Grado | Vía | Estilo de equipamiento | Popularidad | ||
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Eastern Ontario Alice Roadside | |||||
5.6 | ★ Easy Way Up
Start at the bottom of the easy way down below a small flake. Climb up to easier ground finishing with a scramble to the top. | 7m | |||
5.10c | ★ To Follow the White Rabbit
Climb the first bolted line just left of the easy way down. | 10m, 3 | |||
5.10d | ★★ Down the Rabbit Hole
Start at the base of the arête left of White Rabbit. Climb the arête to the 2nd bolt then move right onto the face and up past 2 more bolts to an anchor. | 10m, 4 | |||
5.8 | ★★ Someone's Overhang
5m left of the easy way down. Start under an overhang that forms an apex mid way up. Climb up and through the overhang via the top right side of the apex. Rap anchor at the top. | 10m, 4 | |||
5.9 | ★ Grey Beard
Same start as for Someone's Overhang. Climb straight up through the overhang to anchors. | 10m, 5 | |||
5.5 | ★ Piton-be-gone
10m left of Someone's Overhang. Up the finger crack on the right side of the face, moving right just below the top boulder and up a small ramp. No anchor. Descend down easy terrain on the right side. | 10m | |||
5.10a | ★ unknown right
10m left of Someone's Overhang. Climb the easy bolted face to a large ledge (5.3, 10m). There are 2 bolted lines from there. Climb the right one to a rap anchor. | 20m, 7 | |||
5.8 | ★ unknown left
10m left of Someone's Overhang. Climb the easy bolted face to a large ledge (5.3, 10m). There are 2 bolted lines from there. Climb the left one to a rap anchor. | 20m, 7 | |||
5.10a | ★★ Crimper's Cramp
Start around the corner, 5m left of Piton-be-gone. Climb the technical steep slab. Sustained. | 15m, 5 | |||
5.7 | ★★ True Drew
Climb the inside corner left of Crimper's Cramp. Gear to 2 inches. Often wet. Rap anchor at the top. | 15m | |||
5.10d | ★ Mad Hatter
2m left of True Drew. Follow the bolts up the center of the main wall, through some small overhangs, without going too far left. Climb through the small bulge (crux) to the anchor, or after clipping top bolt, move left into Fire Starter for a 5.8 finish, avoiding the crux. Rap anchor at the top. | 15m, 5 | |||
5.11b | ★★ Through the looking Glass
Start on Mad Hatter, at the 3rd bolt traverse right on good feet then head straight up to a big undercling. Make an awkward move up and left and start working the big flake, solve the boulder problem on small crimps and a big reach up and right to gain the anchor. PAL: Jimmy Stewart, 15 Jun 2017 | 15m, 6 | |||
5.6 | ★★ Fire Starter
Start under the large roof, 5m left of Mad Hatter. Climb the finger crack up, traverse right and climb past roof on the right side. Climb towards left inside corner past 2 bolts, then up the large right slanting crack. Either top out or rap from anchor for Mad Hatter. Alternate start same as Mad Hatter. | 15m, 2 | |||
5.10b | ★★ Fire Starter Direct
Start 5m left of Mad Hatter. Climb up slab, past a bolt, through the roof, past a second bolt, and link back up with Fire Starter for the finish. | 15m, 4 | |||
5.8 | ★★ Areted Development
Start left of Firestarter at the left end of the large roof. Climb up and left under the roof, around the arête, and onto the face. Climb up the face past 2 bolts to a ledge, following the arête up past some loose rock and a bolt through the short overhang to the top. | 20m, 3 | |||
5.8 | ★★ Mixed Feelings
Around the corner, 5m left of Fire Starter, climb the face. | 15m, 3 | |||
5.5 | ★★ Queen of Hearts
5m left of the start for Mixed Feelings. Climb the right leaning dihedral to a rappel anchor. | 15m | |||
5.10a | ★★ Airy and Scary
Located in the center of a hidden, but larger, section of the cliff. Walk 50m left of the main wall along the bottom of the cliff. Climb up through and around a number of overhangs to chains. A steel locker is on the chains for ease. | 20m, 7 | |||
Project
Route under development. Climbers left of Airy and Scary following the obvious dark water scar. | 3 | ||||
Eastern Ontario Black Bay | |||||
5.7 | Deep Water Uh-Oh!
