The only sport route on the East Walls. Climb the slab past two bolts and a few reachy moves to a small overlap, pull over the overlap and continue past two more bolts to a bolt anchor. And don’t forget to enjoy all the pistol squats.

5.12 Comes to Wintergreen

Dark Side Direct

Hell

Guide's Route

Public Enemy

Roughly 15 feet downhill (south) of 5.12 Comes to Wintergreen is a fist to hand sized crack. It snakes to the left and up, reaching a good stance after about 10 feet. Follow the ever thinning crack to crimps and sidepulls which will bring you under the a V shaped notch in the roof. Pull the roof and layback/chimney to reach the slab up above, and a medium sized tree which can be used as an anchor. 

  You can set up a TR on this route if you scramble up the gully between the Guide's Route and 5.12 Comes to Wintergreen.

Work your way up several large boulders until you hit the off-width roof, then the fun begins! Stem and thrutch your way through the roof and over the lip to the base of the upper slab. Regain your senses, clip the single bolt, and continue up the rippled face to the anchors.

Head up to a big left leaning flake, and stay right of the trees. You'll end up going past a series of horizontal cracks, until you reach two bolts on a section of rippled slab. Find nubbins to work through the thin slab (crux,) then head up left to a large tree with some static line and rap rings.

At base of the East Wall starting below the small dihedral with a single bolt above it on the face, climb the discontinuous cracks up the slab to the dihedral. Pull some strenuous and reachy moves in the dihedral to clip the bolt. Once you’ve got the bolt you can relax a little bit but the crux isn’t finished with you yet. Continue following the thin crack above the bolt up to the ledge. From the ledge move up and onto the slab following another obvious crack on your right. Take this crack until it ends, on the slab below the anchor. Run it out and slab climb your way to the anchor. 

This is the large chunk of rock due east of the Beginner Slab. If you're climbing on the slab, it will be directly behind you. On the east side of this rock is a good series of cracks, some long slab routes, and one of Wintergreen's only 5.12 sport climbs (5.12 comes to Wintergreen.)

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Routes in East Walls