It's an arete with exposure and cool moves. It satisfies the itch for height, some risk and exposure, cool moves and holds, flow, and fun. You really have to be solid for the grade, don't push it because the landing isn't kind and could result in some injuries.

John Brown's Body

Wet Virginia Girlfriend

Nancy

The Rail-Grinders

Pine Wall Traverse

Beagles Love Blueberries

Embrace Your Inner Traddy

Just My Fancy

Mule Powered

Smooth Power

Matewan

Isaac Smith Arete

Pitch Pine

Bass Rock Bums

Lodgepole Pine

Virginia Pine

Clean Shaven

High and Mighty

Pocket Slab

Cindylicious

Coal Wars

Start of Something Great

What's Left of the Bait

Loblolly Pine

Standard Gauge Right

Red Pine

Traverse of Dwarves

The Funeral Procession

Hog Maw

Exterminate!

The Undercling Thing

Shortleaf Pine

Uniformity Principle

Doctor Who

The Secret Six

Bacon Lettuce and Tomato

Quick One Two

Minie Balls

Three Little Pigs

Pond Pine

Standard Gauge Left

Mad Dog Saloon

Sandy Hook Special

Chitlin

Chitlin Grind

Table Mountain Pine

Track Suit

Baldwin Thugs

The Company Store

Mountain Pine

Upside Down Cake

An Unlikely Warrior

Eastern White Pine

Untapped Rage

Canal Blues

Greasy Spoonin'

A tall arete with a distinct crux, be it mental or physical it still exists. Start on the bottom of the face, same as John Browns Body, move up and left to the arete and then up the area with help from the face to the right. When you climb to the flat ledge on the arete about half way up then move up and trend right into the face to finish.

Kind of awkward, not that good looking or obvious, but has some great holds to please your hands. Even has this unique scoopy pocket sidepull hold.  Started on jug on arete, used drop knee using arete and wall on other side of dihedral to get body tucked up underneath. Get up to the face where there are protruding plastic climbing hold like holds.  It ain't perty but it's fun.

in the small slot canyon/hallway, sit start and climb upward. Find the easiest path. Often used as a downclimb for the other problems.

It ascends the slab and arete on the left side of the main slab. Good gear placements.

Sit start far right and climb left until you reach the far left end of the wall. More enjoyable if you don't use the lip of the wall but instead stay on the face with jugs, pinches, etc.

head up the base of the slab then move right to use the arete. crux is low at the slightly overhanging bulge in the slab

Think like a traddy. climb the corner using the crack, the slab, and the wall to your left. Don't be embarassed to take gear and place it just for fun. We all wish this one was 100's of feet tall.

An easy line on the far right end of "The Pit". Jugs up a slightly overhanging wall and an easy top out and walk back down.

Sit start with the arete in your left hand and a pinch on a mini arete like hold out right and lower. Pull on and bring right hand into a squeeze hold on an overhang. Only works if used in opposition with the starting left hold on the arete. Then get left foot on and move left hand up to sloper crimper thing and then move up right again. Body position is important for the holds to be holdable. You will need to be squeezing and shifting. Harder than you might think at first glance.

Sit start on crimps moving up to a diagonal face, mantle.

Climb the start of "Coal Wars" and then move right into the headwall and top out the tallest part of this wall. Good problem but there is a block in the middle of the headwall that may or may not be loose, it's hard to tell. Make your own decision on its stability.

Far left side, traverse the rail just under the lip until you get to a pointed jug and drop off.

Arete to the right of Pocket Slab. climb it with your left hand on the arete, body on the face to the right of the arete.

Get on the wall using the obvious horizontal ledge. Move up right to a small incut crimper. Work your body up until you can grab the next ledge with your left and then finish on up.

Climb the steep slab with incut crimpers to top out. It's enjoyable to cruise up the incut crimpers and get some air under your feet.

A slab with nice holds and a pocket. Also has some exposure.

sit start, you could layback the edge of the right leaning crack but if you have crack technique you can work some hand jams and finger locks to gain the top.

sit start. Follow the left leaning rail with jugs all the way through to the top. The rail is on the right side of the cliff/area of the Tiers called "The Pit". The problem ends in a left facing corner on a ledge. You then climb up right a couple feet to walk off.

