Destined to become the route where Vermonters get their first sport lead. 

 Follow the bolt line up the clean slab to the left of Little Wolf. The slab is featured enough to make the climbing enjoyable and provide reasonable holds and stances for clipping. The climbing eases toward the top and finishes and a comfortable ledge with a ring-bolt anchor. 

 Top Rope access is possible for Sir Didymus and Little Wolf by scrambling up the gully to the left of the slabs. Be aware that walking out to the ledge involves some exposure and high consequences.

Sir Didymus

Welcome to Bolton

Inconceivable!

Jamathon

Little Wolf

The Country Doctor's Ramble

Tipathon

Fist Fulla Schist

The Awesomest

Flux Capacitor

Overall fun climbing with and adventurous feel and a cool stemming corner at the start. Top out the corner and transition to a low angled featured slab. Transition back left and pull through a small roof behind a tree past two old buttonhead bolts (probably best to opt for the gear placements!). Alternatively, you can climb in from the slab and skip the roof all together, but it has a move or two worth doing. Climb the vertical finish above the tree to a ring-bolt anchor.

Start in a crack up a bouldery start to a stance in a right-facing corner. Work up the easy corner to a newly installed anchor.

Follow the arch at the start of the climb for several moves before leaving the positive holds for an inconceivable crux. Be careful loose rock when the climbing eases at the near the top just before the ring-bolt anchors.

Begin in the short splitter hand crack to a stance where the terrain eases off. Romp up the easy slab to a new two-bolt anchor.

Follow a shallow right-facing corner up the slab that begins between a couple of trees at the base. When the crack ends scramble around a bulge left of the large tree ledge to regain another right-facing corner of similar character. Continue upward to a comfortable ledge with a ring bolt anchor.

 Gear – Standard Rack

 Mischa Tourin, who has been active in revival of the Bolton Dome, brought this route back to life in August of 2019. The ACB ascent included his father, Peter Tourin, who was a local Bolton climber in the past and at 74 years old had not climbed for decades, and his wife, Claire Tourin, at 20 weeks pregnant with TBD Tourin aka Little Wolf.  

 Top Rope access is possible by scrambling up the gully to the left of the slabs. Be aware that walking out to the ledge involves some exposure. I am considering a fixed line from the top of the gully if this route becomes a popular TR route.

For being 5.3, this is as fun as it gets. A rambling adventure up an easy slab.

 Start on the far left side of the cliff below the easy slabs. Wander up, clipping occasional bolts, to a mid-anchor station halfway up. The same goes for pitch two.

 Rappel or hike down.

A direct start to Welcome to Bolton, being a few feet right of the original start and eventually work left into the corner.

Climb the start of Welcome to Bolton. Instead of finishing up the 5.5 ramp step left onto the face and clip the first glue-in. From there climb straight up on rails until you hit the next glue-in. After the glue climb the arete to the anchor of jamathon. The route was free'd on gear but it's probably pg-13.

Once an old aid practice route called "Hammer Fun," it has since been bolted and is an excellent free route.Start up an easier start to a crack system. From a shake, work through a very fun powerful crux up a flake system to another slight rest. Hold it together through the end, an easier few moves gains the pigtail anchor.

The west-facing end of the cliff, shrouded in trees, making it a great destination to get out of the sun and on summer mornings.

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