Climb the thin hands crack to a ledge. Clip an old bolt that should be replaced and pull through the final moves. Belay at a tree

Unknown 5.9 Crack

Scenic Byway

Super Creeps

Mermaid Man

Uncontrollable Urge

Poo Poutine

Borderline Hype

See No Evil

Scary Monsters

Two pitches of great climbing with conflicting personalities, from one another. (BPD)Pitch one, serves up some short but sweet, overhanging fingerlocks for a crux. When Pitch two, brings on the bouldery type/ swing your hips around and stem in the bottomless dihedral kind of business.

Start in in the crack below the towering arete. Clip a bolt as a directional and continue up the corner. A few technical sequences but mostly a scramble. Would be a good first lead! Two bolt anchor at the top.

P1. Start in the scary monsters corner. Step right up the handcrack to a turfy ledge. Clip a bolt and follow the crack to its end using many face holds as well (5.8/5.9?). Two bolt belay below a traversing ramp. P2. It is possible to break this pitch up if desired. Climb up and right into the low angle dihedral until you reach a 90 degrees stemming corner. Move through to a large ledge. Resist the urge to bail left and continue up the final headwall crack to the summit. Gear (.5-2) or tree belay. Rappel another route or walkoff the right side (5.9ish)

Not the most striking route here but a decent moderate with cool jugs. Start up cracks and blocks to a blueberry ledge, then follow a flake system up passing four bolts.

Climb the unknown 5.9 crack until about 3/4 of the way up. Protect and traverse right using good edges to the thin seam. Continue up the finger crack/seam to a two bolt anchor. (Maybe 9+ish but calling it 10a until theres another opinion)

Climb the Arete with 3 bolts and 2 Gear Placements. Another good early lead.

Climb the crack to a ledge where the crack breaks. Clip a bolt and make challenging face moves (crux) before reconnecting with the splitter crack. The top is gaurded by a short off width, but fear not, for there are jugs. 2 bolt anchor at top

 Additional notes- 1. If you like your rope, I'd rap the route rather than lowering off 2. I took two days to clean this route, but it had very thick lichen that wouldn't peel off easily with a wire brush. It will clean best with foot traffic 

P1. Climb the corner crack until a steep bulge. Move through the crux and take the double cracks to the top. Belay at two bolt anchor (5.9). P2. Climb into the corner stemming and laybacking below the roof. Struggle (or not) through the roof to the beautiful handcrack above (5.10).

This granite cliff sits high above Natanis Pond in the Chain of Ponds Public Reserved Lands. Though there are signs of past climbing, and a few "mystery routes" with old hardware (which look striking!), the cliff appeared to have been largely undeveloped prior to this spring.The cliff is about 200' at it's highest point and offers a large concentration of crack climbing, with the potential for more mixed/face lines in the future. At the time of writing this, there are several new routes and many more to come. Given it's beautiful setting, quality climbing, and free camping on public land, I feel this area has the potential to become a destination in the future for climbers who enjoy going off the beaten path.

 The routes listed have all seen an extensive cleaning effort, but may still need some traffic before they are truly broken in. If anyone reading this has information on the history of this area, please message me!

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Routes in Natanis Perch