Battle your way through the bush at the base. Climb easy rock foreplay to the third bolt, clip this, and you have the protection needed for the bulge ahead of you. Make 5.9+ moves for the next three bolts, and reach the climax of the climb at the anchor. As with all routes in the area, there is some loose rock left of the route.

Daddy Didn't Need No Magnum

The Honeymoon Is Over

Induced Labor

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

The 16 Men of Tain

Natural Born Drilla

Born On The Fourth

Drilla From Manilla

Old School

The Squidge

Snail Trail

Drill for the Thrill

User's Choice

Evil Empire

Crowd Control

User's choice, you can either climb the face of the arete or squeeze into the offwidth on the right.

This route hits you right off the ground with a stout boulder problem, which is reachy from bolt 1 to 2 to get to the right hand pocket. Power your way past this first bulge, and crawl into a no-hands rest up and left in the shallow, right-facing corner. You get a major rest here, but it's not over until you climb through the thin, back-to-back 5.12 sequences towards the top.

This route is a fun 12c if you aid past the first crux and start in the no-hands rest that is just left of the 5th bolt.

Condition update: the opening crux is a bit harder now that a hold has broken

Start on a lieback flake. The crux is in the lower section of the route. We did this route back in 2010.

Shorty, quality route that climbs good limestone with one definite crux.

Since everything on the left side of the Prow is easier, you might expect this one to follow suit. Not so. It gets stiffer and stiffer as you get higher, so don't be fooled into warming up here, or you'll be climbing

Daddy

to get back that 7th or 8th draw.

(I don't know what the official rating is; this was just a guess, to dissuade fools like me from warming up, and there likely is a more proper name, but some punks have scratched this phrase into the rocks.)

Eds. The name has been updated.

This shares the start with

Drill for the Thrill

, then it heads right. It stays a bit cruxy for three bolts at mid route.

Start climbing on the east side of the buttress, and after the second bolt, go left and climb the south face. It has a lot of different types of climbing from thin face to fun, steep, jug hauling.

This has solid stone and really fun climbing. It is a tad run out in a couple of spots, particularly to the anchors. That being said, this route has been the first 5.9 lead for at least two climbers, with no complaints from either one. No FA beta is available, so I've taken the liberty to give the route a name more interesting than "un-named". If anyone has FA beta, let me know.

It definitely was quite dirty and not very long, but this could clean up to be a decent route. It has a high first bolt, and I felt the crux was getting off the ground.

Snail Trail is another fun route. It is well-protected.

Drill for the Thrill shares the start with

Natural Born Drilla

. The steep crux is about mid-route.

See the

The Prow topo.

.

Start under the big roof. The first couple bolts are on vertical rock - you'll find the crux here. The route underclings, liebacks, and stems to the anchors. The rock quality deteriorates as the route goes vertical, but the climbing is easy and well protected. Wear a helmet and have fun!

See the

The Prow topo.

for location.

This is on the buttress just right of

Drilla From Manilla

.  Start at the top of the pillar that splits The Prow in two.

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Location

Protection

Routes in The Prow