Difficult start.   begin by scrambling up and left of the first pitch of pinhead. Starting under a triangle shaped pod, go up trending slightly right until you reach  good ledges next to the perfect left arcing hand crack. climbing up through this section is possibly made easier by an old piton scar.   After the tricky bottom section, work left toward the amazing arcing hand crack (probably the coolest crack on the swamp slabs). 

   - continue up the top of debut or scramble over to treebeard, or just scramble all the way left and back down to the base.

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Dislocation Buttress

Dislocation Direct

Green Horns

Green Dagger

Beginner

Debut

Tread "more" Gently

Pinhead

Tread Gently

Fantastic climbing and a great intro climb to Granite Mountain.  Debut begins about 10 feet to the left of a large pine on the Pine Tree Ledge.   

  Pitch 1: Follow the shallow cracks up to a small roof.  Pull the roof to the right on good jugs.  Then follow a double crack system up to a gully to the right of a few bushes. 5.4 150'  

  Pitch 2: The money pitch and a classic for the grade.  Step across the gully to the right and make a few mantel moves up to a big ledge.  Continue up the hand to finger crack on the right.  Then face climb towards a huge roof; pull the roof on the right and continue up a gorgeous dihedral that turns into clean liebacking to a big ledge.  5.5 150' 

  Descent:  Walk left from the ledge and follow a faint trail back to the Pine Tree Ledge.

This climb starts right where the swamp slab trail hits the wall. Look for the obvious crack/chimney that extends about 100ft up the wall. That's your first pitch. The route then follows a short traverse left to the next belay. After that its straight up with the exception of a short hand traverse on pitch 4. If you avoid the traverse and head up a seam on the left, it's dislocation direct (5.6). The last pitch is class 4 and then walk/scramble off to the left. Take care at the top!All pitches except the first are short. You could run them together but there would be some rope drag. Hard work getting to the climb but worth the effort.

Start on Pine Tree ledge about 30' left of the start to the Dislocation standard route. Climb obvious crack systems straight up to a ledge (optional belay) and follow more nice cracks up and left (where the standard route traverses right) to a belay nearly 60m ropelength up. From here climb a corner to a ledge, a short face section, and another corner to the top. An excellent and mellow adventure.

(only climbed first pitch - linked with Green Dagger)   Obvious left-facing dihedral for ~100'   Crux is near the top of the pitch as the corner leans left

P1- climb face through horizontal cracks up to large ledge at top of butress (110') 5.4   P2 - climb nice corner to the right of a clean slab; step right at the top to large ledge; a bit tougher than it looks (100') 5.5   P3 - climb gully & flakes mostly on the left side up to a tree, then step right to an easy layback flake and continue to top (110') 5.4

P1: Climb up the left facing crack to a bushy terrace. P2: Climb up thin disjointed crack systems. I used the large splitter crack as a belay. You should pass an old piton. P3: Continue up thin cracks.

 Either walk off or use the rap station. It's been a few years but I believe you can fix a 60m rope and it will be just a few shy to the bottom.

To my knowledge, this pitch isn't noted or illustrated in any guidebook. Climb the blocky corner described under "Location" using the corner and the beautiful crack just left of it (5.5). As you top out on the blocky corner continue up the crack. Make a funky traverse move onto a ledge, move left on the ledge to a R facing corner crack and bulge to a stance below a beautiful lieback crack up the slabs to Pine Tree Ledge (5.7). Pretty High Quality!.. And you're all set up to continue up Tread Gently.

P1- ?did not climb   P2 - from first belay on Green Horns/Green Dagger traverse left 20' to vertical crack; climb until this peters out and move right to rounded ledge (5.9 & ~scary); straight up face past a bolt (5.9PG) or work left after bolt to a crack (5.10-?; PG)   P3 - ?

Start on Pine Tree Ledge about 50' right and around the corner from Dislocation Buttress. Look for face features leading to a diagonal crack about 10' off the ledge. Crank up to this crack (engaging!) and get some gear, then follow it up and left. Then climb vertical cracks to a ledge belay. From here, locate the right facing corner/overhang above. Climb up to this and jam/lieback/undercling out the bulge and around the corner (crux.) From there its easy cracks to the top.

The Swamp Slabs is the leftmost section of Granite Mountain, from the Swamp Slabs Route over to Tread Gently. Most of the Swamp Slabs routes can be reached from Pine Tree Ledge, a prominent shelf cutting across the bottom of the Swamp Slabs area. The routes here are mostly easy to moderate, on good rock and offer good pro and very nice climbing. 

  The standard descent for the Swamp Slabs area is to hike off slabs on the left (northern) end of the mountain and then scramble down to reach Pine Tree Ledge from there. This can be tricky the first time, but if you look carefully, you can see signs of previous passage.

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Location

Protection

Routes in Swamp Slabs