Hotline climbs the righthand arete of the Alternative Crag, keeping on the overhanging side. 

  Steep rock, powerful moves, no holds smaller than a full pad characterize this fun route.

Hotline

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Nirvana

Psychic Eye

Flying Rats

Pravana

The Prophet

Paralyzed

Nirvana is a great route and tests your power endurance.  Begin on the right side and commit up the slab and crack to the first bolt.  From here go up and over the bulge to the arête/face with a wild dynamic move to gain a descent hold.  Traverse leftward with few feet and a hard pocket move to gain the left side of the wall.  Shake out and go back right on a pumping rail and hopefully not a heart breaker finish move.

Some technical moves on small feet and sidepulls meets up with the upper half of Paralyzed, which tests how well you can recover on rests.

A definitive crux on this one, paired with enjoyable and technical climbing, makes for a fun and challenging route.  Definitely a couple notches more difficult than Paralyzed, with wich it shares the arete start.

Start on the Prophet and finish on Nirvana.

Pull through the roof and up a right leaning blunt arete to a step right around a bulge.  Crank straight up onto the very steep face that follows and leads to the anchor.

Climb the arete for two bolts (bolts on west face, not north) and pull onto the west face, following a rightward trending line to an anchor in the middle of the face at the top.

Alternative Crag is an excellent sport destination with several high quality routes ranging from .11b to .13a/b.  This crag is shady, with the west side receiving some afternoon sun.  There is a great, flat place at the base to hang out.  It can be quite breezy here as well.

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Routes in Alternative Crag