This route is the gem of the buttress. The only drawback is the first 15 feet has some crap rock. After that, you get some great rock quality and a full assortment of sizes/moves. After you surmount the brief choss, head up a stair step of tight hands to hands. Move on to a ledge and head up fingers to a #0.75 crack below a small roof. Some difficult jamming gets up to a fist slot that has a small crack in the back. Make a few moves, and gain the anchor.

Chocolate Variety Show

Crescent

Calcite Finger Crack

The Warm Up

Arching Roof

Tips Corner

Crescent is a bit dirty lower down. An old piton protects the start to where you can mantle up on an obvious ledge. From here, it is big fingers slowly growing in size. Gain a rest and layback the wide section to a hand jam. A few awkward moves gets you to the belay.

Though this is in close proximity to

The Warm Up

and shares the last 15', it is well worth doing. It has great movement and involves jamming up sharp rock. As the crack gets smaller, shallow huecos appear where you need them. When the crack peters out, traverse slightly right to finish on the neighboring line.

Take off up the corner through some tight hands. The crack slowly widens to below the obvious roof. The presence of huecos on the left wall eases your passage as you lay back past the roof. From here, climb big hands to fists. A few awkward moves gets you to the anchors that seem to be too high and too far left but helps with pulling the rope. Be careful of the sharp calcite that lines the crack!

This is a great varied route that starts off with some face climbing to gain a ledge and getting established in the crack on the face. From here, plug and chug up great jams as the crack slowly starts to widen and lean right. Head over the bulge on big hands to some fists as the crack arcs back left to the anchors.

Tips Corner is a bit dirty but a good thin corner that takes gear. A rest roughly halfway up takes out some of the bite. Start the same as

Arching Roof

. Once on the ledge, head up the corner.

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Routes in Terra Tower Crag