If you're wanting to try your first sport lead, it doesn't get much easier than this.  Follow the line of bolts up the left side of an outside corner on juggy holds and the occasional long reach.

Cosmic Thing

dirty crack

Feelin footsie

Make America send again

Bubba's Route

Walk it like I talk it

Lemon squeezy

Haley's Loft

Rusty

This is a sit to start boulder and starts on the crimp with your right hand and with your left hand is on another crimp rail type thing and it tops out with an optional dyno to a jug to finish. The first few moves are probably the hardest and the top out is also hard. 

start about 10-15 feet right of bubba's route and climb straight up pulling through roof and top out on nice juggy holds.

This is a slab problem! Starts with the two under cleans. Makes your way up the middle. For this problem you can not use the aret till the top where you mantle. 

A really fun line with a juggy roof to pull. 

  Easy face climbing leads to a small ledge below a roof.  Work through the roof on nice holds and continue to a somewhat slopey finish.

So If you are facing the boulder from the bottom this climb starts on these sloppy jugs on the right side near a small tree and goes out and tops out a little more left. The crux is More at the top getting out of the roof

This is a slab problem! It starts with the two underclings and ends at the top. For this problem you can not use the aret till the mantle at the top. The crux is definitely at the top. 

The crux is the the first few moves. Starts on a jug then goes to a jug and a sloper that you have to kind of mantle then finishes at the aret.  

The start is pretty much the crux. Starting under a overhang, use a stick clip on the first bolt. Use a spotter till you get to the first lip.    Note: This route was named after my granddaughter and Bradley's niece, Haley Shea Holloway.

A nice casual trad lead or fun toprope for novice climbers.  Start on sparse holds but easy climbing to a ledge, then continue up the face on plentiful horizontals to a somewhat slopy finish at the anchors.   Editor's note: I put this route up, when I worked there. John M. will comfirm this.

Though it's not a major climbing destination, Hurricane Creek is a great place to take new climbers for their first experience on real rock.  Most of the routes are readily accessible from the top of the cliff to set up a toprope and there's a good selection of easy lines.  Combine this with a pretty setting alongside a stream and a family-friendly atmosphere, and you've got a nice climbing spot just a half-hour from Birmingham. 

  There's another side to the coin, however.  Hurricane Creek is a fairly new area that's largely unexplored, and there's a lot of potential for new route development.  Even better, park management is encouraging this.  So bring your pruning shears and whisk broom, you could bag a nice FA. 

[Editor's note:  since this area is not yet documented and the routes don't have "official" names, I'm indulging in a little whimsy by giving them names myself.  When/if real route names become available, they'll be updated. -- JL]

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Routes in Hurricane Creek Park