This route climbs the left leaning wide crack of mixed quality to the top of the buttress.  A good way to apply basic wide technique.  Some might avoid this climb, but you're not like them are you?  You're a unique and beautiful butterfly.

Cochise

Bowling Balls and BB Brains

The Threat

Tholian Web

Heatwave

Gripty Gravity

Little Big Horn

Climb a positive leaning ramp to the roof (crux)   jam through the roof and pull through it ! !   Then ascend a beautiful varnished crack to the top.

Old-school testpiece. Wendell maintained that this thing was safe to lead since small cams hit the marketplace, the second guy to try to lead this one broke his leg. After climbing it I can see why-this one is a highball problem with a bad landing (boulders) followed by the usual Willow Springs mellowness. The .10 moves are thin face and unprotected, the easier crack up top protects well with a single rack. I brought every small cam known to man, but nothing's going to keep you off the ground if you fall. The only placement possible down low is behind a paper-thin flake that you need as a handhold and you have to pull on gently so you don't break it. Placing behind the flake means if you fall you're still decking, and you destroy the only decent hold in the sequence. Sack up for this one or bring your sex pad and a spotter.

This is the crack on the immediate right of Hidden Falls. This route is water polished and gets pretty wet when the Falls are flowing.

Old route named after Star Trek episode. Since this is an ancient adventure route, I'm not going to betamax anyone, just heads up and enjoy it. Safer and easier than the route to the right. Rock's decent, not a real classic but a fun one-time deal and interesting to picture putting up pre-cams.

This route follows the thin seam past three bolts up a plated, varnished slab on the right side of the Lower Tier of Lost Creek. Walk off right, past Ragged Edges.

This is a great route that you have to climb. Pretty stout. Fun crack climbing down low, tricky crux mid-way up, follow the corner to a roof and a few psychological moves on to the face above. Take the faint crack right and up to the top of the cliff.

This cliff features several single pitch routes harder than the 5.10 and only a handful of moderates. Predominantly trad. Near the Falls there is little sun throughout the day, but most of the crag will get sun for the first half of the day unless it is deep Winter. Scenic.

Description

Location

Protection

Routes in Lost Creek Lower Tier