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Gonzales Creek Wall | |||||
5.10c | Jenga for Dummies
SR from #0 Met to #3 BD, 2x #1 Met - #0.75 BD Clip a bolt and follow cracks through a little roof into a right facing corner. Move up left on jammed blocks (bolt) to a ledge. A few balancy crux moves lead up the arete, then consistent and fun climbing up the crack. Named for a wild ride taken when a block trundled with a car jack caught the bottom step of my etrier on its way past. FFA: David Brayden, Jul 2015 | 35m, 4 | |||
5.10d | Hungry Hungry Hippos
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5.10b
20m
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5.10d
20m
SR from #0 Met to #2 BD, 2x #2 - #3 Met
FFA: David Brayden, Sep 2015 | 40m, 2, 2 | |||
5.11c | You Sunk My Battleship
SR from #1 Met to #3 BD (optional #4 BD), 2x #1 BD for pockets Difficult climbing past three bolts leads to an easier crack/groove. Follow it to a face crux. Jam a strange but solid #1 BD in the horizontal and head past a bolt to a small ledge. Fun climbing up and left (another #1 BD in a slot) into a layback finish up an easy crack. FFA: David Brayden, Jun 2016 | 34m, 7 | |||
5.11c | Sicilian Defense
SR from #0 Met to #2 BD, 2x #1 Met Climb past the first three bolts of You Sunk My Battleship. Once reaching the groove, step right onto a big hold and climb up and right through a bulge to a ledge (small cams). Continue rightwards to a bolt and then straight up to a small roof. Pull the roof, easier with trickery, past three bolts. Move back left on big holds to finish up the final layback crack of You Sunk My Battleship. FFA: David Brayden, Aug 2016 | 34m, 7 | |||
5.12a | The Game of Life
SR from #00 Met to #1 BD, 2-3x #0 - #3 Met, small nuts The testpiece of the crag. Work up into the obvious undercling and make a powerful move up and right. Continue up the easier crack system to below the widest part of the roof. Pull it and launch onto the pumpy face above. Small yet solid gear and excellent climbing. It’s possible to access the anchor from the top of You Sunk My Battleship. FFA: David Brayden, Aug 2016 | 34m, 1 | |||
5.11a | Go Directly to Jail
SR from #0 Met to #2 BD A difficult move past a bolt gains fun climbing up the shallow corner to a ledge. Climb a layback crack and the face above past bolts. Use the stump out right to mantel onto the sloping ledge to the anchor on the face. FFA: David Brayden, Sep 2017 | 25m, 5 | |||
5.12a | Do Not Collect $200
SR from #0 Met to #2 BD The extension to "Go Directly to Jail". Pull the very cruxy roof left of the anchor, reach right, and power-teeter-layback up good holds on the arete. FFA: David Brayden, Sep 2017 | 30m, 7 | |||
5.10c | Nobody Wants Your Damn Sheep
SR from #0 Met to #2 BD, 2x #.75 - #1 BD The original start to Candyland, it ends at the first pitch anchor. Gain the small right facing corner with an awkward start and follow it to a ledge. Continue up easy terrain, then right when possible past a bolt to finish on the face. FFA: David Brayden, Sep 2017 | 25m, 1 | |||
5.10c | Candyland
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5.10c
25m
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5.10b
20m
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5.10c
25m
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5.10a
30m
SR from #0 Met to #1 BD, 2x #1 - #3 Met Fun, well protected climbing leads to the top of the wall and a great view of Howe Sound.
FFA: David Brayden, Sep 2017 | 100m, 4, 6 | |||
5.10b | Too Much Effort
SR to #3 BD Start up the hand crack in the left corner of the bay. Step left before the roof and continue up the shallow left facing corner to an anchor on the face. The FA was climbed in its natural state. Cleaned and anchor added in 2018. FFA: Joe Buszowski, Peder Ourom & Craig Thompson, 1982 | 25m | |||
5.12c | Roll the Dice
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5.12c
25m
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5.11d
25m
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5.11c
25m
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5.11a
20m
SR #1 Met to #2 BD, offset nuts (optional #4 BD for P2) A direct, well protected line up the buttress that will test your technical skill.
FFA: David Brayden & Leanne Belcourt, Sep 2018 | 95m, 4, 7 | |||
5.11a | Snakes and Ladders
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5.9
20m
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5.9
25m
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5.11a
20m
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5.10a
20m
SR to #2 BD The original route here. Snakes and Ladders was named for the weaving path the line takes up the wall, where if you step on a snake on pitch 3 you’ll end up right back on pitch 2. Carl led this ground up, onsight, while scrubbing with a brush and drilling on lead! Recleaned (by mere mortals) in 2018. Start below the obvious right facing corner near the end of the big log against the right side of the cliff.
