bolt before gaining a ledge with a chain anchor.

Climbing the arête all the way up, crux is just below the anchor.

A fun, short climb with good movement on the face of a pillar.

Climb a surprisingly clean crack using mostly thin hands and tips, with ample feet throughout. The crack widens as you go up and there's a spot of offwidth towards the top. There's also a few crimps in places, if you're so inclined. Mantle onto the ledge and finish right, at the chains of

Falsies

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It wouldn't be Vantage without a few loose flakes, so be careful what you pull on; some will eventually rip off.

I used gear up to BD #3, but you could maybe slot as big as #4. And take a couple #2's, unless you want to run it out.

It's a 5.8 if you use face holds, but 5.9 if you stick to jamming the crack.

Climb up the wide crack. There are so many face holds its pretty much a face climb the whole way. Though some will do an OW move or two at the top.

Chimney behind rod of god.

Can be climbed with either chimney or face technique.

A really fun route, with some hard to figure winding back and forth to find your way up the lower half. Seemed odd to me that Bill worked on this with Jim.

Be very careful at 1st and 2nd clip, ground fall potential.

Climb up on to a pedestal at the base of a free standing pillar. Climb up on positive incuts and good feet topping out on the pillar.

Climb the hand crack which widens to 4 Camalot size. Plenty of jugs as well.

Higher up you can stem off the pillar behind you.

The ledge at the top has chains.

A balancy climb on not super positive but secure holds. A nice change from the standard arete climbs.

A hand to OW crack on the far right end the Kotick Memorial Wall.

Fun balancey climb to the right of Silhouettes. Pull on great side pulls all the way to the top.

Climb the thin crack which starts on a flake then face climb on incuts/crimps and throw the occasional jam.

Some holds are loose and some rock is hollow.

Climb to the right of the first two bolts, use the adjacent pillar to stem.  Head back to the arête and jug haul the rest of the way up.

Climb the well protected arete using solid incuts and flat edges.

Start climbing a thin hand/hand crack with tons of face holds. Face climb and jam up this thing. Crux is the last few moves which can be jammed or face climbed or a combination.

After about 25 feet of this you end on a ledge with a bolted chain anchor.

Start by climbing up onto a pedastal, clip a bolt and continue climbing up on jugs and good incuts. Once at the lip a mantel (crux) gains the ledge. Note, you can go way left to make it easier but that takes away from the route IMO. The crux is very well protected.

Plan to rap off or belay this one from above, or you'll be dealing with some serious rope scrapage.

Straightforward climbing down low brings you to a tricky finishing sequence on much smaller crimps.

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Routes in Kotick Memorial Wall