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. | 6m | |||
Eastern Ontario Bleasdell boulder | |||||
V1 | ★ Sharp cheddar
Find the start of this problem on the back of the boulder. Climbers left. Start on sharp side pulls. Traverse right along the lip to finish at the peak. PA: 26 Sep 2021 | ||||
V0 | ★★ Break up the drive
Match start on underling. Climb up finish top of arete. PA: 26 Sep 2021 | ||||
V2 | ★ Ray Finkle and a clean pair of shorts
Short but not sweet. Match undercling start. Good holds up to mantle. Slightly intimidating mantle. Walk off carefully climbers right. | ||||
V0 | Chair force one
Climb west face. Enjoyable slab. Equip: 26 Sep 2021 | ||||
Eastern Ontario Bon Echo | |||||
5.6 | ★ Atomic Marshmallow
| 59m, 2 | |||
5.0 | Squirrel
Hard to find, a possibly un-repeated 5.0. | 75m, 2 | |||
5.0 | Jerry's Route
| 90m, 3 | |||
5.2 | One Sleeve
| 90m, 4 | |||
5.10 | Mediterranean Sundance
Closed. | 88m, 3 | |||
5.2 | Garden Wall
| 97m, 3 | |||
5.6 | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Shares first pitch with Garden Wall. | 100m, 4 | |||
5.10 | Dead Flowers
Variant first pitch for Tumbling Dice. Possibly not repeated. | ||||
5.10 | Tumbling Dice
Rarely repeated. | 2 | |||
5.4 | Crazy Paving
| 81m, 3 | |||
5.10 | ★★★ Thunder Crack and Lighting
| 2 | |||
5.10 | The Last Shall Be First
| 100m, 5 | |||
5.10+ | ★★★ Compulsion
| 92m, 4 | |||
5.5 | ★★★ Fanny Hill
| 98m, 4 | |||
5.7 | Suzy Wong
Alternate start to Fanny Hill. | 40m | |||
5.9 | Perversion
| 110m, 4 | |||
5.8 | Enovid
| 70m, 3 | |||
5.8 A3 | Nilevan
Alternate start for Sweet Dreams. | 40m | |||
5.10 | ★★ Great Leap Forward
Original ascent with aid on 2nd pitch by M de St Jorre and R.M. Preshaw in July 1982 (at about 5.7, A1). Now free but unknown who freed it. | 74m, 2 | |||
5.9 | ★★ Sweet Dreams
| 78m, 3 | |||
5.7 | ★★ Little Flo
| 72m, 3 | |||
5.5 | Ciao
The obvious, but less pleasant, start to Little Flo. | 25m | |||
5.4 | ★★ The Slab
First pitch is good, rest are crap -- people often rappel off of bolted anchors after the first pitch, and this is one of the few approved rappel points on the cliff. PA: Bob Shaylor & Jim White, 1961 | 88m, 3, 1 | |||
5.3 | Slabadob
Alternate ending for The Slab. | 30m | |||
Dead End Ramp
A not yet completed route. | |||||
5.8 | ★★ Top Secret
PA: David Atherton & Jim White, 1964 | 90m, 3, 4 | |||
5.7 | Wendy
Alternate finish to Top Secret | 22m | |||
5.6 | Persuasion
A traverse connecting the top of the first class 5 pitch of Top Secret to the end of the Ottawa route. | 53m, 3 | |||
5.8 | ★★ Ottawa Route
| 110m, 5 | |||
5.8 | Jolly Folly
Alternate finish to Ottawa Route | 40m, 2 | |||
5.9 | Mother Fletcher's Overhang
| 120m, 5 | |||
5.8 | Weirdo
Not often repeated. | 120m, 4 | |||
5.10 | Club Disciplinarian
Possibly never repeated. A short route at the top of the cliff, was originally abseiled into, but that is no longer allowed. Might be accessible by a traverse from the third belay of The Joke. | 15m | |||
5.9 | The Joke
| 120m, 4 | |||
5.10+ | The Last Laugh
Alternate last pitch for The Joke -- not often repeated. | 5m | |||
5.10 | Punchline
First two pitches as per the joke, then branches right. | 120m, 4 | |||
5.10 | Horror Show for Idiots
Accidentally climbed by someone trying to repeat Queer Duck. Rarely or never repeated. | 140m, 4 | |||
5.10 | ★★ Queer Duck
Not often repeated. | 140m, 4 | |||
5.9 | Prisoners of Mother England
Possibly never repeated. | 4 | |||
5.9 | ★★★ M.F.
"Mike's Farewell". | 130m, 4 | |||
5.3 | ★★ One Pine
Start: about 120m north of the (first) easy way down, at the bottom of a major ramp. The climb generally stays near the outside edge of the ramp.
