This climb has a direct start, which climbs up the face directly beneath the hand crack about 15 feet high. There are a couple opportunities for protection before getting all the way to the crack. The other start utilizes a crack system to the right, and then traverses back left to join the proper hand crack. Climb the hand crack to a couple of poorly equalized slung plates (fixed carbiner is tri-loaded, and proper equalization is necessary to make this a safe piece of fixed gear. Climb above the plates and traverse right and up into a fist crack. Make some tricky moves in the fist crack and top out onto a ledge. Walk about 15 feet right to a single bolt anchor.

Reach for the Beach

Laceration

Synergy

The Exodus

Per Red River Climbing: "Walk left from [Reach For The Beach] for several hundred feet past a very large ampitheater. Directly past the ampitheater is a nice looking dihedral. Climb the dihedral to a ledge then move right to a large tree and belay. Continue up a flake to a ledge near a crack splitting the roof."

We made two rappels, but you could probably make it with 70m, though I wouldn't recommend it because of loose rocks at the top of P2.

The route is slopey but fairly easy. Start on the ground behind the tree and follow the obvious hand crack up the slope and top out. Beware the hollow rock at the top marked with an "X" in the topo. The whole route was mossy and some of the footing was slippery so beware of a fall backwards into the tree. It was my first ever trad lead so I found that a lot of my gear wandered and it was a trek of Biblical proportions to get here. Hence the name.

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Routes in Mariba Fork