Climb up the face to the right of a crack system with a substantial amount of poison ivy growing out of it.  We clipped the ivy back but it will certainly regrow.  Move up to the horizontal break in the rock with many loose stacked blocks, be careful here and have you belayer out of harms way of rock fall.  Continue up the face very near the left edge of the upper portion of the rock to the top.   

Amidst the Ivy

Big Bad Wolf

On the Edge

On the End

Begin just to the right side of a low roof. Then move slightly left toward a short vertical crack. Once on top the crack step left and move up to the left end of a small prominent roof.  Follow the thin edge above the roof up and right then straight up the face when it ends.  Once at the Big Big Roof diagonal left through the notch and up to the top. 

Head up the prominent vertical crack.  Stay on the left edge of the large blocks.  Work your way up the face to the large ledge.  Move under the roof to the right and follow the crack up and back left squeezing through the overhands to the top.  Divya's alternate Ending is to step up on the large ledge on the left and between two roofs, make a tricky move up between them, and finish it off to the top in the notch.

Climb up the low angle blocky face to the large 4' roof.  step left under the roof and move up the open book then diagonal right to the top.John's 5.10 Variation pulls the big roof at it's center.

Ed Bollack found this small but rather tall outcrop with a massive Big Big Roof, might even be the tallest rock outcrop in the area standing at 50 feet.  However lots of loose blocks around on the face and some seriously scary rocks precariously hanging from the roof.  Also lots of poison ivy around the base.  This place isn't for everyone with it's hazards but if you need a new adventure and have done most of the outcrops in Thurmont Watershed and surrounding area this might be for you just keep your belayer out of the way from falling rocks.  We had fun climbing and establishing some of the routes here. There are shorter rocks / boulders out to the left of the main outcrop.

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Routes in Big Big Roof