Difficult moves at every bolt. Cool slab climbing with great protection.  At the third bolt...step left and down a little to a good pocket. Crank up on the pocket with little for the feet to some good edges, high step and clip the fourth bolt (crux). Reach another mantle at the fifth bolt, gain a ledge and the anchor.

One of the better slab routes in the canyon.

Miss Mantle

Cracks are for Kids

No Man is an Island

This has sustained climbing on decent rock, but perhaps not worth the trip. It seemed quite hard to me, harder than many of the recent 11a Boulder Canyon sport climbs.

Approach: from left of center of the main face, scramble to a grassy ledge and then up left towards a steep gully just left of a bolted arete. The bolted arete is No Man is an Island, 11a.

Cracks are for Kids

is the obvious crack system to the left.

The climb: The difficulties start with an interesting move off of a diagonal dike at the 3rd bolt. At the 4th or 5th bolt, I got sketched after committing to the very rounded arete. Around the 6th bolt you step left, lower is easier, to the edge of some dirty rock and then up.

Clean rock is for kids? The dirty and treacherous start and shortness of the route more than makes up for the decent hand-jamming on the upper half.

Rossiter says first ascent unknown, perhaps c. 1982 and perhaps named then Dogge Doo Buttress. The climb was named Cracks are for Kids by Elaine and Erik Chandler after an ascent in 1988.

Approach: from left of center of the main face, scramble to a grassy ledge and then up left towards a steep gully just left of a bolted arête. The bolted arête is

No Man is an Island

, 11a. Cracks are for Kids is the obvious crack system to the left.

The climb: sketchy moves off the ground standing on grass bogs and finger jamming on lichen get you to some Alien placements. Wriggle up a little higher to a jug and the base of the hand crack. From there it's straightforward to the top of the pillar.

Getting down: Rossiter shows the route scrambling up and left, but that's a long way. Instead, set up a trad anchor in a crack above the pod above the right side of the pillar and lower down clipping the bolt anchor of No Man is an Island (hard to see on the right side of the pillar). You can't easily just run the rope from the top of the crack through the anchor bolts, because that would form a double right angle bend across the top of the pillar. The second can clean the trad anchor, climb down to the bolts and lower or rappel from there.

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