This is the last bolted route in the cave.  Probably the steepest climb of its grade on the Pass!  Jug haul through overlaps, wrapping your body around various features to minimize the pump.

Escher's Staircase

The Troll

The Dragon's Hoard (tenative name)

We Squeezes

Lichentology

Bilbo Baggins

Choke Hold

My Precioussss

Master of Reality

Off the Edge

This is not necessarily a new route.  It may be a forgotten project or a re-equipping of an old, unrecorded route.  There was a single, old rusty and suspect pin lost in the moss at half height (now replaced by a bolt).  There may have been more that have fallen out, or have been claimed by the moss in the cracks.  There is no information that I can find about it and no recorded first ascent.  If anyone has such info, please post it to the comments and I will update it.*

Like the Dragon's Treasure in The Hobbit, this route is a lost treasure.  This treasure is a line of bomber, overhanging jugs separated by a tricky but interesting crux.  At the second bolt, you hug a pillar and slap a horn.  If you like overhanging jug hauls, then this one is for you.  One of the best climbs in Gollum's Cave.

This is the 1st route you will encounter when entering the area from left.  A few awkward moves & some small gear make for an interesting pitch.

Sit start in the back of the cave on chunky edges, under a mini-roof within, climb out the long, horizontal 'fridge feature with compression, heel-toe cams, and so on to a kind of high finish up a mossy face. The holds are clean, though... felt like V12, could be V11...you know.

Starts just right of

Master of Reality

.  Trend up & right along a very thin seam.  For full value you can rest on the small ledge without stepping off right onto the boulder & finish up

Off the Edge

.

This is the 1st route you see on the main wall of the upper section.  Fun & pumpy climbing on rounded, bulbous holds that generally face the wrong way & never quite feel juggy enough.  Proper technique & body postioning will pay off large on this route.

This has really cool climbing out a huge, horizontal roof. Start on a detached block at the back of the cave, get a heel-toe cam, lean WAAY back and reach NO HANDED to jug slopers. Climb out the roof passing an awesome pinch. Climb into the top out of

We Squeezes

. Long-ish!

Right near the small tree close to the wall.  A very bouldery, dynamic start through the 1st 2 bolts to sustained climbing above.  This route brings quite a pump despite its short length!

Classic.  The obvious crack in a corner that goes out the big roof directly overhead.  Located after

The Troll

& before you have to scramble up big blocks to the upper section.  Start laybacking/stemming a finger crack to a rest at the base of the roof.  Place gear, chalk up & get ready to fight for those last 12 feet to the chains.  Most will find getting into the roof itself to be the crux.

This route is immediately up & right of the finish for

Lichentology

.  Short but severe on the fingers.  Step off the block & over the void, climbing thin crimps & slots to the top of the short wall.

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Routes in Gollum's Cave