This is one of the harder options for a climb on Pine Rock. Starting on the right-hand side of the wall, you want to be using the bulge to the right of the shallow crack that starts Right? Right!

You're A Big Kid Now

Fish in a Barrel

Main Wall Direct

Vertical Climbing?!

Debit Only

Almost Like Fish In A Barrel

Right? Right!

Start to the right of the main face on the right edge of an overgrown corner, and follow the crack up. This doesn't use feet to the left of the crack.

New toproping bolts were installed for Boston Parks & Rec., August 2018.

 Walk around the rock until you find the way up. The bolts are roughly centered over the slab.

Rather than traversing around ledges/following the crack, just climb straight up! While you can actually pick many places from the ground between the start of "Fish In A Barrel" and "Debit Only", starting slightly to the right of "Almost Like Fish In A Barrel" and going up past the ledges you'd use for that climb make this one of the harder routes you can pick on the Main Wall.

Thanks to the shape of the top of the cliffs, this climb actually has a move or two of non-slab climbing! It is a fun end to what's otherwise just like most of the climbing on Pine Rock's Main Wall. The climb isn't a good place for the existing bolts, but you can make your own anchor with a mix of natural pro and some nuts, or just treat it like a highball boulder and bring pads.

Start to the left of the brown stain, and travel as straight up as you can. The thin crimps lead up to a small mantel,with an easier section up to the top. I am naming it after the "credit card" style crimps at the start.

Starting to the right of Fish In A Barrel, travel up and to the right along the series of small ledges, topping out near the middle of the main wall.

Visible from the Austin Street Entrance, the Main Wall is a beautiful low-angle slab around 25 feet tall. 3 pairs of bolts on the top of the Wall allow for a wide variety of climbs, and a mix of natural and artificial protection can be used to set up topropes where there are no bolts.

Description

Protection

Routes in 1. Pine Rock Main Wall