Slightly shorter than its neighbor (Cinnamon Bear) across the corridor. Start in the corridor and take a crux chimney to an easy face.

Gummy Bear

Honey Bear

Grizzled Bear

Cinnamon Bear

Ursus Major

Talking Spirits Tower

A nice, tear-shaped tower that is entirely free-standing, but separated by only a tight corridor from the adjacent formation.

This is the best route in the Bear Rocks, offering relatively safe climbing on decent stone. Start on the left rib with crux moves off the ground. Clip the marginal drilled pin (soft rock), move right to a bolt, and then up the headwall past another bolt to anchors below the summit block. Carefully attain the summit and then downclimb back to the anchors.

This rotten red turret sits on the northern outskirts of the Bear Rocks. It is a dangerous route which is not recommended. Take a wide crack past a huge hollow flake to a notch below the summit ridge. Climb up to the top and back to the notch. There is a single piton in the notch for an anchor; simul-rap off opposing sides of the tower.

From the corridor move up to a ledge, wiggle up the prickly, crux chimney and then up the easy face to the summit. There are no good anchors up top, so you must downclimb the route.

The showpiece pinnacle of the Bear Rocks, this 80 freestanding spire is readily visible from Highway 14. Start on the uphill side, where a faint trail runs adjacent to the base. Boulder up an arete diagonal cracks and a bulge; from the sloping ledge surmount the crux crack through the upper bulge and into easier terrain to the top.

An indistinct tower with two flying buttresses. Stem and jam an offwidth crack for 40 to a ledge, tackle a 10 chimney on the right, traverse to the left-hand rib of the tower and crimp past the bolt to the summit.

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Routes in Bear Rocks