Steep sport-bolted knob climbing in a cool setting. First pitch 80' rap (but longer than half a 60m rope if you were to lower off the first pitch - due to a long traverse), second pitch 90'.

Pitch Black

Who's the Bosch

Pebble Beach

In the Dark

Dark Helmet

Spaceballs

Voice of the Crags

Batteries Not Included

Death Star Rides Again

Dark Side of the Force

Megacrystic

The Imperial March

A fun two pitch route with a plethora of bolts at the hard bit.  A good route to get ready for Crying Time Again on Lembert.

Easy 5th class face climbing up to a right arching corner with great gear.  Follow this right and up past more flakes and gear to a short bit of face climbing past two great bolts to an uncomfortable bolted belay ~100 feet of easy 5.8.

From the belay, fire up past closely spaced bolts on sustained, steep, small knobs for 50 feet.  Move past this up to the right side of a small roof with a great 0.5-1" cam.  Work left here below the roof then up to a bolt.  Less well protected knobs 5.9 past a last bolt and a bolted belay ~ 80 feet of great 5.10a/b knobs.

More great steep knobs!

Climb 15' up to a small ledge / roof.  Mantle up left with large positive knobs to the first bolt.  Work up and left (crux) to larger knobs past two more bolts.  Easier climbing leads straight up past two more well spaced bolts (5.4R) to a two bolt belay / rappel anchor.

This route wanders up the face just left of right facing corners for two pitches.

The first pitch heads up steep large knobs to a bolt about 25-30 feet up, serious 5.7.  Continue up and right past a second bolt and onward to some small gear.  Traverse left to a third bolt and back right past two closely spaced bolts.  The crux knobs can be mossy and dirty above the 5th bolt.

Either traverse straight left at the 6th bolt to the last bolt of Dark Side of the Force and continue left to that belay (recommended) or mantle up to a gear belay with poor anchors.

Second pitch heads up and left to the top with virtually no protection (1 retro-bolt added by FFA team) on easy 5th class.

Great knobs and nice climbing until the last bolt.  It gets a little dirty above that.

Start on a broad ledge, climb up and over an easy overhang to three bolts and great knobs lead to a small bulge.  Two well spaced bolts above protect easier climbing.  Diagonal up and left to the Who's the Bosch's bolted anchor after the fifth bolt.

Start climbing the 'right' facing dihedral with easy moves and excellent protection (#1-3 Camalot).  Move up over a small lip (first crux) on smaller pro to stand on a huge flat knob.  Continue up the ever thinning crack/seam/corner on thin pro (offset cams helpful) and pass a bolt.  Continue along the arch until it thins out completely and becomes a lieback flake.  Step out left onto a couple of big knobs and clip a second bolt on a short vertical section.  Move up and surmount the lip (second crux) to lower angle terrain.  Pass a third bolt and traverse diagonally right on easy ground to the P1 anchor of Imperial March.

This is an awesome, varied route on clean rock.  While it is well protected by Tuolumne standards, it does require small cams and the ability to place them well.

Great big knobs and steep at the start with good protection.  Pretty fun.

A fine route up the center of the wall. Climb up a ramp to the first bolt, then clip a second bolt just a couple feet away. Work your way up the blunt arete (5.10b) to a third bolt and then climb up easy and runout terrain past one more bolt to an anchor on a ledge. Either rap from here with one 60m rope or continue to the top via runout 5.7 and one bolt.

Even steeper giant knobs!  Too bad the steep bit isn't longer.

Just right of a pair of beautiful trees, look for a fixed pin in a left facing roof/corner thing.  Undercling out right and power past large steep knobs and four bolts.  Lower angle 5.4 runout past two more bolts.

Pretty sustained from the pin to the third bolt with a definite crux moving past the first bolt.

A pleasant face climb with some gear.  Face climb up directly to a horizontal crack 15 feet up (small TCU) and mantle up and left to a bolt, up and left to another bolt then easy climbing (5.4R) with some gear and another bolt leads right to the bolt anchor of Spaceballs.

A nice route up knobs and a little steeper than the routes to the left.  Climb 5.6 to a high first bolt, a small flake above the second bolt can take some gear then three more bolts of fairly sustained knobs leads to a 6th bolt.  Traverse straight left from the 6th bolt to a belay shared with Megacrystic.

Climb up giant knobs aiming just left of a left facing dihedral/roof past 6 bolts, the first is a little bit high, but the crux is further up.

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Routes in Dark Side Dome