One of the longest routes at Palomas, Vertical Nothing is the last "Entrance Area" route before the Slab Wall. 

  Climb through the choss to a vertical seam/dihedral feature.  There's a small dead tree stump in this feature.  The intense, balancey crux hits in the first four bolts. followed shortly by a no hands stance on the obvious slab.  Continue left-ish along the slab to a pumpy 5.11- finish.

Vertical Nothing

Entrance Exam

Drop in the Ocean

Nature of the Beast

Sidewinder

A solid route throughout.  The third move after going to the right is tricky, but the crux doesn't come until around the fifth bolt, close to the top.

Boulder up through the choss band to the high first bolt.  Optional #2 camalot here to protect the moves to the first bolt.  Jam up the crack as it widens and make the crux moves into the scoop.  Snag a rest here and continue up through fun moves past the next two bolts.  Hit a cool horizontal crack and traverse left clipping the seventh bolt.  From here clip the eighth bolt and decide on a finish; escape left on easy 5.10 moves to the anchors atop Vertical Nothing, or continue straight up to the original anchors at 12+.

A very nice route with a tricky start. Begin to the right of a prominent crack going up the wall (Drop in the Ocean). My impression was that the crux was at the bottom though another thought it was at the top. Clip the first and second bolt, and head through a tricky sequence through the bottom moves. Endure through the next few moves and take a few good rests before jamming a crack (or finding something to crimp, if your name is Mike) at the top and hitting some nice jugs above. Could probably protect the top moves with a yellow Camalot if so inclined but not really necessary as a fall from there would be through air.

Begin just to the left of Entrance exam, and about 15 feet to the right of Nature of the Beast. Move straight up, clipping two bolts through the scoop, then head up through the crack (some jam, others crimp). Pass just right of the large cave (mmmmm guano). Reach long and left to clip the 6th bolt (crux#1), and endure a second crux at the 8th bolt. Endure, this route is a fine pump fest!  

The first area of climbing you see as you walk up the trail to the climbing area. This is at the far right end of Palmos Peak Climbing area. This area is home to some of the best, and longest routes at Palomas. No slab technique involved, there are actually holds here!

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Routes in (01) The Entrance