laybacky steep dihedral just before the 11b

Sam I Am

Theodor Seuss Geisel

Seuss is Dead

Whoville

Sylvester McMonkey McBean (aka Snitches)

Orange Crush

Logic and Proportion

Star Bellied Sneeches

Over the Hedge

Dipstick

The Lorax Tree

Green Eggs

Griptospuridiam

The Grinch

Chickenhead Better Than No Head

God Save the Queen

One Fist, Two Fist, Red Fist, Blue Fist

The crux of the route may be the tricky, but bomber gear placements.  There are many v-slots, pods, and the occasional sideways nut placement.  Tread lightly and check holds before weighting them.  If you get off route, holds may start to break.  If a rap anchor gets added, this would merit a third star.

Start just left of Sam I Am, the big left facing corner at a featured face.  Look for the right most feature before the wall goes blank.  Start just left and trend up and right through some big moves on the steepest part of the face (crux) to the right most feature.  Move up the features with big holds on a steep face (pumpy).  Follow the same feature to the top and exit on the big horn jug.  Be sure to load up on gear when it presents itself.

Climb the crack about 30' right of "Fox in Locks." Look for the fence closing that route, then right.

Begin a few feet right of the start of the Grinch and boulder up the face, make a traversing move right to the crack and follow it to the ledge.

Take care with gear until you get into the crack proper. It's the crux and poorly protected and the landing is bad. If 5.6 is your limit or you are a new leader, it might be best to top rope this line first. The crack itself takes good gear.

As with the Grinch, if the rock quality were better the overall quality would be much higher. The climbing is fun and interesting.

The roof crack to thin seam to slab crux above Star-bellied Sneeches. The topout can be a real shitshow when it's muddy and wet... move right.

Cool juggy face climbing with good but tricky pro

Overcome the flare and get established in the hand crack and cruise to the top, jamming, stemming, and laybacking your way up this gem.

Climb the flake and face around it passing a small tree, then a rhododendron cluster and then a second small tree. Top out on a nice ledge and belay and rappel from one of the large trees.

This route has better rock quality than almost all of the other easy and moderate routes at this wall. And despite the vegetation the route climbs very well.

Climb the hand crack that turns into an offwidth. Crux is the offwidth near the top.

Splitter hand/fist crack behind a tree. Tape up!

Follow the well eroded left facing flake to anchors.

This climbs a bit better than Ham.

Follow the fingercrack flake past some reachy moves to an awkward transition onto a slab just below the anchors.

A beautifully difficult finger crack.

Start below an overhanging finger crack that runs through a bulge.  Start the boulder problem, get some high gear and crank through the flared finger jams.  Once established above the bulge, the crack turns into a moderate hand crack and face climb.  There is a few spots of loose rock up high, but nothing to worry about.

Climb the low angle friable crack system in a low angle dihedral to a sandy ledge. If the rock quality were better this route would be three stars at least.

This one is exciting and for all the wrong reasons.  Probably doesn't see many ascents and it shows.  This route is very serious having lots of fragile rock to negotiate, even during long runouts.  It is advisable to have your belayer hide under the overhang at the start and wear a helmet.

Start in a wide broken crack.  Move up the crack into another broken crack, placing gear when the rock is good.  Move hard right to the base of a water groove looking feature.  Move up the groove getting gear in horizontals along the way trending towards the prominent chickenhead.  Sling the chicken head with a 4' sling and get on top of it.  Above this is the crux and the R section.  Make delicate moves up the dirty, slick, mossy face to get to the plates way above.  Once at the plates, find some gear and either move up or hard right to the anchors on Griptospuridiam.

On our ascent, we did not see a slung tree, but traversed right to the bolts on Gripto.  Note that if you do the traverse, there are many loose plates up high, but are some good chickenheads to sling down low.  Slinging the chickenheads down low will prevent the rope from knocking one of the plates loose.

Super straight forward on a juggy arete plugging gear in the crack to the right.  Toughest move is the small lay back in the #6 sized crack at the start.  Once you hit the arete, it is cruiser.

Scramble up to the ledge to the right. Stick in a large cam and then pull the stout crux. Once you get into the fist jams the hard stuff is over. Follow the cool looking crack to a ledge.

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