Loose, and dirty, this uninspiring line is currently the easiest route in the cave.  However, due to the poor nature of the climbing and rock, it doesn't serve as a very good warmup.

Carefully move past 45 feet of suspect blocky rock until you can pull onto a ledge at 3/4 height.  Figure out a way to pull onto the crux headwall and negotiate sidepulls, flakes and more fragile rock to the top.

Belayer may want a helmet for this one.

Pot Hunter

Cliffdwellers

Joe's World

Curious George

Skinwalker

Killer Bees

Peregrination

Baby Joe

Joe Blow

86'd

Choss Dwellers

Z-Curve

Black Magic

Over the Transom

The Rainbow

Silver Fox

Low Jam

Joe Dirt

Killer Z

Black Ball

Inner Worlds

Rick Ross

This route begins with a little scramble up some easy stacked boulders to get to the first bolt. You can sit down here for as long as you like and get ready for some great climbing on quality stone. The first three bolts are pretty cruiser with plenty of jugs to procrastinate on. After the third bolt this route really turns it on for the next 5 bolts and culminates with a really fun boulder problem. Collectively we were calling the the 4 move boulder problem V3-ish, which doesn't sound that hard for the redpoint crux of a 5.13a, but there really isn't anywhere to shake on this route. After the upper boulder problem you'll do a big move out left and stand up into an undercling crack feature. Climb this feature for one more bolt and chains.

Fun endurance line on mostly good holds.  Start up "Baby Joe", but instead of clipping the anchors traverse right following the crack system.  Negotiate the first crux where the crack pinches down on slopers and a few crimps.  Get a quick shake and enter the second crux, where the feet disappear and the crack becomes sloping.  Get a decent hold and fight the pump thru the finishing 15 feet with better and better holds.

AKA Penthouse. Begin on Silver Fox, and follow the extension for a few more bolts of roof climbing and rightward traversing. This extension can be reached from the Skinwalker direct/ Skinwalker starts, and if done those ways is called Skin Trade/Big Man on Campus.

Shorter bouldery route on the right side of the cave.

One of the earliest bolted lines in the cave, this route follows a near horizontal line of cracks, tufas, and pockets.

AKA "Visitor Q". A great line that features some really cool tufas as part of one of the cruxes.

This route makes for a good warmup in addition to "Over the Transom"  Pull thru the initial bulge, probably best to use the first bolt or a stickclip if it's your first time  up.  Walk across the chossy ledge and start up on the steep face on mostly jugs past several fixed draws.  At the last bolt encounter the crux with sloping sidepulls and fingerlocks up the crack feature.

This route starts on the first two bolts of Skinwalker with a few overhanging moves to a ledge. and then traverses/walks the ledge right toward the top of a small pillar/tip type feature. Complete no hands rest. Then traverse right through the horizontal crack-ish type feature (this traverses through Baby Joe (12a)). Right after crossing through Baby Joe, you will find the crux as you head out the horizontal roof toward the lip of the cave past a handful of more clips.

Climb most of Cliffdweller until you reach the sloper rest before the last crux. Then traverse right and up, clipping 2 bolts before joining and finishing on Peregrination.

Tiptoe through several bolts of moderate choss.  Roll out right onto an insecure sloper.  Build feet and fire up on jugs in still poor but much less fragile feeling rock to anchors.

Gets progressively more difficult until the crux right before the anchor.

This unique line is almost entirely leftwards traversing.  start with an easy climb into the overhanging corner system.  Traverse left past many bolts thru a variety of slopers, underclings, jams, and crimps.  The crux presents itself in getting to and clipping the anchors.  Much harder than it appears from the ground.

An extension of this "White Static" 13b continues past the anchors for a few more bolts with a tricky boulder problem to anchors shared with "Z Curve".

The warm up for the cave.  Start on mellow climbing on vertical rock for a few bolts, before encountering big moves on worse than they look holds.  Traverse rightwards through slopers and underclings, climbing straight up at the end to the first anchor.

At the start climb straight up, do not take the first set of bolts that breaks right.  This is "Grey Fox 12c".  If you continue climbing straight rightwards it is "Low Jam 13a".

A unique journey across the back of the cave. Begin on 'Killer Bees', continue on reversing 'Low Jam', then downclimb 'Over the Transom' and step down onto the ground.

Another variation is "Black Rainbow" 14a which just starts on black ball instead.

Shares the start with "Over the Transom 11d/12a", but after the 1st bolt break rightwards through steep climbing, with some powerful moves on mostly good holds. Persevere through the steepness to a difficult clip at the anchors, some kneebar trickery may help with the anchor clip. An extension to this is "Curious Jorge" 13c.

This is steep chossy cave climbing with a somewhat moderate grade at it's best.  While the line is incredibly steep, for most of it you are traversing and not actually climbing upside down.  Only the final bit involves true steep climbing.

Climb the majority of the warmup "Over the Transom" but instead of climbing up to the anchors continue traversing right and downwards in a few spots.  There is a great jug rest to recover on before climbing through the final steep section with an awesome and gymnastic crux.

This adds a fun boulder problem after finishing "Baby Joe".  From the anchors of "Baby Joe" clip the long sling and traverse left, get a good rest and tackle the physical boulder problem past two more bolts to the anchors.

Grade is somewhere between hard 12d and soft 13a.

Similar to the Rainbow, start on Killer Bees but finish on Z-curve instead of heading down Transom. Good endurance climbing, with a punchy finish. A variation called "Black Ball-Z" 5.14b starts on Black Ball instead.

Starts off following the obvious rail to a couple of big moves into the bouldery crux/transition into killer bees (V9?) finish up on the last four bolts of killer bees to the anchor.

Start this big traversing journey with the same first couple bolts as 'Skinwalker' (right var). Split right, and climb up easy terrain along the left side of the big pillar. Enjoy the nice no hands rest at the top before traversing further right across 'Baby Joe', and up the harder dihedral crux (located only a couple feet to the right). Once established above, trend right and across the roof of the cave on the obvious rail system.

If you begin on 'Baby Joe' but execute the same dihedral crux and finish traverse, this is called 'Baby World' and is also 13c.

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