'In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

A stately pleasure-dome decree...'

-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This route got its name from the pure waters that flow at its base from the rainy season until mid-may or so. The waters are filtered through the sacred stone of the diamond area. The stoke will get you warm and fired up for the rest of your Rattletale adventures.

Step over the fountain into semi awkward start with a bonus #6 placement for kicks, and lead into an awesome low angle tight #4 crack.

Gain the ledge, face-y climbing leads to the crux, finish with stellar jams to the fat double nine links that await you at the top.

Squamish sending optional tree beta if desired!

Kubla Khan and the Fountain of Eternal Stoke

The Millipede

The Womb

The Snake

The Source

The Shrew

Avenging the Goddess Kring

The Orangutan

The Wasp

ze Squid

Jane Goodall

Rattletale

The Claw

Chasin' the Lizard

The Amphibian

The Bonobo

The Cricket

Avenging the Goddess Kring (Short)

Splitter highball boulder problem or top rope.

Climb the chimney right of The Amphibian. Stem up and utilize positive face holds. There is only one #4 Camelot and one #1 Camelot in addition to five bolts. Unique warm up and a great way to get a toprope on The Amphibian.

Start up knobs and moving left into a mantle past the first bolt. Continue into a thin crack and another mantle to a ledge. Make some catwalk moves out left into a corner. Alternatively, one could finish the crack direct and end at The Shrew/Ze Squid Anchors.

Climb either The Cricket Or The Claw to access belay ledge at base of The Shrew. Climb up cool opposing flakes and knobs past bolts to a no hand hands rest on a large ledge. Boulder up the slightly overhung juggy arete to an anchor up on a ledge. This route can be top roped by walking past  The Source and heading up hill.

Pitch 1) 10a. Mixed. A bit convoluted but fun climbing. Not sure how they intended the start, I stemmed off tree, but you could approach off the Lizard slab to the right. If you stem off the tree, there is some trad pro near start, then 2 bolt flaring stem box ( crux) fingers- hands- OW ( shared with Lizard), then traverse to single bolt on left slab, balance around corner to bolted belay. Spent some time cleaning this with my friend Bill on 2/24/16.

The first ascent team calls this 10a, I would give it a 10b

Pitch 2) Short 5.9, pass 2 bolts with face climbing into corner ( fingers-hands crack)to big ledge above with good bolted chain anchor. Make 2 single rope raps or double rope rap to ground. This ledge is 40m up.Bill Ayre cleaned this 2/24/16.

The first ascent team calls this 5.9, maybe 10a.

Pitch 3) 12a, 6 bolts, bolted anchor. Some very small gear might work but it is well bolted. Was a bit spooky and committing for me, still a project for me, but should be pretty easy for a 5.12 climber.

Others are calling this pitch 11c.The grade was what the first ascent team gave it, I guess others think it is easier.

Boulder problem off the ground past a bolt to reach the right leaning seam. Place couple tcus and climb good holds to get to first crux. Clip a bolt and climb knobs to good sidepulls out right. Boulder through slopey knobs to second crux. Clip last bolt off huge knob and thumbpress to clip the  chains.

Climb the tree, Squamish style, and work up a seam on an arete to a sting in the tail slab crux. Excellent.

The original route starts on the ledge, but a better version starts on "The Cricket" (5.6 twin cracks to the left) and traverses to the ledge. With small gear in the offset crack, climb face features to a 5.9 slab crux. Stand up to clip a bolt, then bust somewhat cryptic moves to a finishing jug at the top of the face. Cross the 5.0R slab, then layback the short splitter .5 crack to a ledge. A final 5.9 move guards the chains. You can also finish the route on the upper half of "The Shrew"(powerful, bouldery layback arete with bolts).

"The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours.

I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad,

and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky." -J.G.

Bring your stem game on this one! Work through the bulge with powerful stemming and crimping- expect the difficulty to vary with height. Take some time to enjoy the beautiful crystals before Jane sics her chimps on you. Truly enjoyable face and feature climbing leads to the anchors.

This is one of Index's finest hand cracks and well worth the approach hike. Has three short, but athletic, pitches.

P1: Start on some broken face cracks trending up and left to a nice right-facing corner. Crux is low in the corner. End at large ledge.

P2: Prominent hand crack in a right-leaning, right-facing corner. Crack which starts as perfect hands and finishes as wide hands (or layback).

P3: Deep corner slot, also right-facing, with two cracks. You can do a wide stem and jam the thinner, right crack. The crack widens at the top, but you can reach in deep for hand jams. The top is an incut edge, bordering on the forest.

Lower from the P3 bolted anchor and have your follower clean the anchor and then lower back to the P2 bolted anchor. A single rap with double 60-m will reach the ground. (Or, walk a short distance up and left to get to the classic Zipper pitch.)

Start in the right side of the wall. Pull a couple of 5.9 moves to reach a quick rest at the first bolt. Enter into a short but stout sequence to a knob followed by some good ol' index'ing. Follow the crack and finish up on some easy slab.

This pitch has it all from hands,fingers,stemming, and offwidth.  It deserves to see more traffic. The route starts out in the right hand of two crack systems.  Hand jams lead up to the left facing corner.  Continue up the corner (fingers) to the stem box above.  Continue stemming and grunting up the wide crack and chimney to the shared anchor (2nd pitch of Avenging the Goddess Kring).  2 single 60m raps or one double rap with get you back to the ground.

Scramble up gully and pre clip the  2nd bolt. Funky laybacking leads past first bolt to crimpy section at second bolt. Perplexing jugs lead past couple bolts to last bolt where a compression boulder problem guards the chains! Better lead than top roped. You can skip the final crux by going around to left side of arete if going direct is too tricky. Not all climbs need to be over bolted. If you need bolts every 4 feet look elsewhere.

This line frees the first few meters of Arch Enemy and joins The Orangutan at the second bolt.The Bonobo is a bit spicier than its neighbor, but the crux of both routes immediately follows the second bolt; the sequence is tenuous, powerful, and balance-y.

This is an aesthetic line with flowy dynamic and high tension movement on fingerlocks, crimps, knobs and one amazing thumbdercling.

The one and only cricket. A fun climb that provides easy access to The Snake and The Shrew. It also provides access to top rope The Claw.

(Established as a free solo to access the harder upper pitches. Given the length and easier grade, others may simply "boulder" this entry pitch as well.)

This route seems to get neglected most likely because the grade of the last pitch deters folks from giving it a good look.  Pitches 1 and 2 are really a lot of fun and attainable by the masses. As of August 2020, pitch 1 needs a little scrubbing. Pitch 2 needs some gardening and the bolts on  pitch 2 do need replacing.  Both anchors are SS and replaced within the last 5 years.

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