A very fun route that looks much more intimidating than it is. A little run out at the beginning. The crux is at the very top where you pull up through a short, slightly overhung, offwidth.

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Starts just to the right of the Peaches dihedral, below a very obvious roof. Pro-up, crank through the roof and head straight up to join Peaches.

This route requires a bit of a lot of different technique. The bottom section is a fairly easy crack, but requires a bit of thinking for gear placement. The middle bulge (first crux) looks a bit intimidating, but the crimps are all there. After a little offwidth section, the top section (second crux) is pure face; very fun and protected by two bolts. This last section is almost like a reverse "Lotta Balls", instead of balls, there are small dimples that you don't think will quite hold you, but do.

Delicate frictioning will get you past a bolt and a fixed pin. A #2 or #3 camalot will provide dubious protection in the alcove for the final moves to the top.

One of the classic friction routes in Red Rocks. Right up there with Smears for Fears and Rojo. Bring a couple of small cams to protect the opening moves to the first bolt. If you're under 5'10" clipping the first bolt will be hard and scary. Traverse left a bit then make hard moves to the slopy ledge. Rest the feet here you're going to need it. The next section traverses back right a bit and up on very thin slab. A couple of very shallow solution pockets will hopefully get you past the crux without taking the long whip.

 Holds have broken off making the grade a bit harder than 5.11

The rock in the alcove is a bit soft, but the rest is good and easy to protect.  Joins "Stemming Corner" at the first tree.

This route goes up the face and traverses right under a nose shaped roof into the slot on the right side. It is about 15 feet left of Sumo Greatness and about forty feet right of the petroglyph interpretive sign at the base of Children's Crag. Pulling the crux is pretty fun. Build a gear anchor at the top and walk off right. The rock quality is a little flaky on this route.

There are several open books on the right side of Children's Crag;  Stemming Corner ascends the middle corner.  The line is drawn incorrectly in Handren's guide, but he directs you to start at green graffiti, which gets you to the right place. 

  Wander your way up into the main open-book system, and stem your way up that to a ledge with a tree (slings) or to the top and walk off.

Take the Petroglyph Wall Trail to the interpretive sign at the base of the crag.   About 30 feet left of the  sign is a large right-facing dihedral that also leans to the right.  This climb is well protected and has good rock quality.Starting just right of the dihedral, work your way up and right to a vertical crack.  Follow the vertical crack until it joins the dihedral. Continue right and up through the chimney at 5.7.  Or escape right earlier for the 5.5 variation.  Or you can take on the 5.9 variation by going left and up an overhanging crack.  Descent options:Rappel 40 meters from a tree with slings at the back of a large ledge.Or traverse right about 100 meters with some exposed second and third class and then descend a gully  down to the wash.  Details:  climb over and right of a large boulder near the rap tree; traverse right over the top of a wide chimney with a big chock stone; continue right, scrambling up a little every now and then; make a few second or third class traversing moves around a bulge over about 120 feet of vertical face (!); continue right to reach a gully and traverse to the far side; descend paths in the gully to the flat wash below. 10 minutes.On our second time on the route, we had one 60 meter rope  One of us did a single strand rap to the base (descent #1).  The other did the "walk off" (descent #2).  We also then watched another party of two do a two-stranded rap with one 70m rope, needing to then down climb the last 5 or 10 meters of the route.

This little gem is about 100' long and has a grand total of 3 bolts. A fall before clipping the second bolt will likely result in injuries. A fall above the 3rd has resulted in a broken nose for one local climber.

This is a very beautiful trad climbing area with a wide variety of colors in the rock and an array of features as well. Dihedrals, cracks, smooth faces are all prominent here. It seems to get little sun especially after noon. Be aware of the rock art, there are numerous petroglyphs and pictographs - don't climb on them. Several routes are now off limits due to the presence of rock art. Descend these single pitch routes by walking off right.

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