Routes in The Fortress

Climb through the low roof.

Listed as a classic in the guidebook

Climb the crack line.

Sit-start with jug in the groove and climb up the arête.

Sit-start right of the arête with good hold and climb the short face.

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Start under the rock, both hands on the boulder and do the all-so-standard flip up.

Sit-start with jugs / sidepull and climb the short slab.

Climb leftwards up the high face.

Start from obvious holds on the left and traverse the lip to an ending hold on the lip.

As for La Bowling Ball, but continue to mantle up.

Start down to the right of La Bowling Ball and climb to the lip.

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Listed as a classic in the guidebook

As The Rack but continue to mantle up.

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Start with jug, traverse right on fragile holds and climb up finishing out left.

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Sit-start, move to sloper then dyno up and join Colin the Librarian.

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Listed as a classic in the guidebook

Sit-start with the rail, climb out to the lip and traverse left through the roof and finish up as for Colin the Librarian. "Compression"

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Max Bertone

Climb The Vice halfway to pinch on the lip and then up the face using small crimps.

Start as The Vice but finish out right along the rail.

Climb Beached Whale but from the jug dyno up to the sloper.

Start same as Colin the Librarian and tops out all the way to the sharpish jugs.

Start as Colin the Librarian but climb out left.

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Start as Fat Eagles Don't Fly and finish as JC's Fortress Experience.

Climb the crack splitting the high slab.

From a rock step, climb the vertical feature to a break and finish up HIGH slab.

Listed as a classic in the guidebook

Sit-start low with good holds and climb up through the roof.

Sit-start with right hand on large sidepull feature and climb up right.

Sit-start under the overhang with crimps and climb out right opposite the slab.

Sit-start and climb the crack.

Ascent by Nicholas Allan on Instagram

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Low roof to the left of Armed Response. Opened as 8B by Daniel Woods in 2008. In 2016 a hold broke and opened up a slot in one of the rails, which made it easier, 8A+.

It’s a new slot hold that you can take with the left hand on the 2nd rail after the right hand pinch. If you check older videos e.g. Jesse Bonin 2009 you can see no slot crack and no chalk on the rail. People went up right hand to a further rail.

Listed as a classic in the guidebook

Sit-start #SD with large sidepull, move to gaston and climb straight up.

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Oriane Bertone

Sit-start and climb the arête.

Sit-start #SD on the right with left hand on a sidepull and right hand on gaston.

Start with left hand on the arete and climb up the slab.

Sit-start and climb the face.

Sit-start and climb the arete.

Climb through the roof using a crimp.

Sit-start with the groove and climb up.

Sit-start low (on the ground) with edges, move up to jug and climb out.

Start as Supa Ape... but move into a gaston then to a crimp and throw up right.

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Sit-start with right hand on crimp & left on edge and climb up right using sloper for

Sit-start with right hand on undercling, move up on small crimps then move left and top of left of the arete.

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From good holds throw up to the lip. "The sit remains a project"

Crouch-start with good rail and climb up on edges.

Sit-start with right hand on gaston.

Sit-start on the corner with right hand on flat hold and climb the short tricky face.

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Start below prow with slopers, move right to crimp and climb up.

Sit-start below the arete and climb up using a right hand sloper.

Sit-start in the middle of the roof and climb straight up.

Start as With Stuffing, move left and finish up Chocolate Tortilla.

Sit-start, traverse left and finish up using vertical break.

Sit-start on the right and climb diagonally left through the roof.

Sit-start with large pocket, move up then left to jugs and top-out.

Sit-start with pockets, move to diagonal pocket, climb through bulge on edges and

Sit-start under seam and climb straight up.

Sit-start with jug / pocket, move up to jugs and finish up right.

Sit-start with large undercling, climb left around aríÈte and finish up left of lean

Sit-start inside the cave with edges and traverse the roof crack.

Sit-start low with good right hand and small left hand and climb through the low roof.

Sit-start under the triangular roof, make your way out right and climb the crack until

Sit-start below the crack, climb up right then throw to the high jug. From here most

Sit-start with crack, move up and throw for the jug.

Sit-start with flake, climb up right and finish up the high crack. This route was bolted by someone after the FA (boulder problem at 7a+).

Sit-start with sidepulls, climb up left then right along break and finish up high.

Climb the cool flake.

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Same start as for After 8. From last crimps on the flake go straight up, and mantle out left (instead of moving far out right to the round jug).

Start in the cave, climb out and finish up with half-moon seam.

Sit-start on the right and climb out with thin crack.

Start with large tufa feature. Climb up to large undercling and finish up the high wall.

Sit-start and climb up leftwards through the roof.

Sit-start low and climb out.

Sit start on the slope in the corridor behind, climbing out to the lip to the right, using the crimp on the face make your way up the slab. Easiest without pads

Sit-start with left hand in small slot & right hand in crack and climb up.

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Sitstart - left hand undercling pinch and right hand crimp. Using a left kneebar for the next moves...

Start with right hand on gaston/crimp and climb the red face.

Sit start and climb up using bucket jugs low down and good crimps higher up on the face.

Climb the middle of the face / slab.

Walk past The Bastille with The Vice problem on your right, and in the amphitheatre behind on left find this amazing boulder with an overhanging crack - it's been bouldered with pads sans rope and its your choice how to ascend

Left-hand route.

Start off the block.