Good beginner route. This route climbs the right side of Owl Slab past four bolts. Paddle up the featured slab using large rounded holds, depressions, and fiction. Due the the angle of the slab Route 1 often collects leaves and debris. 

Man Handed

Rodeo Queen

Green Peas

Peace Offering

Betty

Part Eagle, Part Lion

Route 2 climbs the steeper slab ten feet left of Route 1 using smaller edges and holds then Route 1. There is a TR variation possible just to the left makes it a 5.6.

Rodeo Queen climbs the left side of Owl Slab. Scramble onto the shelf just right of where it ends below the bulge. Climb nice edges, depressions, and rounded knobs up the slab, right of a small pine tree. A thin move on thin crimps and poor feet near the top leads to the anchor.

Peace Offering climbs to the highest aspect of Owl Slab,  just right of the center of the formation,  past five bolts. The first bolt is somewhat left of the rest of the bolt line due to rock quality. Climb the slab on good edges and fiction to pull the overlap/bulge past the fifth bolt to the anchor.

Scramble up onto the shelf,  left of the center of Owl Slab. Pull onto the slab to a high first bolt. Follow small edges and crimps to an incipient crack/seam. Continue up the slab to the anchor as the seams arches right. A little more vertical, slabby then the routes to the right.

Scramble onto the shelf left of the Oceanspray Bush. Pull into a large depression and the 1st bolt. Follow small crimps and features up the face to an anchor with chains. A 5.8 move will be encountered along the way.

This route climbs the longest and most direct line to the top of Owl Slab. The climb follows a line of stud/wedge bolts up the slab utilizing small edges and friction to pull the overlap at its left edge. 

Owl Slab is a road cut created by the Civilian Conservation Corp while building a road to the summit of Marys Peak between 1938 and 1941. The slab is composed of andesite, like Flagstone and French's Dome.  Owl Slab was given its name by Paul Waters as the result of an encounter with an owl while toproping the slab. While short, the routes on Owl Slab are fun and excellent training for aspiring sport and/or slab climbers. The routes range from 5.1 to 5.8 in difficulty. Owl Slab currently hosts seven bolted sport routes.  The four routes on the right side of the slab were bolted by Josh Norris and his crew in the winter of 2009/2010 for the Adventure Leadership Institute (ALI) Rock 2 course, while the three routes on the left side of the slab were bolted by Ben Chapman & Pam Neal in 2016. If you don't lead, you can scramble to the top of Owl Slab through the woods to the left and set up TR on the anchors. Be careful as the anchors are situated below the top.

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Routes in Owl Slab