Fun, short climb with a few powerful moves. Closest thing to a warm-up the Cave has to offer.

Predator

Apex Predator

Nightmare

Flyin' lion

The Threat

Interesting and thoughtful climbing down low leads to some a powerful crux and big moves up high on the cleaner face. Definitely worth doing for the 5.12 climber looking to break out of the funky trad mold of a typical Seneca day.

Climb predator 12a to a good rest at the anchor, then continue out the roof past 4 bolts climbing through the apex.

Old McCray project. Get inverted and get your kneebar on. This route is seriously fun, if a bit loose (in particular, there is one large block in the middle of the route). Aside from the midway block, the route seems to be cleaning up well.

The moves are more tricky than they are hard: two cryptic cruxes towards the end of the route. I think it feels about 13a, but maybe it should be given 10+ since it is at Seneca. You'll swear you are at Rifle.

This route climbs the project formerly known as the nightmare project. It was bolted by Brian McCray and Tom Cecil in the late 80's. This giant intimidating cave route fell into obscurity after the early 90's. The 2 people known to have tried it before Mike Farnsworth were Stephan Glowacz and Jordi Salas. Stephan apparently backed off due to a loose block(i couldn't find it) and Jordi worked on it for a season. Start in the back of the cave and climb "nightmare 13a" for 7 bolts to an almost no hands rest. Then continue out the roof past 4 more bolts through a difficult crux turning the lip ~ v9. After the lip stay light on your feet to reach the 2 bolt anchor.

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