Sustained climbing, but you knew that because you are at The Pile. This climb is a lot easier (off-route) if you get your feet on the left of the arete.  Enjoy the pump.

Gomer Pile

Bloody Stitches

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Right Pile

Pile Surgery

Pile Traverse

Left Pile

Dog Pile

Good warm up trav at the bottom of the wall. You can do it from either right or left. If you stop on the good jugs at the right, it's probably v0. If you continue clearly into the choss past the right side of the cliff, it is a v1-2 transition onto that wall.

Fun stuff, good way to warm up before tying into the wall, and this section of the cliff is clean.

Woo, overhanging quartzite!

Start off up a faint dihedral left of the belay, and scramble left and up an easy slab for a couple moves (watch for loose rock here) to reach where the angle kicks back. From here, engaging moves on underclings lead to the lip and a crimpy easier top.

Please refrain from leaving gear on this route due to its visual impact and the proximity to the waterfall. The crux is easy enough to pull past, and cleaning the route is trivial while lowering.

Unknown route left of Gomer Pile. If you know the name/FA party etc, please post up and I'll edit.

Start on right pile, and finish on left pile. Clip the first bolt on right pile, go left out the flake and climb into left pile, clip the third bolt and fire the crux.

A fun link-up to do after you've already done left and right pile. Might be the hardest at the crag.

One of BCC's best fitness routes, and a great intro to steep climbing.  Many a climber's first 5.11d.  The rock isn't the best, but for a quick pump it's hard to beat.  Better early before the sun and late when the sun is to the west.  Often twenty degrees cooler than the S-Curves.

Climb through the first three bolts of the left pile (12b) and then do some long traversing moves on good holds to link into the right pile (11d) jug.

Once at the Pile area, this route is directly to the right of Gomer Pile and shares anchors with it.  Getting up to the third bolt is pretty easy, with it being 5.10 climbing.  Clipping the fourth bolt is a challenge as you're on a small, somewhat slopey hold.  After that, is the crux of the climb, then huge jugs the rest of the way up.

The furthest right line of 4 bolts.  Steep and pumpy, with no resting.  Pump it out.

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Routes in S-Curve - The Pile