This route lies on a small pillar opposite Gutterball, Brainstem, etc... Start off a boulder and pull a slabby crux move onto the formation. A rising traverse leftward leads to a ledge and anchors

Traverse Route

Look At Me

Brainstem

Roundabout

Up your Alley

Gutter Ball

One of the most epic pitches in the entire Apple Valley area!   This pitch climbs 130 ft. of sustained slab and knobs and may require two ropes to descend. Start up a slabby corner and continue up over bulges and knobs past 12 bolts on this seemingly endless pitch.

Steep slab start to connect to a left-slanting shallow flare crack to the top.  No supplemental trad gear necessary.

Steep face on a protruding column at the mouth of The Cove, on its left side when walking in.

Up steep featured face, crack, and upper slab to bolted rap anchor.

This route faces east and climbs a detached pillar left of  Up Your Alley.. Start up a slab and pull tricky balance moves up and left past 3 bolts  and into a wide crack. Jam and lie back the crack,, then move right onto a slab. Climb the slab up and left past a couple more bolts and into a hand-sized crack. Jam the crack, then clip one more bolt and then the anchors. An epic pitch!

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Routes in The Cove