This is an odd one.  We climbed up the face facing the road, and on the left side.  After a bit of scrambling, you come to a very hueco-covered wall;...ascend this up the the shoulder of the formation.....Scramble around a bit, and find steep crack system (short ) to the summit. The climbing is funky and a bit wierd, and the anchor from the shouder is odd too;....a bunch of tied off dirt mushrooms and one pin in a hole.  It's a novel experience.  I had fun.  I did this climb with Tony Sartin in March of 1993.  Eric's Guidebook doesn't say too much of the climb; everyone sure has seen the formation, but how many have been to the summit?  Take a day off from the punishing splitters and bag a summit....just for kicks.

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Skitter up the rotten flake past a profane (yet pacifyingly solid) bolt and wiggle a couple of blue Aliens into the tips crack. From there, the crack goes through the size range. More of an endurance route than a cruxy one, but the .75 Camalot section is where I was feeling it the most (someone else needs to verify the grade). And just remember, this ain't granite (or Wingate for that matter): sew it up!

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Routes in Church Rock