Crux is pulling the small roof about 15' up.   Marginal gear here - done clean on FA-however a fall would be a deck on a ledge.    Much thought was given about this bolt- this is an Amazing first lead for breaking into the 5.8 trad the bolt allows piece of mind for the new leader. The rest of route is  5.7ish   Awesome finger-hand crack follows crux!!! 

  Legend has it the late Dan Crain was working this line before his untimely passing.

Remembering The Crain

Raspberry Blossoms

Itching Stemroidal Flare Up

Raspberry Corn Flakes

Locate a shallow left facing corner about 20' left of Raspberry Corn Flakes. Start by pulling a very dicey move off a boulder at the base. After pulling the first crux it is possible to get some solid gear. Follow the finger crack as it widens to a set of anchors. I might add a bolt to the start to make future ascents more pleasant.

This route is a right facing, slightly rightward trending dihedral about twelve feet left of the route "Raspberry Corn Flakes". There is a small pine tree growing from the left wall about 40 feet up. Start out by scrambling up a set of blocks to the base of the dihedral. Stay in the dihedral and eventually the route merges into "Raspberry Corn Flakes" just below the roof. The more centered (to the right) in the dihedral you stay the more difficult this route will be. 

  It is possible to bail left out of the dihedral at the pine tree. This variation is about 5.10c/d and features an independent more direct bolted finish up a slab and ove a roof. This variation is named "Cooling Relief". Once again about 14 quickdraws constitute the rack. The F.A. of this variation was climbed by Brent Kertzman and Tony Mraz in Oct. 2003.

This route follows the left side of a large well attached flake below a roof. The route ascends a rightward diagonaling corner into a flared hand crack. It may seem strange for a hand crack to be bolted. After the first couple of jams a nice layback edge appears in the right side of the crack. This forms a very large flake that is only about one foot thick. Placing gear in this crack would not be a good idea if one had to test it...Hence the bolts. Make sure to climb it before you condemn it.

As the name implies this wall faces west/southwest. The wall wall grow to a height of 100+' very quickly as one descends the trail from after leaving the old two track road. There are a handfull of climbs on the first section of cliff you will encounter. The rock tends to be steeper slabs and the exfoliated nature of Raspberry Rocks can be quite pronouced in this area. There is potential for more new routing on this section of the formation.

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Routes in West Face