This route begins at the base of the dihedral. Get good feet, and start working your way up using the arete flake on the right as you get higher. The topout is safe.

Graham Cracker

Mr. Tree

Separation Anxiety

Big, Gigantic Traverse

This problem starts on the stone below the first ledge. You have a good foot just above the dirt to start on. Wiggle your way up, using the first ledge for a hand. Grab the big swoosh on your upper right, and reset your feet on the ledge. Get your hand in the crack, shift to the left, and reach up to the top. High feet will get you the topout.

This is a cool route. Start in the monopocket with right hand in the middle of the blank face, grabbing the rock on your left. Move up the left face, using the edges and stones to ease your way up, staying on the face and avoiding the far left flake. Grab the two stones to help set your feet, then reach out and snag that big stone 12 feet up. Place a careful right foot, grab the last stone on your left, then shoot for the lip! Use a few decent pebbles to help your topout.

(I was thinking of some cool name for this route, one that would really capture the experience. Well, the name sounds cool, but it came from something a bit different than you'd imagine. Working this route took me around an hour, and while I was figuring out the beta, my dogs were tied to a tree 8 feet away. They nervously watched me, cried the entire time, and only stopped when I came over to pet them. I couldn't get that experience out of my head, hence the name.)

This is a fantastic, long warm-up/traverse with safe landings and lots of options to improve footwork. Start on the East side of the boulder on the ridge to the right of

Mr. Tree

, and make your way across the North face and around and over to the dihedral near

Graham Cracker

. There is a large, vertical piece of rock on the NW dihedral, (about 10 feet North of

Graham Cracker

) that is a little loose. It would be possible to encircle the entire boulder, but there is vegetation and choss on the South side.

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