This short, challenging route has some fun pocket pulling, balance moves, and interesting dike protrusions. A tricky move to start is followed by easier climbing to a cruxy section at the 3rd bolt where dike protrusions and pockets are used.

Tiny Two Step

Mutt Lange

Canine

Master Chief

Stepping Stone

Jeff's Route

Stem-o-rama

Brown Chicken

Three Dog Night

Begin with cruxy climbing on great gray stone on small hand holds with ok feet to clip 1.

Move to C2 for a no hands rest at the start of the upper bulgy face by C3.

Clip C4 and move straight up on black rock with tricky climbing past 2 clips to the ring anchors.

Tightly bolted.

Start with balancy moves on sidepulls and then into the long corner above. Climb by stemming, jamming, and moving between the corner, arete, and the crack to the right.

This has balancey, techy climbing on decent rock to a slab finish.

A tricky move at the start is followed by easier climbing above. This climb could really use some traffic to clean it up. It's certainly better now that Mike lowered the anchor.

This climb ascends good, clean gray limestone in a right-facing dihedral, angling to the right. It is just downhill (10 yards) from

Brown Chicken

. The climb requires technique and balance and will feel significantly easier if you are even slightly proficient at that style of climbing. The route features great rock and its only drawback is that it's so short.

Stem your way up the corner with mostly easy climbing but a couple of delicate cruxes with a finish out right on a slab.

The guidebook lists this as 5.9, but I've heard it rated 5.11, which seems too stiff. We thought it to be in the 5.10 range, probably easy 10.

Climb the lichen-covered face, trending to the right. The climb gets cleaner the higher you go, staying right of a precarious block up high. A decent outing and well protected, this climb's quality will improve as it cleans up.

Three Dog Night has vertical climbing with good / small holds to a small lip and a thinker exit to the anchors.

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