Nodes in Benton Hills

Good moderate trad cragging in a concentrated area with a short & easy approach.

The first rock you approach from the access trail. It has a good selection of trad moderate climbs.

Climb face to bolted anchor.

Near the center of the cliff there is a small (2m) high buttress with a top that is a ramp heading up and right. Start here, climb up to the ledge, then up right, to a vertical crack. Follow this to the rising horizontal break, step left, then up another crack/flake system that goes up and slightly right. Gear anchor.

On the right side of the cliff, there is an obvious ledge about 4m up the cliff. This climb starts at an obvious crack below the left end of the ledge.

Climb the crack to the ledge, then follow and obvious crack that trends up and leftwards, through a slab section where the crack peters out, to an upper left-facing crack/flake system and the top. Gear anchor.

Below the middle of the ledge is a finger crack, start at this.

Climb the crack to the ledge. From the ledge climb the face above on small seams towards the roofs. At the roofs, go left then pull up into a dihedral and finish directly upwards. Gear anchor. (No bolts, despite them being shown in one local guide.)

Start on a crack a couple meters right of "Surfin' Safari". Follow this crack up to the ledge, then continue following it up and left the whole way. (This will pass entirely right of and above the roofs that "Surfin' Safari" traverses under.)

Formation to the right of "Locals Only Rock".

Chimney.

1. 5.8. Face climb to dihedral.

2. 5.10a Pull roof to face.

Formation behind "Locals Only Rock" and "Psycho Killer Rock". Runs in parallel to them.

Up a drainage and right of the other rocks, this one is a bit farther away and has some steeper climbs.