To the right of Prickly Pear crack, Look for chalk marks.   This is a fairly sustained climb as the face is slightly overhung. 

  Left jug to a right side-pull crossing up to a small but good crimp, wide right to a jug, left to a decent rounded crimp in the mouth of Nature's Face, right to a decent crimp,  left to a hold then side pull hard in the crack, left into the rectangular hole (can be wet sometimes but it's a great hold) bump right up again to remain as side pull, shoot up to the two finger pocket. 

  Alternately you could work the arete insetad of going through the crux middle section and it would make this a 5.9

Face of Nature's Spirit

Shadowy Entities

Prickly Pear

Think Skeletons

Owl's Lookout

Cross Roads

It's a quick crack climb. 

  Crux is getting up and over a little bulge feature. There are minimal face holds around the bulge initially so you have to hand jam but once you start to pull over the bulge there is an awesome hold on the right. 

  The rock is very sharp and will chew up your knuckles!

Pretty fun though short so a bit anticlimactic. Lots of holds in the angle itself. 

  Crux is pulling over the bulge. The dihedral itself is a 5.6 but the bulge ups the difficulty. 

  Someone else has climbed this as there was chalk on some of the holds, so if you have another name or want credit, please let me know.

Start on Cross Roads and mantle into the nook (awkward move, especially if you're >5'4") then ride the arete by using holds on it and hand jams in the crack.

Start on Cross Roads and once you're above the big flake bump out to the horizontal cracks which are very rounded crimps though decent to use. 

  Reach the hole the size of an extremely large fist or a very small owl and side pull while figuring out feet or smearing on the semi-choss.  

  Crimps above the hole are decent but it's a bit covered in lichen as of this posting (6/5/2014)

Stand on the rock below the big flake and commit (if you're <5'6" or have a negative ape index) to the huge juggy slope; alternately, for those of shorter stature, you could place a nut and then pull on it. From there it's basically a vertical traverse on top of the big flake. Get a high foot or heel and mantle on top of the flake (into the little nook) then, as Robert Frost once did, make a choice (left to Think Skeletons or right to the Owl's Lookout): 

  Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,	   And sorry I could not travel both	   And be one traveler, long I stood	   And looked down one as far as I could	   To where it bent in the undergrowth;	         

  Then took the other, as just as fair,	   And having perhaps the better claim,	   Because it was grassy and wanted wear;	   Though as for that the passing there	   Had worn them really about the same,	         

  And both that morning equally lay	   In leaves no step had trodden black.	   Oh, I kept the first for another day!	   Yet knowing how way leads on to way,	   I doubted if I should ever come back.	         

  I shall be telling this with a sigh	   Somewhere ages and ages hence:	   Two roads diverged in a wood, and I	   I took the one less traveled by,	   And that has made all the difference.

Small chossy cliff; it's sandy rock that crumbles and is intermixed with some type of granite. The climbable area is maybe 12 yards or 36 feet across.     Not a day trip but there are a few climbs if you live in the area. 

  There's a river that runs below the cliff and there are lots of mosquitoes -- bring insect repellant if you don't like getting your blood drank. 

  The local government is somewhat conservative so please don't cause a ruckus, lest we all get banned.

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Routes in Twin Brooks Park