4(a). 5.5 From the end of the third pitch, there appears to be a good crack going diagonally up to the left. It leads out onto the face. Follow the crack up past one cedar to another one. Climb back up and right to get onto the ramp near the end of the last pitch of the regular route. This variation has been climbed accidentally many times over the years. (Was in the database as "White Pine". There is no such named route at Bon Echo, so guessing the original contributor meant "One Pine", and renamed to that to preserve the ascents.) | 120m, 3 | |||
5.8 A1 | The Rolling Stones
Very rarely climbed. | 120m, 5 | |||
5.7 | The Brass Monkey
Closed route. | ||||
5.6 | Monkeyshines
Closed route. | ||||
5.5 | Calamity
| 43m, 2 | |||
5.6 | Brian's Variation
Variation after the first pitch of Calamity | 48m, 2 | |||
5.10 | Bit of Bother
| 73m, 2 | |||
5.7 | Yellow Fever
| 90m, 3 | |||
5.1 | ★★ Red Groove
An impressive route for beginners. | 80m, 2 | |||
5.7 | Redder Groove
Variation middle pitch for Red Groove | ||||
5.4 | Carver's Variation
Variation for part of 3rd pitch of Red Groove. | ||||
5.11 | ★★ Yonge Street
| 100m, 4 | |||
5.7 | ★★ Paradise Lost
| 70m, 3 | |||
The Gully Joke
Closed climb. | |||||
5.8 | P-H
| 45m, 2 | |||
5.7 | ★★ 318
| 45m, 3 | |||
5.9 | ★★ Winking Crack
| 31m, 2 | |||
5.10 | Gerry DeMaio's Memorial
Rarely to never repeated. | 30m, 2 | |||
5.11b | Popeye
| 32m, 2 | |||
5.11c | Olive Oyl
Variant end for Popeye. Only been top-roped. | 30m | |||
Class 4 | Easy Way Down (1)
Something of a misnomer and dangerous at the best of times. Take great care to avoid dislodging rocks onto the heads of those below. Beginners should be roped and belayed from above. There has been at least on serious accident due to a fall while descending this route. Turn left (towards the lake) near the bottom. At the lake side, at the bottom of Easy Way Down, is a good place to wait for a boat pickup. Just to the south of the pickup point is Turtle Rock, the overhanging rock used by kids (old and young) as a diving board. Turtle Traverse: Start in the water underneath the overhang, climb up and out, mantle, and dive back in. V0. | ||||
5.0 | Jacob's Ladder
| 25m | |||
5.6 | ★★★ Formication & Mac's Book
| 70m, 2 | |||
5.5 | ★★ French Form
(40m) Pitch 1: Start near a large cedar tree. Climb up a leftwards ramp on crumbly rock. Protection is poor for the first 15m. You will reach a rusty piton about 30m up the right side of the ramp. You will eventually reach a 2 bolt belay on a small ledge near a large, dead tree. (30m) Pitch 2: Continue on the slab until you reach a small short wall below two cedar trees. Climb to the right or climb straight up for a harder finish up to a ledge. Walk across 8m of vegetation on the ledge to a 2 bolt belay right under a (~20m) wall. (21m) Pitch 3: Face climbing up to a small overhang at 10m. Pull the overhang or duck right for an easier variation. Belay at the top with 1 bolt and gear. PA: David Atherton & Isla Hoppett, 1964 | 99m, 3, 3 | |||
5.10 | Darlington Country
| 70m, 3 | |||
5.7 | Moonday
| 70m, 3 | |||
5.7 | Mooning Boris
Start on first pitch of Boris, then traverse and finish on 3rd pitch of Moonday. | 70m, 3 | |||
5.5 | ★★★ Boris' Route
Perhaps the best 5.5 at Bon Echo. Goes up the 2nd main diagonal left of the slab/arete of "Birthday Ridge". Look for a bolted anchor on a platform about 2m above lake level.
PA: Boris Dopta & Chalky White, 1960 | 70m, 3 | |||
5.9 | Harmful Armful
| 80m, 4 | |||
5.10 | Spliffgenerates
Not often repeated. | 85m, 3 | |||
5.7 | ★★ Faithful Turkey
| 80m, 3 | |||
5.0 | ★★★ Birthday Ridge
This is Bon Echo's first route, and remains the traditional introduction for beginning climbers. (There is a 5.0 variant.) Start: the tree-filled gully north of The Pinnacle
2a. 30m (5.0) Climb corners and ledges up and left to the silver birch belay at the end of the standard 2nd pitch. (Was in the database as "The Birthday Route". No route with that exact name existed, this seemed the most likely match.) | 90m, 2 | |||
5.4 | ★★ Cool Corner
PA: Jim Mark & Helmut Microys, 1978 | 65m, 2 | |||
5.7 | ★★ Very Thin Nicholas
| 60m, 2 | |||
5.7 | ★ Saucer Lucy
The rap station at the top of Saucer Lucy is the only one at the top of the cliff available to climbers. (If top-roping Saucer Lucy, please use your own 'biners to protect the anchors from wear.) | 60m, 2 | |||
5.3 | Bloody Medoc
Massive rock fall has obliterated this route. Description is in guide only for posterity. | 55m |