Start stemming at Shot in the Back. Traverse left on the horizontal, often one-knuckle, cracks and generally bad feet, and finish stemming on the left. Fun for a traverse, tentatively graded V2. Hard moves close to the ground!

Catherine's Traverse

Round Up

Fire in the Hole

John's Belt Buckle

Raw Hide

Seven Shooter

Ten Gallons

Shot in the Back (Stem)

Coroner's Corner

Shot In the Back

Sheriff A.N.

Arleerette

Dusti Chaps

Flexible SOB

Fun for the grade but dirty. This boulder is rarely climbed.

Straight up the middle of the route, just left of the bigger lip (Flexible SOB)

RIght arete and top-out. Slabby on the front side, and some good holds. Walk-off descent, but you have to scramble around some. 

Mix of slopers, crimps, and horizontal cracks. Crux 3/4ths of the way up. Good feet for resting, but the slopers near the top are evil if not cleaned well or wet.

Felt crimpy for a 5.6, it's the middle line. If I graded it, I'd say ~5.8. Quite dirty, but could feel true to grade if cleaned better.

Start on left arete (#12) and top-out. Mix of stemming and slabby climbing on horizontal cracks. Great first highball.

Crux is 3/4 up the climb, most climbers dyno to nice, positive hold from a sloper OR a two-finger pocket, and a crimp. A Bilger's classic. This is probably the hardest climb in the Duke, a true 5.10a grade. Rated it V2 as it's a true V0+ move with highball consequences and to keep it relative to the surrounding boulders. Those with weak head game or short reach may find Arleerette (V2) harder.

Stand start on the left arete. No stemming, quite slabby, and definitely hella soft for the grade (V4). Walk-off descent, scramble around boulders until you're near the entrance of the Duke, and then scramble down.

Stand start in the middle of the boulder and ride the beefy ledges up the slab to topout. Easy, but chossy. A good clean and it would be a great TR problem for munchkins.

Up the right arete and top-out. Easy climbing after the crux in the middle. Meaty ledge for resting if you have zero endurance. Closer to grade than many other climbs at the Duke. NOT A WALK-OFF DESCENT. MUST DOWNCLIMB. Definitely a do not fall zone 3/4 up and beyond, and hard to protect with pads.

Rock "room" surrounded by several ~30 foot boulders. Highballs can be toproped.

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Routes in The Duke