Starts with a steep roof and a nice juggy headwall with some business at the top.

Vertical Smile

Spawn of Provo

Be A Stripper

Dr. Goodkind

51 (Scoops)

Electron Blue

June Bug

White Gripper

Braintree

Shunt Mouth

Welcome Back Cobble

Orion

50 Something (The Tree Route)

Uncle Bill

Looking for Yesterday

Brother Clucker

Chossaholic

Sheetz

M Squared Z

Lucky Stars

Draped and Displayed

Grunt

Start under small roof and pull over 2nd bolt using small holds and side pulls. Steep overhanging jugs leads to a technical crimpy crux to the chains.

Rightmost route on this section of the wall.  Popular cobbles and pockets.  Still cleaning up, but well worth it.

Follows the black streak. OK climbing, but I would think one section is a little heady for a 5.11- climber.

Crux comes right off the ground. Pull a small roof at 2nd bolt and continue through on large holds. Another small crux pulling the bulge up top to easier climbing to the chains.

What a cool route!  The most striking line on this section of cliff and most people's favorite.   Climb up and left connecting the 3 scoops in the rock.   Very bouldery.   A kneebar helps to shake off some pump at the 3rd scoop before heading into the crux.   From there, it's just staying cool and shaking when you can in the black streak to the top.

Technical and sequential crux pulling the first roof, followed by sustained climbing to a potential red point crux a body length beneath the chains.  As of summer 2012 the first third of the route is still pretty fresh, but rock quality improves above that. This will be an excellent route with a few hundred more ascents.

To the left of the black streak. Finding holds is challenging on the lighter-colored rock.

This route has quite a variety of climbing and tends to be fairly bouldery.   Climb through the sandy start to reach a pair of finger pockets above the first scoop on Scoops, 12c.   From here, boulder through some small holds and gain a stance.   Then it's a series of finger pockets to the best rest on the route.   The rest of the climb is just trying to manage the pump to the finish through the black streak.

The start is similar to most of the routes in this sector and it is sandy and loose.  The crux comes as you approach the 4th bolt.  From here, hold on and make big moves to reach the jugs.   A little harder than Looking for Yesterday.

Pulls through 3 bolts of semi-chossy rock to a small ledge system. Hard pulls on crimps and really slopy slopers to a left leaning dihedral. Shake here and then the climb finishes in a crack requiring technique. Consensus needed on grade.

This route was bolted by B. Boyle.

Just left of, and an even dirtier start than Grunt.  Climbs the left side of the black water streak.

This route would be so much better if that darn tree wasn't there.   Start in the alcove just to the left of Scoops.   The rock is steep and sandy for the first 3 bolts and the moves are very bouldery.   After gaining a stance above the large pod, the angle lessens and the climbing slowly becomes more technical.   As you proceed higher, you'll begin to go directly behind the tree.   Just before the last bolt, it gets very thin.   As much as you want to climb away from the tree, the best holds pull you back to being behind it.   After the last bolt, it's big positive holds to the finish but a fall here probably puts you in the tree.

Climb up and try not to get suckered out left.   Make a kind of tricky clip before gaining a great rest stance.   Head up and left and prepare for the thin crux.   Once you pull the crux, pass the chains of Shunt Mouth, bust an undercling move and hold on until the finish.

This route has really cleaned up.   The crux comes just before the halfway point where the holds get thin and you have a choice to make a big throw to a good hold or do a few more moves to the right before getting to the good hold.   The climbing stays on you for a bit and gives a redpoint crux in the upper sandstone section.

Difficult start leads to better holds above.  Stick clip anyone?

Starts left of and outside the steeper part of the wall.  More technical face climbing.

Starts under roof, pull on a mix of jugs and slopers to the top. This is not often climbed, so it is recommended to climb cautiously and stick clip the first bolt.

AKA- Sizzler

Dirty, bouldery start leads out of the overhang left of 50 Something (Tree Route).  Follows the black water streak.

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