FFA: Carl Austrom & Robin Barley, 1981 | 85m, 4, 6 | |||
Gonzales Heights Above It All | |||||
5.10c | ★★★ Watch It Burn
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5.8
20m
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5.10c
25m
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5.10c
0m
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5.10a
35m
The first route at Above It All follows finger and hand cracks to the top of the wall.
Rap the route with a single 70m rope. Gear: .2 - 3, (2x) .3 - 1, nuts. | 80m, 4, 6 | |||
Gonzales Heights Isengard Mt Doom | |||||
5.10c | ★★ Cracks of Doom
A wild adventure up a majestic wide corner. Highly recommended. Gear: (1 - 2x) .4 to 6 FFA: Drew M, Jon R & Danny G, 2018 | 30m | |||
Gonzales Heights Isengard Breakfast Wall | |||||
5.11b | ★ Second Breakfast
Tricky, with a reachy gear placement. Gear: Medium offset nuts are the key (2x) .3 to 1, offset nuts FFA: Drew M, 2017 | 15m | |||
5.11c | ★ Elevensies
In case you’re still not satisfied after second breakfast. Gear: (1x) .2 to .5, (2x) .75 to 2, (1x) 4, wires FFA: Drew M, 2017 | 15m | |||
Gonzales Heights Isengard Bat Rat | |||||
5.12a | Bat Rat
Awesome crack climbing through a roof. Named after a flying squirrel that lived nearby. Gear: (2x) .2 to 2 FFA: Drew M, 2017 | 25m, 1 | |||
Gonzales Heights Isengard The Precious | |||||
5.10c | ★★ The Precious
A good climb for people with little hobbit hands. Gear: (1x) .2 to .5, (2x) .75 to 1, (1) 2 FFA: Laurie B, 2018 | 15m | |||
Gonzales Heights Isengard White Tower | |||||
5.12d PG | ★★ Shadowfax
Short and stout. The pro is bomber but hard to place. Pre-place a piece to bump it down a letter. Gear: (1x) .5 to 1 FFA: Duncan O, 2019 | 10m, 1 | |||
5.10c | ★★ Battle of the Balrog
Climb steep double handcracks to a ledge, then enter the chimney and prepare to battle the balrog. Gear: (2x) .5 to 3 FFA: Drew M, 2018 | 15m | |||
5.12c | ★★★ March of the Ents
Steep burly jamming. Gear: (2x) .2 to 1 FFA: Drew M, 2018 | 15m | |||
5.12d PG | ★★★ The White Wizard
The king line! Bouldery and sustained, with a little spice. A crash pad on the ledge makes it safe. Easy to set up a toprope from Shelob. Seeps after rain. Gear: 000 C3 to .5, crash pad FFA: Drew M & Clinton L, 2019 | 10m | |||
5.10b | ★★ Shelob
A short but quality layback. Gear: (1x) .4 to 5 FFA: Drew M & Dee A, 2016 | 10m | |||
Gonzales Heights Gonzales Boulders | |||||
V5 | ★ The Water Throne
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V9 | ★★ Algorithm
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V10 | ★★ The perch
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V7 | ★★★ Fantastic Mr.fox
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V9 | ★★ Progression in backwards thinking
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V10 | ★★ Forward Fox
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V9 | ★ A time That Never Was
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V3 | Paranoid State
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V11 | ★★★ Count your Blessings
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V1 | Left Arete
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V7 | ★★ Flight of the Tea Cozy
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V10 | ★★★ On again off again
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V7 | Bad Home Haircut
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V8 | ★★★ Caracal
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V2 | ★★ Area K Arete
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V12 | ★ Not an Option
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V10 | ★★★ Polygons
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V2 | ★★ Butt Busker
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V3 | ★ Corn Husker
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V3 | ★★ The Schooner
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V12 | ★★★ An Understanding
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V9 | ★★★ Peter and the Wolf
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V4 | ★ Archer Pose
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V4 | ★★★ The Mastodon
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V2 | ★★★ Smirnoff Ice
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V8 | ★★★ Sessionables
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V1 | Trees Fort
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V2 | Happy Hour
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V3 | Afghani Gold
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V5 | ★★ Afghani Gold Direct
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V4 | ★★★ Moroccan Blonde
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V4 | ★★ Lebanese Red
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V9 | ★★★ Kohei's Arete
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V2 | ★★★ Dilaudid
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V3 | ★ Whose Got My "Ludes"
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Gonzales Heights The Fferys Wheel | |||||
5.12c/d | Vanguardia
FA: Brette Harrington | ||||
5.13d | K-town Connector
Starts on Perfect Wife and then left higher up. | ||||
5.13c | Perfect Wife
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