A new classic at Rattlesnake. Starts with an easy bouldering crack and leads  to small, widely spaced holds. Finishes with shoe smears and a small right hand finger crack.

Venom

Timber Rattler

Black Hornet

Block off the Old Chip

Dihedral Dance

Speechless

Upper Tier Dihedral

Fists and Fury

Pigmy

Slab Crack

Snake Eyes

Speaker of the House

Solo Crack

Massasauga

Snakes on a Plain

Criminal Mastermind

Easy Arete

Anniversary

Chossoholic

Snake Pit

Mike's Mix-Take

Lupara Bianca

Slither

Excellent short route accented with a mix of short pulls,lay backs, balancing, and cracks.  Would be a great second pitch to Solo, Anniversary, Black Hornet, or Slab Cracks. Named for the timber rattlesnake found in the area and the dead pine felled off route face. TIMMMMMBERRRR!

This route coined the name from a hornets nest that had to be removed half way up (half way down on rappel), and from the remains of the black charred tree trunk at the start of the climb. This is a fun zig-zag crack with lay-backs and jamming. The last ten feet are slightly overhung and finishes on good hand holds.

Sit start with left hand in a two finger pocket and right on a sharp edge. Follow left hand side pulls and right hand jugs to the top. 

Starts with good holds and move up to a large blank section. The right arete will help here. Strong and burely. Holds can be seen, but havent figured out how to get them or use them.

Excellent dihedral climbing with a finger crack.

Old school cool fist crack. Solo up easy terrain then plug bomber cams in a hand crack. The crack gets wider and harder as you go up. Fists to arm-bar.

Upper tier chimney climb with three inner cracks. Great beginner lead climb.

Excellent hand jams lead to a sloping top-out on jugs.

Short crack to the right and in the corner from Snakes on a Plain. Short jam crack with some overhang angle in the middle.

Start as for Speechless, on the left side of the arete, with an undercling for the left hand and the arete for the right.  Climb the left side of the arete.  For the record, Speechless moves right around the arete about half way up.

Nice crack line with many stances and pro.

Great crack climbing with an exposed top section.  Climb starts with an off-width crack leading to a shelf.  Step across to the mid-section on smaller finger cracks and limited foot holds. Make the reach to the bucket hold and finish on the top latticed face. Step up onto the final boulder and shout "MASSASAUGA"!

Overhanging finger crack leading to a loose chock stone, finishing on nice holds, leading to the bus stop on top. I used the left corner arete to aid in the climb. Turkey vultures like to perch on top in the warm fall sun.

Sit start on large holds. Move up to thin sidepull, get your feet up and huck for another large hold, move up and grab arete on right, gain crimp or sidepull and make large move to top.

Between two bluffs in saddle look for vertical boulder with easy climbing.  Good warm up.

Half crack leading to a challenging crux move to gain the horizontal ledge for foot placement. Continue up and left on sloped friction ledges to gain final finish straight up nice spaced hand and foot placements.  I solo'ed this on a petzl shunt and top roped it five days later with a friend.  The name derives from my ascent on my parents 58th wedding anniversary on August 24th.

Chossy crack climb. I went to OS this one day but bailed when the choss started to consume me.

Route starts by mounting the overhang and clambering to the ledge as in Massasauga.  Step to the right above the long overhang and mount the exposed wall and climb nose to the top.

Tricky, sandy, sloper climbing. Tricky at the top.

Start with your left hand on the clean arete, and right with a low, obvious undercling.  The opening move is the distinct crux.  Climb the striking arete, finishing on an obvious ledge. 

If you jump start the first move it is a fun 4/5.

 A groove chimney left is not a bad way to downclimb.  

Nice balance climb on thin holds leading to lay-backs on big sloper jugs; up the left arete face and stepping across to finish the blocky top face.

This is the west side of the main cliff. It has a lower and upper tier. There are some cool routes mixed in with boulder problems.

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Routes in Main Cliff West