PTSD...post traumatic stress disorder or something else?  Hmmm.

This was a decent, heavily bolted line with a line that felt contrived for the bulk of the first pitch, but it makes up for it with its short second pitch.

According to

Lew Strong

, "the overbolting was due to some scary lead bolting. The plan is to sort the bolts out a bit at some point."

Start in a little alcove.  The more you try to stay on the face, the more difficult the first pitch will be.  At times, it feels like you may not find a way to avoid the groove on the right at less than a 5.11 grade.  At least you will never feel runout on this climb; however, you may develop a guilt trip.  After about two-third's the way up the first pitch, you will swing right onto the arete and right face. There are interestingly 4 bolts from which you can anchor.  The belay to the right with feet on a ledge will feel more comfy.

For pitch two, you will no longer be able to scum off the right groove.  You must climb the arete.  The difficulty is less.  There is a funky second bolt mid-pitch.  You may find a friable feldspar flake in here.  A bit of breeze will make this pitch more memorable.  Unfortunately, the pitch ends far before you would like.

Addendum: P1 has been rebolted, the holes patched, and it no longer resembles the initial effort.  The change is that p1 cuts left up the center of the slab and has several 10a spots in the upper third. It is 95 feet and 10 bolts. At the top of the flake there are two options for P2:  1. continue straight up 50 more feet with 5 bolts at 10c.  2. step right to the anchors, turn the corner and climb the right edge of the arete at 5.9 with 5 bolts. The two options share the same anchors.

Rap ~60 feet, then rap again ~95'.

PTSD

Arachnophobia

Not My Tick To Bear

Barock

Tick Fever

Just One Tick Away

Nervous Tic

Green Flash

Tic, Tac, Toe

Ixodes

This line seems so obvious, but given the flakes cleaned, it appears it has not received any attention. It is

most definitely adventure climbing

with some grittiness, a few wobbly chockstones, and a fragile flake or two to spice it up.  The crack affords fingers, hands, fists, and even a bit of offwidth.  So, come prepared for

a sport climber's bad dream

.

We'd recommend keeping the belayer well down and right of the climb protected by a big flake. Start up an interesting crack on the left that opens up beyond its edges. Make a slightly balancy move right into the obvious, main crack using a big chockstone that didn't seem to move. Head up the crack that offers big edges to the side of the crack almost whenever you need them. Find a near vertical section at mid-height.  Check out the wild, thin flakes out right. Near the top, there is a mobile chockstone that was stable enough for a judicious foot placement. You can finish in the obvious split or continue up easy jugs to the top of the pinnacle (and downclimb 20' back to the split).

Walk off slippery slopes down the backside. If you drag up a timid soul, you may consider lowering 'em off the front first.

Did you know ticks and spiders are related?  This previously top roped route follows the line of bolts that diagonals right along the obvious weakness on the right side of the Tick Rock Slab.  It has great rock and is probably the best beginner lead in the area.

This route is 2nd from the left, between

Ixodes

and

Nervous Tic

.  It heads up the obvious, slanting, offwidth crack.  After 30 feet, the crack ends, and the climb heads straight up the slab. Originally this required gear, but after I realized that most sport climbers don't carry #6 Camalots, I put a couple of bolts next to the crack.  No gear other than draws is needed.  The cruxes are the upper part of the offwidth, and higher up on the slab.

This is the rightmost route on the Tick Rock slab.  Start approximately 30 feet right of

Arachnophobia

and climb past eight bolts to the

Arachnophobia

anchors.

If you climb

Ixodes

, you may just be drawn to a fracture just to the right and wonder.  Turns out, the rock is actually better than

Ixodes

, it's far less than vertical, and the moves are a bit easier, too.

At best, this could be a headpoint with the first good pro 35-40' up.  It's probably a wiser TR.  You can reduce the swing with a green Alien/#2 Camalot, #4 BD wire, #0 TCU.

Start to the right of the fracture line under a big knob.  Move up to the knob.  A hold or two on the right makes this easier.  Mantle or semi-mantle onto the knob.  Find nice features on either side of the fracture.  Continue past the slight opening in the crack.  Continue to the right on fun flakes.  Move left at a ledge.  Continue up a groove to the right of the anchors for

Ixodes

.

This route follows approximately [now 9] bolts to a two bolt anchor.  It starts just left of

Arachnophobia

.

A second pitch, 5.9-9+, has been added that follows 6 more bolts up the slab.

This route climbs the dihedral and arete on the left side of the green face at the top of the Tick Rock approach gully.

Begin below the left edge of the face, climb to the large quartz crystals then step right into the dihedral. Follow the dihedral and arete to the anchors.  Either lower from there or scramble 15 feet to the anchors at the top of the first pitch of

PTSD

and finish with its second pitch.

The rock is somewhat flaky, and as of this writing, there is only one bolt at the anchor.

This line may have been ascended previously...there is a ratty sling above with links, but this may be a rap line for the development of the slab routes above?  If it was climbed previously, maybe a while ago, since the cracks required some excavation and cleaning or just on TR.

This is a line that ascends a crack system left of

Barock

until it peters out.  It goes to a tiny bulge staying slightly left, skirts right at the bulge, and then pieces together some nice face features with tricky pro.  There are 2 finishes.  The left-angling finish is less runout.  The right, black streak finish is exciting on some still-shedding rock.

This is the leftmost route on the Tick Rock slab.  It follows a line of bolts just right of a shallow, right-facing dihedral/flake to a two bolt anchor.  The flake is located behind and right of the left of two trees at the base of the Tick Rock slab.

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