Gosh, you mean to tell me there’s a killer sport line spitting distance from THE ROSE????GNR offers great climbing with insidious boulder-rest-boulder-rest personality:Boulder to a no-hands ledge, then through a small left-facing corner to a smaller ledge. Sort through some arete moves, then move right to an even smaller ledge. Boulder up a second little left-facing corner to the final and smallest ledge. Pull a final tricky move to a slot and clip the two-bolt ring anchor.Some have chosen to top this out, but choose your own adventure.

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The Rose

Birthday Crack

The Thorn

Very nice face climbing up a somewhat hidden face, littered with flat edges and pockets that gradually eases off as the pump gets bigger!   

  Start right of center, directly behind the tree.  Negotiate an easy offwidth, to a small, sloping ledge.  After clipping the 2nd bolt, a short boulder problem gains a decent rest, followed by a stack of difficult face moves, eventually ending at a nice rest below the second to last bolt.  A short, but tricky series of exit moves will feel relatively desperate if not executed just right.

A fantastic hand crack.  It meanders a little as it goes up the slightly tipped back rock face.  The slight green tinge of the face from the moss lends a nice away from it all feel...sustained and a true Vermont Classic

Start below a chimney at the far left-side of the North End, a few feet to the right of The Pansy. Climb the chimney to a fern covered ledge, then continue up a short, splitter hand crack. Climb the slabs to the top of the cliff.

The Thorn sits conveniently to the right, and uphill to its sister route, The Rose. This classic finger/thin hand crack climb is quite the gem that packs some very bouldery and sustained climbing into its short length.The route begins easily enough on juggy flakes that jog up and slightly right to a vertical, thin hands section that widens slightly at its top. at the top of the crack, break left on a hard boulder problem that guards the final, short fist-sized crack.Top out on semi-insecure moves to mantle with a tree directly in front of you. Whether you use the root to finish or not is a question only your heart can answer. Bolted anchor with rap rings, be sure to keep your rope from getting stuck in the crack after rappeling.

Shade all day and home to the classic cracks of The Rose and The Thorn.

 To access the excellent climbs upon the Onceler Ledge, climb the 5.4 grovel Polypody. 

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Routes in F - North End