Begin on a jug on the base of the tall wall to the right of "Quick One Two". This problem doesn't use the wall on the left where "Quick One Two" is located. Use the jug to get up to a left hand fist jam and then pull on up to sloping jugs and climb until you can step over and stand on top of the cube to your left. You could easily stem or something to ascend but keep it clean and pretend that the wall to your left is not there. Doing so makes this more fun and the moves cooler. You don't often need to do a fist jam on a boulder problem but here is your chance.

So, you are probably going to want to move right and grab that juicy looking arete jug but don't take the bait. Use the incut flake crimpers and sack up and move up the face to top out. Staying left of the arete. When you get to the top take a peak down over the arete and notice the smooth, holdless, sloping top over the very tall exposed rocky ground and thank yourself.

Sit start on jugs, climb up through rails to get to pointed jug, trending slight right near top.

head up the easy dihedral to gain the ramp below the roof but climb up right onto the arete. Where the arete meets the overhang move left into the horizontal in the face between the cracks. then used finger lock in right crack, swung feet to left, moved left hand up left crack. Found this variation slightly harder than the left variation.

Left of the right leaning ramp/slot, kind of tucked in behind the ground rock, climb up the left arete with your hands and do whatever with your feet.

Begin Untapped Rage and then traverse right along the short overhanging wall using jugs and slopers, hands at or below the lip. The problem is sequential. The climbing favors the shorter climber.  The problem ends when you get to the obvious end of the overhanging wall where it hits a corner. Mantle up at this point. Don't use the horizontal pedestal of rock at the base of the wall near the right end. Doing so makes it less difficult, less fun, and is basically walking so take a hike instead. Any vertical rock is considered on. So, when you get to the right end of the traverse, and it's time to switch your feet from trailing to leading, use the vertical stone but not the horizontal pedestal.  Cool, low to the ground, safe moves if you have a pad.

Sit Start, connect to Smooth Power from holds at the bottom of the diagonal face.    When the problem was being done for the first time a funeral procession rolled by.

This is a great problem with big holds and some air under your feet. It flows and is a cruise if you climb above the grade but you still get a little height and head action so you won't be bored with your big bad self. It's basically a traverse with exposure on jugs. You get to be on the rock a little longer that the height of the rock alone.

 Start in the dihedral and get up to the horizontal crack with big holds, climb up to the horizontal, traverse out left until you turn the corner and find jugs to head up left a bit but then top out instead of going all the way left around the next arete where you would have to climb up anyway to get to the top. You kind of roll up/around the corner. The top out is the cherry on top since if flows just as nicely as the rest of the moves.

 Once you know the moves on this problem it is a great padless circuit problem.

Just like Doctor Who, since it shares the start moves, this isn't immediately obvious as a class for Harpers Ferry. It is unique to Harpers Ferry style and a real muscly bouldery blast. Start the same as Doctor Who on a left finger jug and a right hand jug. Move up right hand to a horizontal downsloping pinch hold. Move up left to a finger jug, get the right hand undercling and then make the super fun right hand cross all the way over move to a sloper jug you have to fall in to to make it good. Then move around the block squeezing on decent holds to gain the horizontal ledge and then you are done.

Get on the wall and work up toward a sloping bumpy hold. Then with your right hand get the undercling below the bumpy hold area and work your feet up and shoot your left hand up to grab a hold in the horizontal seam. The feet are not big. At least when you make the move up to the seam you are looking downhill instead of having your back facing downhill. That eases the mental stress.

sit start on jugs cutting up through rails and trending left to pointed jug

Climb on jugs up . A long move or two. see beta pic

You won't believe it is classic until you figure out the moves. The holds are not immediately obvious, they are atypical for Harpers Ferry and downsloping pinchy and totally different than most anything else you will climb at Harpers Ferry.  The moves are great, They are muscly, overhanging, and cruising up to the finish is protected by a right hand dynamic move that requires some hutzpah or excessive amounts of pads or a couple attentive spotters. The move, if missed, nearly gaurantees you are doing a little air time back toward some rocks. Since this problem is on the base of a cliff you will be going up about 20 feet and then probably walking off right toward the top of the John Brown Body block.  This problem is worth it, but not the most obvious upon first inspection. Don't use that crack off to your left, it would take you into a totally different line, and style of climbing. Start on a left finger jug and a right hand jug. Move up right hand to a horizontal downward sloping pinch hold. Move up left to a finger jug nearish the crack, then up right hand to a meathook downsloping hold, then up left to a downsloping pinch, then intermediates or not up to a side pull and then on up to the top.

