Givler's Crack is the prominent 250 foot hand crack on the front of Givler's Dome, surrounded by an obvious white wear streak.  The Kramar guidebook calls it "one of the most popular routes" in the area.

It's an okay route, and a decent lead for a 5.7 leader, but it's a long way up there and the good climbing on this one is fairly short.  I personally don't think it's worth the approach.  There are a handful of other routes in the area, but if you're coming up to lead Givler's, you probably won't be leading them.

P1.  Begin in an alcove near a tree.  Some tricky moves off the ground lead to an obvious crack heading up and left.  Belay on top of the horizontal flake. ~40 feet, 5.7+.

P2.  Head straight up the hand crack above you.  The initial climbing is fun and interesting 5.7 with good gear, but after 50 feet or so, the angle of the dome begins to fall off and the climbing gets easier and easier and less and less interesting.

To descend, walk off the back of the dome to the left.

Givler's Crack

Mastodon Roof

Never-Never Crack

Just For The Bolt Of It

Bo Derek

This short climb has fun moves on great rock.  The crux is at the bottom while moving up the face.  Link up with the crack formed by a large flake.

This is a stellar climb! It protects well, is strenuous and intimidating but so worth it!

Obvious large roof, traverse towards the base of the crack and get into the roof and take the crack to the lip, pull the strenuous lip and have a short face climb to the anchor., or take the 10d wide direct start which lacks gear.

It is possible that this route has only seen 2 redpoint ascents in the last 30 years.  To my knowledge, Todd worked on this route for a week or two before completing the FFA.  And, I've been told that he graded it merely 12d because at the time, some of his other routes had been downgraded.  This route is likely 13a which would make this Washington State's first in the 5.13 grade.  Never Never is much better led than Top roped.  It is simply too steep.  Love that this climb starts with two side ways fist jams.  Classic.

My only first ascent.  After hand drilling the bolts in granite and realizing how dang long it took, I decided to leave FA's to other climbers.  Yup, I'm lazy.

Actually a relatively fun and quick climb to tick if you're in the neighborhood.  I wouldn't hike the 45 minutes up the trail just for this though.  But plenty of other quality lines around to keep you busy for a day.

Fun edgey slab climbing with some 10a moves near the ground being the crux.

Apparently this route is popular as I could see the wear streak from the road last time I visited.

This climb begins in a shallow dish on the far right side of Givler's Dome.

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Routes in Givler's Dome