Follow a crack up left of a detached pillar (5.9). Stem against the pillar (11b), and go through a small roof (10). See the beta image for more info.

Working Man

Behind the Eight Ball

Humpback Humpback Humpback Whale

Yellow Cake

Sucker Punch

Last Donut of the Night

China Syndrome

Golden Bucket

Chimney Sweep

Foodbar

Leather Lung

The Breakup

Fuzzy Undercling

A splitter wide crack, a rarity for Index. With its locker fist jams, a few offwidthy moves, and a juggy lieback, this thing is a 4 star climb!

A 60m just makes the ground for the rappel. Geoff Georges added a new bolted anchor at the top in 2018.

An excellent route to do when it's too warm to climb at the Lower Wall.

This fantastic and varied route is located on the right side of Foodbar wall and has been outfitted with new bolts protecting the previously spicy sections, making it extremely approachable for the average climber.

Start on a thin jug horn and pull into secure stemming. Find the great incut finger pod on the broken flake up on the left, allowing you to pull onto the foot ledge to clip the first bolt. From here, enjoy the fun 5.10 climbing until the massively positive jug ledge at the base of the glorious #4 stem box. Cruise to the chains.

A good warmup and easiest access for "The Breakup"

Ascends a wall with yellow streaks with two short left-facing corners below. Yellow Cake goes up the left one.

Go up a splitter hand crack to start, with a crux move past the first bolt, then to a face crack accepts gear to .75" to chains above.

Further up canyon but still on the left side is a bulging, overhung wall with many features. This is on the right side of the wall and climbs a featured face with several bolts. Although the climbing is easier than the rest of the route, it is somewhat difficult to reach the first bolt and a fall could prove very injurious; therefore use caution, natural gear or a stick clip. The rest of the route is challenging and fun face climbing on good rock.

AKA "Foodbar Pitch 2" is yet another brand new adventure to the inner walls. This monumental task of cleaning has yielded a fantastically varied second pitch to the Foodbar. If my initial cleaning job (about 90% clean) is finalized this could easily be 3.5 stars. This pitch has it all: finger locks, hand jams, stemming, liebacking, chicken wings, heel hooks, and mantles.

Once you've climbed either HHHW, Foodbar, or Sucker Punch, begin right of the belay up blocky climbing. Move left onto the ledge above your belayer and get a solid #0.5 BD cam. Continue up easy blocky climbing with the occasional crack and stem to a fun lieback switch move in a right facing corner/ramp with a great finger crack. Climb up to the obvious short offwidth that begins at #2's. A #0.3 X4, totem, etc. protects the short 5.10+ boulder problem and mantel onto the ledge out left. From here climb the fun broken arete with good holds and cracks. Save a #0.5 for this section. Head towards the corner above the removed tree and make a few hard-ish moves to the anchors out right on the large ledge. A #4 protects these moves but if confident you can leave it behind.

It is possible from the anchors to rappel hard right to the anchors of The Breakup to set up a top rope.

At the start, place gear to 3.5". Then gain an arete and then traverse right under a roof to a perfect finger crack in a bright yellow corner. Climb to the chains just over a second roof (take several .5 camalots).

This fantastic moderate in the Inner Walls has been fully restored and retrofitted with a new bolt protecting the potential ground fall at the crux as part of the Foodbar Wall restoration project.

Start on top of the large boulder and step across climbing on bomber blocky jugs to the first bolt. A short and fun crux sequence, which can be done a myriad of ways will plop you onto incut jugs. Climb through the splitter 3" corner to the "Golden Jug" and through the 5.10a roof. Continue up ledgy terrain to the tree where a new anchor has been installed.

Highly recommend to anyone trying to break through into the 5.10's or stronger climbers looking for the perfect warmup. Get on it!

A short chimney route. The beta topo for the wall shows the original name for this route. In 2017, it was extensively recleaned and renamed.

The first route on the wall, thus giving Foodbar Wall its name.

While I opted to make Humpback Humpback Whale safer for the masses, I left Foodbar in its original spicy state. All gear, no bolts.

Start as with Humpback Humpback Humpback Whale but instead of going left to the bolt, pull out your wires or even better, a black totem and protect the thin and technical cruz through the corner. With bad gear below and thin gear protecting you from the ground, this is a heady lead for the grade. Simply put, a more direct, harder, and headier HHHW. Fear not, however, as this variation can be easily top-roped by climbing the safer and easier HHHW.

This route was described as a project in the Cummin’s guide and ended at rotten slings at  about 40’.  Bolts were added at the top of the cliff to double it’s length.  It is one of the better trad climbs (of any grade) in the area.

Quite possibly the best sport line in the Inner Walls and the only multi-pitch in the area as of August 2017. After eyeing this line from the ground for nearly 4 years, I managed to squeeze in putting this beauty up before moving away. Skip the paragraph below if you don't want any beta.

BETA: Begin on moderate climbing on blocky holds trending rightwards to a bomber heel hook below the 2nd bolt. After clipping the 3rd bolt, throw out right to a big pinch and then up to a small 3 finger crimp. Match the good horizontal hold at bolt 4 and throw right to a small side pull, then out left to the arete where a jug resides. Rest up on the big jug below the roof and then a hard sequence with an undercling in a horizontal crack out right to the arete. Enjoy the last good rest at the base of the twin cracks and gear up for the pumpy finish. After pulling up onto the sloppy ledge at bolt 9, save some energy in the tank for the "heartbreaker" crux. Using compression, liebacking and finger locks will put you at the hero jug out left. Top out and take in an interesting view of the inner walls.

5.11 is not my intended grade because my intent is to leave this route is ungraded. I expect the final grade will be between 5.11b-5.12b and will update the grade after sufficient consensus.

Begin up the thin steep crack with a couple bolts to the right of Golden Bucket. Pull a hard move over the techy roof and head up the lower-angle corner above to the HHHW anchors. Alternatively (better) step left after the roof and finish as for Golden Bucket.

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Routes in Foodbar Wall