Fallen follows what appears to be an easy crack to a short head wall and is the third route from the left, just left of Ascendancy. Climbing Fallen is trickier than the low angle might suggest.

Fallen

Ascendancy

The Ramp

Rise Above This

Giuoco Piano

Face-Off

RAT runs left of the long slab in the middle of the crag. It begins on very easy terrain and grows continuously more interesting as you approach the anchor. RAT also gets rather sequence dependent and cruxy as you get closer to the anchors. The climbing is similar to J-Tree climbing near the end, so use your feet and pull gently.

The best route at the crag, Ascendancy fires up a nice face and dihedral system at 5.11 climbing to a difficult arete sequence. A no hands rest comes just before the left-arching finale and after standing on top of the arete. Cruxy work comes in getting established on the arete and then moving up it via a powerful pinch. I was spit off the arete on a red point burn, where upon Mark clinched the FFA with a nice solution to getting established on the arete and then powering straight up it. Despite bolting and cleaning the line, I thought it was hard to read on the sharp end. Without giving any beta away, the thing that is hard to suss out is preventing the barn-door as you move onto and up the arete.

Follow the bolts up a low angle ramp in the middle of the crag. The Ramp is the second route from the left. A thin move in the middle could push the grade a wee bit. Rock is fine granite and very clean.

GP is a short face starting just below the large roof at the west end of the crag. It is a good little route, worth a warm-up run. Dance up a clean face making a couple of nice moves. The idea was to stay out of the vegetated slot on the left.

Face-Off climbs a steep face just off the arete on the left side of the crag. While steep and tricky at first, some inobvious finger slots bring the difficulty down significantly. Finishes on a short slab.

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Routes in Inaugural Crag