Stand start about five feet left of the arete on a pair of small sharp crimps about 5 feet off the ground. Pull on and bust a hard move up to a small crimp rail before gathering your mustard and dunking the lip. There are a few intermediate gastons if you can't dunk like Lebron. once on the lip, match hands and throw it behind you! Good eye Tommy!

Tommy's Problem

Crystal Blight

Prometheus

Guilded Fleece

Top Gun

The Darkside Project

Hot Rod

Tooth Fairy

Wolves of Chernobyl

Darkness Awakens

2 Minutes To Midnight

The Golden Boots

The Golden Nikes

The Ax Palace

Prometheus Sit

The Can Opener

Darkness Falls

Bladerunner

If you like crimpers, compression and hard snags, this one may be for you.

 This problem is squeezed in between "Wolves Of Chernobyl" and "Tommy's Problem". Start low on two opposing sidepull crimps. Pull on and make a desperate right-hand latch to a sharp crimp sidepull. Stand up and throw out to a bad left-hand sidepull, then make another move or two before reaching the lip and topping out.

 The grade is unconfirmed, but it is V-hard.

Sit Sart with the left hand on a sidepull of crystals, and the right hand in a pocket formation in the crystals. pull off the ground and use small cystal crimps or make a big move up high to a rail, then a good crystal edge out left. Pull over with some slopers.

Stand start with a good left hand hold at about five and a half feet and a pinch for the right hand slightly higher and to the right. Pull on and make a move out left to a good hold. Fire out right to a sidepull and then reach out to holds at the lip. 

  There is a sit start project that could be pretty difficult.

Smooth friendly rock makes this climb one of the best in the park. Sit start with a couple sloper sidepulls and follow the dike like features up to the sloper arete. rock over on to the slab or follow the arete up and right.

A super fun warm up with some neat moves. Starts on the right side of the Darkness Falls boulder.  

  Start sitting on a strange feature sticking out of the wall. Compress your way up it, find a way to stand up and get the hidden sidepull, then work your way to the top. Top it out and do it again.

The full line is going to be a sit start, but doing the stand start comes first. Grab a small undercling crimp flake system and find a foot to oppose off of. Pull off the ground with difficulty and deadpoint to a large sharp hold out left. Keep the tension, and fire up right hand to an awkward jug. Throw the feet back on the wall and grab the jugs and topout. Sit start looks to be around v10-11.

A fun arete with that can be climbed with a bunch of little move or a couple bigger moves.  

  Sit start down on the arete and head up to a better holds higher up on the arete, eventually hitting the lip of the boulder out right. Top it out, and jump down or down climb. Now do it again in one big jump like Rod Kimble.

An eliminate that's pretty fun and a decent warm-up for your fingers. Start with left hand on a waaay low left flake and right hand up higher on a good edge (this same edge is used in Blade Runner). Find your feet and then bump your left hand to this crazy shark-tooth hold, don't try to crimp directly on the tooth or you'll cut yourself open, instead push against the back of the tooth and get a weird thumb pinch. Bump again to a good crimp right below the arete and then throw to the lip. The arete isn't used in the FA, but honestly it's not needed either as the high left crimp is really good and closer to you, it'd be a pretty big reach to use the arete.

Stand start matched on an undercling sidepull right at about waist height. Pull off the ground with a good right foot and a good left foot. Reel in the undercling with your right bicep and stand tall to a crimper. From here reel in the undercling a bit more and bump to a far two finger gaston. Walk your feet and figure out how to get your right hand up to a small shelf. Once here, gather up all your mustard and blue cheese and go for the bucket at the lip!    Hard and great movement!

This is a direct version of "Darkness Falls", which offers some excellent movement and could very well be the more natural line. Sit-start with a left hand gaston and a higher right hand on an incut crimp sidepull. Pull-on and move up lefty to ta slopey hold in the diagnol seam. From here pull out to a sidepull/ undercling pinch out right before standing tall to a sloping rail for the left hand. Once here, latch the arete and continue straight up.

This short little climb has more moves and is trickier than one would think. It was completely dark when it was done, hence the name from the Iron Maiden song.  

  Start matched in the crack, with some ok feet. Traverse to the left until you can find something good enough to top out on.  

  I'll get some pictures and update the description tomorrow, it's been a while since I've done it.

Sit start matched on the right arete with a hand on the giant foot platform and a hand on the arete. Get a high heel next to your hand and make a desperate move up right hand to a decent sloper on the arete. From here continue up the arete to the lip before topping out. FA was in the good'ole work boots.

A fun traverse arete that can be done in even really broken and old sneakers (like mine).  

  Sit or stand start on the arete, get your feet up onto the obvious giant foothold out right, and then traverse all the way up the arete, using toehooks if you want. Traverse the lip out left a few more moves after the arete ends so you can get to a spot for an easier top out.

Sit start at the base of the large vertical/ diagonal rail features. Find some feet and make a few desperate moves to gain improving holds on the vertical rails. Continue up the rails to top out on large holds.

A short problem that can be done as an arete, or one big deadpoint/dyno.  

  Start with left hand on a knob on the left arete, and right on the right arete down low. Find some feet and maybe a heel hook and either fire for the slot (way cooler) or bump your way up the arete until you can match and finish at the top.

This problem has evolved slightly over the years and the original stand start line that Troy did years ago no longer makes sense.

 Sit-start under the twin crack/seam features with a high right hand incut crimp and a left hand gaston just below. Pull on and power out left to a positive pocket-like hold before making several more difficult moves up the features in order to gain the lip of the boulder before topping out.

This problem is a crimpy traverse which then leads to a good top out. It also has one of the few decent landings that Clough has to offer.  

  There is a project that starts way inside the tunnel and then it connects to the top out of this problem. Known as the Wormhole Project.

A large cluster of decent-sized boulders. This area has something for everyone. From v1 aretes to double-digit projects, this area is bound to captivate the climbers' imagination.

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Routes in Darkness Falls Area