A tricky start over a bulge leads to a fun and powerful roof encounter, followed by sequential dynamic climbing that is very continuous with no good rest stances. Stick clip recommended.

White Trash

Long Legged Girls and Fun

Jump Start

Featured Fantasy

Forearm Foreplay

Closet Cowboy

Big Jake

Liberty Crack

Black's Crack

Couch Surfing

Bodies in Motion

The missing bolt mentioned in the old Robb guide has been replaced, and the route has been further cleaned and is now a safe lead. A difficult start under a roof featuring dynamic campus moves leads to gradually easier climbing above. Stick clip recommended.

Pumpy quartzite climbing on large sloping holds, similar to Forearm Foreplay but with some better stances and holds.

Classic pumpy quartzite. Continuous climbing on mostly large, although smooth, sloping holds.

Average quartzite crack with easy gear placement.

The obvious line up this section of the Nature Center Wall, Big Jake climbs the beautiful, overhanging, leftward-angling offset. This climb is not very long - the business being only about 30 feet - but it is consistently powerful and dynamic with one obvious crux. This thing isn't over until it's over, though!  The climbing is as pumpy and sporty as anything I've been on, of similar difficulty, in the Ogden area.

Some of the bolts are fairly reachy so you may want to make sure this is pre-hung.  I doubled up draws on the third bolt. Also the anchor situation is screwy, given that there isn't really an anchor yet.  Basically just clip and lower off the last bolt before the long, low angle slab that leads up to a bolt right below the top.  Don't get duped into going up there and hoping there are anchors (there aren't).

The small roof crack on the cover of, and listed as an oddball project in, the Dave Robb guide. It's kind of a weaker, Ogden quartzite version of the Coffin Roof in Little Cottonwood Canyon. Basically, it's a boulder problem 60 feet off of the deck.

This is located on what Robb calls the SR-71 part of the Nature Center Wall.  The roof is not that obvious until you're up close, or just know where to look. But once you are standing at the base of the descent gully which splits the SR-71 wall (and the only really gully to split the whole nature center wall) you can gaze the roof above you on the right wall of the gully.

Pitch 1: Really just a scramble approach. I don't think a rope or climbing shoes are required to get up to the base of the 10 foot dihedral that guards passage to the roof.  ~40 feet. Build a belay with some larger hand sized cams.

Pitch 2: Begin up the 5.9ish (it's been a few years since I climbed it) dihedral.  There will be a small awkward perch at the base of the roof atop this.  Here you can stuff in a few finger sized cams and try (strenuously) to stretch out and gander at the moves.  Step 2 of this: Pull hard some finger locks and edges. After surmounting the roof and making a few easy moves to the top of the wall. Down climb and down aid - No anchor - back to the belay atop pitch 1.

Climbs the bolted line just left of Big Jake. AKA  Puking Pumpkins, crux is sticking the dyno between the 4th and 5th bolts.

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Routes in Nature Center Wall