Face climb for 15-20 feet, with a slightly bouldery start (crux).  Move right to a small right-facing corner.  Follow a small diagonal finger crack right to a second, larger right-facing corner. Continue following another small diagonal crack until you reach the top few feet of Rock Hop. 

  Most of the route after the bouldery start is 5.4

Flume

Eddy

Whirlpool

Rock Hop

Start below the obvious right leaning diagonal cracks. Face climb 15' until your reach the bottom of the larger diagonal crack, follow this up and right to the top.

Climb to the top of the pyramid feature and up through the notch at the top(crux). Continue up until you reach the arete. Follow the arete up and left until you join "rock hop" at the top.

Gain the ledge by climbing in from the  right. (alternatively, make one 5.5 move up the short crack.) Move up into the shallow alcove(crux), then right and up blocky rock to finish at the birch tree in the center of the cliff.

Backwater Wall is the fourth wall in the Whitewater Wall series. It's set back in the woods and cannot be seen from the road.   Good quality rock and easy to moderate routes. 

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Routes in Backwater Wall