Encounter .10 climbing on the face after clipping the third bolt.  A small ledge above that offers a breather before the crux.  Lay back up a crack that peters out to leave you with a long reach into a deep pocket.  Climb to another ledge then up the pocketed headwall at the top.  A lot of climbing and a great route.

Tall Boy

Strawberry Fizz

Root Beer Float

Hot Fudge

Chocolate Malt

Cherry On Top

4 Hits With a Twist

Orange Whip

Highway Patrol

Climb up on the shelf and scramble up to the first clip.  Climb up the right facing flake to a large shelf.  Follow the bolts left of the crack system and trend left at the top.  A great easy route.

Climb to the top of the stepped flake system to reach the first bolt.  Crimp your way up the tiny pockets and edges.  Very engaging

This route can be climbed a variety of different ways at different grades which probably adds to its appeal.  If you stay right of the bolts and pull your way up the giant huecos its around 5.9.  Using the arete for your left hand and huecos for the right is around 5.10/+.  Staying on the arete only is the hardest and most contrived feeling at about 5.11a  Anyway you choose, this little gem always seems to draws smiles, even when you startle a pigeon out of one of the huecos.

Go up the giant plates climbing across the best rock and clipping three bolts to reach the ledge and a scoop.  Work up into the scoop on small edges, side pulls and a pocket or two.  Solve this short crux bit and you are home free.

In an effort to straighten out Root Beer Float I added a new sport anchor to avoid the leftward traverse at the end.  We had been top roping Chocolate Malts crux scoop section for years using the RBF anchor, so I decided to add some bolts since there were obvious clipping stances and it all came together nicely.  A good route and a late addition to the Soda Fountain Wall.

Climb up on top of the  large flake like feature and onto the face to find the cruxiest part of the climb.  This climb remains challenging the whole way.  It has a 'hostage' move up high right before the anchors.

Climb the plates up to the left facing shallow dihedral to reach the first bolt.  Climb cool moves up this feature until it disappears.  Launch left ward out onto the face to find a reachy crux and a hidden pocket.

This route originally had two hand drilled bolts to protect the crux and the rest was gear.  Nice work Mr. Cozzens, thanks for modernizing it for the masses

Follow the left facing flake system to the ledge.  A cruxy section using small holds and a pocket get you to the crack feature, where another commiting section gets you onto the slab.  Follow the steeper rock to the anchor.  You can continue on to the anchor on Tall Boy for 100 feet of climbing.

A fun, highly featured route.  It's long and varied with a few little mini cruxes.  Everything from steep huecos to slabby crimps.

There is a crack to the right that takes good gear and joins this route at about the 6th bolt (5.9).

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Routes in Soda Fountain Wall