Start underneath the right side of the large detached boulder about 7 feet up, at a vertical crack. Head up the vertical crack, and gain the arete. Follow it to the top. Great moves.

Testicular Trauma

There is No Spoon

Hound Dog

Fafnir

The Fuzz

Gentlemen Return Fire

Billy Get Your Guns

Crankzilla

Earth Dragon

Chossy?

Chopper Noise

Dragon's Belly

Shit Load of Chips

PROJECT

Paper Mache

Too Many Video Games

Hashtag, Swag, Yolo

Flake n' Take

Treehugger

Start at the bottom of a big detached boulder that forms a left facing corner. Head up the corner and gain the top of the block. Move right and head to the next left facing corner. Use the face/corner to head straight up to the top. 

  The route name comes from the route being great for kids. If they have trouble gaining ground on rock - just hug the tree!

Top rope only unless you free solo. 

  Start 5 feet left of the black streak on "imaginary holds" to the top. In other words, it seems impossible, but the holds are there. May be easier if you're shorter.

A really painful but fun climb that has an awkward dyno. Start with the vertical knife-edge crack and work straight up past the overhang to gain a moderate edge. The slightly protruding rail to the right is on (I've seen this rail used as a foot for Billy Get Your Guns). Pull a desperate dyno to the extra lumpy hold on the rail (crux). Continue up the chossy face to the top.

Up the crack, which goes up to right-facing corner crack. Finish to big left-pointing tree (more horizontal than vertical), which is above obvious right-facing corner with wider crack. 

  Variation: Start up the shorter crack to the right. 

warning: The rock around this sector has not been climbed much yet, and much of the rock is still breakable and loose -- so the belayer and other people should stand far away from underneath the climber.

Start in blocky alcove below obvious crack that leans left towards the top. Easy start quickly changes to 5.9ish crack climbing (some jams, mostly pulls and liebacks).

The route starts in the vertical hand pockets and goes up left to a small horizontal with slopey crimps and straight up from there. The route can be crumbly due to it not having being climbed a lot.

Up over right side of roof, then up face to the top. 

warning: The rock around this sector has not been climbed much yet, and much of the rock is still breakable and loose -- so the belayer and other people should stand far away from underneath the climber.

Center of the Basilisk wall. Scramble up the rocks to the moss covered arete - obviously pointing out of the depression in the center of the wall. First gear is pretty high. Unless the moss reveals something lower, it's not recommended for trad.

Begin in some block cracks and gain the "sideways" arch with a sapling growing out of it. Head up and move under and left of the sapling and up the crack. Top out.  

  Can be dusty and/or dirty.

Start right of small birch. Large block and mossy crack with ferns are off. Follow up to very small under-cling and traverse a bit right to pull small block. Once a top big ledge traverse left to right facing flakes and finish to top.

Using the left facing flake system head up some easy holds to big under clings. Move up over the under clings staying right of the small sapling in the diagonal crack (crux) and up to horizontals and top out.

Starts up in a small alcove to an obvious left leaning crack to the top. It is the first major crack right of TT Arete. If you can bear the sharp rock there are some solid opportunities for jams.

The face climb between Dragon's Belly and Fafnir. Discontinuous cracks can be used. Easy TR set up.

This is a project. Please contact Norm Rasmussen on Facebook or in the facebook group "Powerlinez-Beta Shed" if you've completed this route.

Just right of Chopper Noise. 10ish face climbing, using the flake system to the left is just off limits.

History of this is a little foggy, but climbed by Nick Fern and Matt Ratajczak sometime between 2012 and 2013 for a Top Rope First Ascent.  

  Start below a vertical seam. Gain that and get some good footing before heading straight up to the top.

Super classic route - fun moves, great pump, good (sometimes marginal) holds, and worth all the effort! 

  Climb up the center of the obvious black streak on the left side of the Basilisk wall on razor holds. Some holds include a half moon and a chicken head. Avoid the moss at the top to the left and top out.

Starts 10 feet right of TMVG, using another vertical weakness. Head up, and once at the vertical seam move right up to horizontals. Stay left of the small sapling growing out of the diagonal crack and head to the top.

One of the wider walls at Powerlinez, with lots of face climbing, some short cracks on the right. 

  Faces SSW, so often warm on winter afternoons, cool on summer mornings. 

  The flat area not far from the bottom of the cliff can be swampy -- so think about insect protection (or avoidance at times of likely high insect activity). 

Top-Roping: Usually easiest with a long static line from a tree set back from the top of the cliff - (sometimes helps to rappel or down-climb a short ways below the top to set the carabiners lower so to avoid drag / abrasion of belay rope running over the top edge).   Some routes offer the alternative of building an anchor near the by placing multiple pieces of Trad protection gear.   Reach the top of the cliff by scrambling up around the left or right side.

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Routes in 9. Basilisk