Routes as deep water solo in Canada

Climb the beautiful overhanging prow over the water. Start in the hueco and traverse right to a committing mantle.

Approach: From the Minaty gravel pit, follow the railroad tracks south ~20 minutes through a tunnel. The boulder problem will be on the right.

Start on the right hand side on the platform just above the water. Traverse left below the tree and follow the horizontal crack before the vertical crack to the top out.

To the left of the cliff is a small, flat-topped rock with a seam at the front. Grab and mantle out of the water.

(Protection a bit thin when water level is low -- this is a spring problem. )

There is a series of solid hand-holds and edges running from the left-side of the front of the main rock to almost the right side. It can be traversed in either direction -- feet are generally just above water level for the traverse, and hands are generallly 1-2m above water level.

The traverse is about 4m long, but the "height" is probably not more than 2m.

About 1.5m left of the obvious curving crack is a smaller series of holds and irregularities leading up to the top of the main boulder.

On the face of the boulder is an obvious curving crack leading upwards. Climb this until it thins out, then pull over the bulge as the rock smooths out and holds disappear.

There is a smaller face just to the right of the main boulder, that doesn't go as high and is just slightly less than vertical. Climb this face, starting in the center and heading mostly straight upwards or a bit left.

Start in the center of the right wall, but trending rightwards, half in the lichen.

The right wall has an arrete at the right side of it, as it turns again to be more parallel to the shore. Climb the arete.

Start at the right end of the front of the rock to the right, and establish on the crack that breaks the edge. Traverse rising up and right with hands on or around the edge between the overhang and slab, and feet on the overhanging section.

Runs parallel to, but above, the previous route: traverse with feet along the edge between the overhang and the slab, mostly on the slab.

Start at the 'top access path' and traverse along the bottom of the cliff all the way to the start of 'The Good Book'.

Don't climb too high as the water may not be as deep as it seems in some places. Be sure to jump away from the wall if you do fall.

Took Canoe from La Ronge to Downton Lake. There is a portage right next to an old dock and to the right of a private property. The route we did was directly across the lake from the portage entrance. Started at the foot wide crack with 2 steps in it and worked left to the self about 2 feet out of the water.