Short but fun mix of face and crack. Fingers down low with good hands near the top.

Mr. Hugh G.Rection

Limp At Last

The Druid

Fringe Dweller

The Gag

Auto Cream AKA Sunwheel

The Vigilante

The Druid is the first route reached while following the approach that diverges off the Moses Springs Trail at the Northwest corner of the Monolith. It is a very beautiful, very overhanging lichen-covered face, and is almost always in the shade.

The  route climbs midway up the face off of a boulder at the bottom, then jogs sharply left towards the arete on a somewhat crumbly rail. The crux is the sequence pulling out from the under the face and onto the slabby East face of the Druid boulder. Find the good spot on the arete with your left hand, then try to cross through to pull onto the slab. Try not to snag your knot! Be careful with the rail, as it is slowly deteriorating. The final slab is pretty runout, but isn't very difficult.

Great moves!

Fringe Dweller is the second route(just past the Druid) reached while following the approach that diverges off the Moses Springs Trail at the Northwest corner of the Monolith. It is a very beautiful, very overhanging lichen-covered face, and is almost always in the shade.  Good climb.

This is the blank-looking face in between the two cracks, "The Gag" and "Mr. Hugh G. Rection". The crux is a very long reach to a bad edge going to the second bolt. The climbing is sustained, and stiff for the grade, but the rock quality is great and the moves are pretty fun.

This is the route that climbs the blank-looking face off the huge boulder up to the right of Auto Cream. Scramble up the boulder to reach the base of the route, and clip the first bolt on your tiptoes. Some long, rad, and improbable 5.11 moves lead to the crux: a really hard cross-through off of a bad edge and not-so-great feet. Perfect stone, and sustained, hard moves. The only problem is, it's too short! A big boulder problem with bolts.

Watch out for the huge sea of poison oak on the North side of the starting boulder...it's eaten my rope a couple of times.

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Routes in The Back Door