This route is just to the right of Thigh Slapper and starts with an awkward match with hands on the lip. You lean towards the left, and use low to high foot holds. The crux is 3 or 4 moves up were you have to make this huge reach up and to the right. After that, it's smooth sailing and just 1 or 2 more moves to the top. Depending on your wingspan this might be closer to V5-.

Giants Reach

Corona Corner

Big Eagle Feather

The Best Crack in Bozeman

Golden Acres

The Gardner

Slapstick Traverse

Purple Pinky Eater

Ugly Step Sister

My favorite crack in Montana. Beautiful left facing corner with the best rock you will find anywhere on the rims. Excellent protection,the crux is simply enduring to the chains. Very reminiscent of Indian Creek climbing. Crack starts wide and narrows down at the steep finish. Must be accessed from the top, if you wander more than 10' from the bottom of the crack you will be trespassing on private property.

Amazing splitter crack! (topped by 15' of junk)  Start by pulling a roof on thin hands, cruise up the easier thin hands section on good poddy feet, place some good cams, take a deep breath, and blast through a right leaning section of rattly fingers with imaginary footholds. Then try not to fall before clipping a draw into one of the pieces of mank that passes for a mid anchor (or better yet hang a second rope down from the excellent anchors at the top of the cliff). An amazing climb with great protection. I highly recommend going for the onsight. In the likely event you fall, it will be on good gear with a clean fall zone. The climb has a category 4 walk up/down 30' to climbers left.

This is a very thin, slightly offset steep crack on good rock with poor feet.  It is an open project...have at it! The grade is a guess.

Great crack! the only thing keeping it from classic status is the chossy top. An easier Ringlock crack in a left facing corner. The crux is pulling over the waves. A great lead with excellent rock until the top, you might consider lowering off your last piece and cleaning gear on rap. If you really want to top out, consider hanging a sling down from the excellent top anchors to protect the choss on top.

Great trad lead! A smaller, easier, mirror image of Corona Corner. Offwidth to tight hands in a right facing corner. No particular crux, just sustained crack jamming. Excellent protection, very good rock. The Ripples on the face right of the crack can be top roped from the anchors and await a free ascent, I'm guessing 11/12ish. Get after it!

Starts low on the left and ends two feet around the right and up

Great climb marred by poor top out. Start in a shallow left facing corner, pull a mini-roof, then move up the splitter to easier ground. The top goes free, but the rock is bad, and the gear is worse. Still; if purple camalots (rattly fingers) are your thing (maybe you should see someone about this?) you must climb this route. More accurately the Purple Index Finger Eater- but that doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.

This mediocre crack had the misfortune to be created a mere 50' to the west of the greatness of Corona Corner. Actually it's a decent crack with good movement ending in a chossy finish. It probably could be lead (PG) but I haven't bothered. Most will probably climb this as a warm up, you don't want to hit Corona Corner cold.

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Routes in Phipps Park