This problem sit starts in the cave like area left of the Isaac Smith Arete. You start squeezing the left edge/arete slopers and a right facing feature in the face. Move up the left arete and grab a crimp out right in the face. Then move up the arete a bit more and use two more right facing features until you can transition into the point where the boulder leans against the cliff. Using the crack between the boulders move right and top out at the top of the Isaac Smith Arete.

A right leaning crack/flake/corner thing with incut juggers. The crux is probably when you get up to the ledge. You have a choice when you get to the "top". When you get to the ledge move right and then down climb to safety. Other exit options going upward get more difficult and dangerous.

Sit start on an obvious jug on the east side of the base of what looks like a mini pillar block.Pull on and make a dynamic move to the obvious ledge or move right hand up to get a pinch to stall and go again on. Either way, get to the ledge and mantle and climb up on top of the cube sitting on the ledge and celebrate. Just another quick problem to add to the circuit. It's fun too.

Slab to face climbing on small protruding crystalline crimps. As you near the top the holds disappear. Spanning the top blank section before the lip is easier the taller you are. The lip at the top is not good in all spots so if you are going to move dynamically to it you best know where to grab or else you will likely take a flight. The landing zone is good but narrow. A tree used to block the wall in this spot. It has fallen over and opened up this previously unclimbable line. Climbs similar to The Company Store but is taller and a bit harder and more risky to fall from.

a nice blocky problem with big holds. Also serves as a downclimb

Sit start on jugs, climb straight up. This is basically right over the high point of the ground rock beneath the wall.

Find the two parallel cracks exiting the roof near the top of the cliff. A large tree grows out of the cove below the roof. The roof is visible from the road. The left side of the roof ends at a chimney. Low angle dihedral climb gains the cove below the roof.  Using the left crack reach out of the cave to gain a horizontal that joins the two cracks. Using the cracks gain the top.

Begin on the left side of the overhang and move out right with right hand to holds near the arete of overhang. Get left feet up until can roll up and grab higher holds and establsih on the slab. Start holds for hands become feet for slab. 

sit start, layback the right leaning arete.

sit/squat start on the arete with an obvious flat but slightly sloping jug. Move straight up to top out.

This is the low start to Chitlin. It requires using the lowest holds which are on the lip of the overhang at the bottom of the arete. Right hand sloper squeeze. First move is most powerful. Pull off the ground with a heel hook right foot and move up to the large jug right handed that is the start to Chitlin. Then get a sidepull crimp under the tiny overhang and step up high and smack the next ledge. This low full start adds some more difficulty and uses the full height of the boulder.

Use jugs to ascend to the top. Few feet on face right of the right leaning slot/ramp

from start of The Funeral Procession climb out toward the road.

Start on "Just My Fancy" and then move left into the headwall where "Matewan" goes.

It's steep slab to face climbing on cool green rock. Not complicated but definitely fun.

Nearing the right side of the wall, climb on jugs to the top. sit start as always on this wall

Begin on a flat jug maybe 3 feet off the ground. Pull on and get to an upside down crimper for you thumb or whatever you can use. Work your feet up and get more fingers on the hold until you can use it as an undercling.

Climb the arete and face as a combo. Far left end of the wall.

sit start the short blunt arete and climb up nice holds. It's short but pretty fun.

Climb the slab on the left end of the 3rd tier level. It faces up river and is bounded on the left by a dihedral and to the right by an arete called An Unlikely Warrior. Confine yourself to slab climbing, don't use the arete out right and don't reach into the corner to the left.

This blunt arete to overhanging face can be difficult. It really helps if you are flexible and can high step. It overhangs and the holds are not the most obvious. It tops out to a nice rockover/mantle onto a somewhat sloping top. Get a spotter and a pad. Start on the arete on an obvious jug, go up the arete a bit and move right into the face directly above and to the right of the arete, and get to the lip to mantle onto the flat ledge that is the top of the roof. The dotted line in the beta photograph is suppose to indicate the line is not in view within the picture. Some people have interpreted it to mean that the climb comes out the overhang. That is not this line.

There are roughly 4 tiers/levels of rock to climb on. 

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Routes in The Tiers