Start in the beautiful, tan corner with sustained climbing/good feet off the deck to clip C1 & C2. Cruxy thinker moves to C3 will get you up and right to a good stance.  Climb straight up past C4 to a horizontal break. Clip C5 and climb the short face to C6 with a huge, righty pocket and thin, lefty crack moves. After C6, move left on the ledge to clip C7. Jet straight up on nice, vertical climbing with big, flat edges past 2 clips to the chained anchors.

Sleeps with the Fishes

Sand Dollar

Call to Arms

Soluble Fish

Unknown 5.10a

Wild Kippers

Tuna! Tuna! Tuna!

Living in a Vacuum

Seaweed

Dolphin  Dancing

Wading Through a Ventilator

Happy Nightmare Baby

Sockeye

Lost in Your Ocean

Sea of Joy

Have a Blast

Crabzilla

Lost in Your Ocean has stiff climbing to C1. Hug the black arete for 3 clips with nice, hidden holds and thinker feet to a smallish break. At the break, climb past C5 to the anchors.

In the ocean corner just left of [Tuna Tuna Tuna] gets morning shade long after the [Mural Wall] is baking.

A series of boulder problems over an upside-down staircase of roofs, split by good rests.  Start in the corner and traverse out right onto the easy slab.  The first, hardest crux is turning the lip of the first roof, with a dyno to hard to see crimps.  Another easy slab leads to the next roof, where a traverse to the arete on the right leads to some spooky blocks and an easy traverse back left to the anchor.

Climb a pocketed, dark wall, then through a somewhat rotten band to a roof at the top of the climb.

Pretty much the leftmost route at the Fish Wall (there's a short three-bolt job a little further left next to another two-bolt route that is missing its hangers) is this fun little number. It's just left of

Living in a Vacuum

on the same panel of rock.

Cruise chunky but decent rock through some cool holds and huecos down low to a faint arete below the right-arching crack. The fifth bolt is hidden but is just above this little arete. Bust right of the arete or take the arete straight on (more fun and not really any more difficult) to the grungy crack. Good and smooth hand jams (optional but recommended) take you up the right-arching crack to a steep move just before the anchors.

This feels pretty soft for the grade and makes for a more enjoyable warmp-up in the area than

Seaweed

.

Wild Kippers ascends positive and quite sharp rock for two bolts to some huge pockets at a horizontal. Move up into a shallow groove and the third bolt. Climb through the groove, right of the bolts, through the crux to another good horizontal. Traverse left up through an off-set crack to shared anchors with

Sockeye

, the 5.10 route left of Wild Kippers.

Make some crimpy moves on the dark wall just off the ground, then move through lower-angle, slightly rotten rock. Pull the roof at the top to finish.

This route is left of

Call To Arms

and is described as "just left of the large dihedral" in Knapp's Shelf Road Rock guidebook.  In fact, there are now two routes left of the dihedral neither of which seem consistent with the .10c rating the guidebook offers.  The route immediately left of the dihedral (presumably Living in a Vacuum) has a very thin 5.11ish crux between the 3rd and 4th bolt that sent my partner traversing left into the next route over which felt more like 5.8 or 5.9.

Anyone know the beta on either of these routes?

This is just right of

Soluble Fish

. Around the corner, it goes up small dihedral then up some discontinuous corners. It is mostly easy climbing with one 5.2 20 foot runout which might freak out some little girls.

This route is the second climb from the left on the left side of the Fish Wall, between

Sea of Joy

and

Have a Blast

. It climbs the face past 8 bolts.

This route shares the first few bolts with

Happy Nightmare Baby

. Start just left of the main corner in the Fish Wall, near a pine tree and a block which leans against the wall. At the first ledge, move up and left (

Happy Nightmare Baby

goes up and right). Climb up the thin face to a small, right-facing corner, then move up and left to the anchors at the top of the cliff.

This is a great name for a pretty darn good route.

To find this route, head up to the mural wall and turn left. Hike for approximately 100 yards until you turn right into a pretty big corner system. On the right wall, there should be two bolted lines (the left one is

Tuna! Tuna! Tuna!

and the right one is

Soluble Fish

, both are 11b/c). On the left hand wall will be a bolted route in which a kind of gnarly, soft looking crack will be on the right side. This is HNB.

Cautiously crimp to the first and second bolt. Here you will be faced with a choice. The straight up method is fairly thin but aesthetic. Most people head over to the crack on the right, which also provides enjoyable climbing.

Just left of "

Wild Kippers

" and sharing the same anchors is "Sockeye". The guidebook calls it 5.10c/d, but that seems way off. Beware of kicking off rocks onto your belayer on this one.

This is the leftmost route on the left side of the Fish Wall. It climbs up the face near the arete.

This route starts left of

Wading Through a Ventilator

/

Happy Nightmare Baby

, left of the large, main corner on the Fish Wall and just left of a block.

Start in the red and black corner with good feet and good holds for 2 clips. When ready, move left to the face on reachy holds to C3.  At C3, reach for the killer pocket out left and gain the good rest ledge. The hardest of two cruxes begins here and this first crux is possibly harder for the shorter climber.  Grab pretty small edges and climb straight up this short 2 bolt face with tricky feet and reachy, sharp edges to a smallish ledge. Jog right to C7 then go straight up on great pumpy holds to the anchors.

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