Blast Furnace is the last climb on Industrial Wall - about 200 feet above the routes near the Waterfall.  Climb up steep incut edges to a few slabbier moves at the top.  This route feels more like a Big Cottonwood route.  Very different in character than the rest of the Industrial Wall routes.

Blast Furnace

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Broken

Union Dues

Hoffa Finger

Assembly Line

Conveyor Belt

Ignominious Demise

Hidden Agenda

Loading Dock

Maid In America

White Collar Redneck

This is the right line next to the waterfall.  Fun and easy.  This shares anchors with Loading Dock.

Start to the left of Ignominious Demise.  Follows a left leaning bolt line that straightens after the third bolt.  Difficult traversing and bouldery sequences abound in the lower portion of the route; heady slab awaits above.

Not a bad climb.  It kind of wonders a bit and is a little dirty at the bottom.   Climb up and pull a bulge, traverse left and pass the overhang on the left, head back right and pass 2 more bolts with homemade hangers to find chains at the top of an open book feature.   Looks like some bolts may have been added recently to complete an older line.

Without question the best route on the wall.  This route has so many different techniques packed into it's one pitch that it amazes me, and it is consistently 5.10 almost the entire length.  Start with a mantle, followed by a slab move or two, up to an undercling.  Traverse left on this undercling, transtition into a layback, and work the layback for a few moves.  Mount the roof with a throw, make some steep face moves to another undercling.  Traverse right delicately with reaches and underclings all the while slabbing it out with your feet.  Mount another roof and finish with an exciting and exposed slab move to die for.  WOW!

Really quite entertaining, and perfect for the hot summer days when this is in the shade for a good portion of the day.  Moderate difficulty mixed with decent exposure and odd moves make for a worthwhile outing.  The route is about dead-center on Industrial Wall, and is the up-canyon route of the two on either side of the roofs and blocks.  The start is directly below the first roof on the granite blocks.  Move up into the broken corner that makes up the climb.  Ascend the crack and face to the first roof.  Moving out right of this roof is one of the more entertaining moves on the climb.  Continue up through the next block and roof to the exit move out over a spike of granite.  Rap the route.

The 2nd climb that you come to (they share anchors).  An introduction to Industrial Wall, smears and some edges, up to a roof and over.  Finish up on a small arete.

Just left of Hoffa Finger, this route slabs out a beginning and works through corners and roofs.  The best part of this climb is the roof with a hand jam move to pull it.  Very fun route.

Hidden Agenda is the 4th bolted line.  It starts with an easy 1st clip and glassy granite until the roof.  Above the roof, another one of these angling traverses.  Enjoyable for the leader and the second.

Past most of the climbs, are 2 bolted routes next to a "waterfall".  This is the left-most line.  It only climbs well in low runoff.  Avoid spring, early summer, and windy south winds, as this will coat the cliff.  A tricky start up over 2 mini-roofs.  This is followed by easier but not by much face climbing, angling right at the end.

The first route you come to.  Thin smears up the first bolt, easier to #2, then the fun begins as you move right to join up with Assembly Line.  Once there you climb up an easy roof and then finish easy.

This climb is the 3rd bolted line at Industrial Wall.  It starts easier than the 10's on either side, but the roof creates a problem.  Once solved the upper face is good and consistent.

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Routes in Industrial Wall