This tall and shady wall normally has a short climbing season in the fall, due to raptor nesting closures from mid-January to August 1.  The rock quality is good and the climbing is exposed due to the undercut wall, so it is a cool route that people may do after they have climbed at the Pinnacles for awhile.  This route needs some time to dry out after rain, because the first pitch crosses a water streak that stays wet due to moss in the waterstreak slowly releasing water.

p1. 5.9 R.  The start is quite mossy, and the trick is to locate the bolts and find the good knobs under the moss.  If water is dripping down from the waterstreak, this creates a 5.10 R crux due to some slippery wet knobs.

p2. 5.11a  Head up the steep bolt ladder on great rock.  5.11 cruxes are found near the first bulge, and up high about 2 bolts from the top where you climb right of the bolts.  If you don't want to go any higher, you can rappel 165' to the ground from the anchor atop this pitch.

p3. 5.7 R.  Wander up the face with a few bolts and gear to a two bolt anchor.

p4. 5.9.  Diagonal left past 5 bolts to the exit waterchute.  Belay from two bolts.

The walk off descent from the top of Resurrection Wall is tricky, going down a 3rd class slab on the west face.  Alternatively, during the rebolting, a 2 bolt rappel anchor with rings was placed at the top of the wall directly above the p3 anchor(about 50 feet north of the two-bolt anchor at the top of pitch 4).  Climb carefully (belayed) down to this anchor, then rap about 180' to the top of p2.  Rap 165' to the bottom of the wall(be careful of poison oak at the base) from there.

Resurrection Wall

The Great Spectacular

Right of the Regular Route. This route has had some solid attempts at freeing it by some very talented climbers. The route seems to have a bit of a cult following.

First pitch takes some trad gear up to #1 or #2 cam. Then bolts. Aid section at the end of Pitch 1. Pitch 2 traverses into a water streak. Pitch 3 up the water streak.

We pulled a 400lb block loose at the 4th bolt on P1 and gave up. S

o maybe that section is harder now (feels 11+ now there).

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Routes in Resurrection Wall