Start with thin moves on perfect stone, and repeat for 80 feet.

Great sustained vertical crimping all the way to the anchor.

Awesome route!

Wu-Tang's Wild Shinto Ride

Center El Shinto

Bovine Blitz

Great Green Gobs of Greasy Grimey Greenie Guts

Macaroni

Wutang's Secret Shinto Ride

Euro Trash

The Thunderbolt Three Slapper

Right El Shinto

Wafer thin Mint

Wyoming Flower Child

Get Me A Bucket

Dope Shinto

100,000 Miles (Burning that gasoline)

Werewolves in London

Lancet

Left El Shinto

This thin little beast lives the name.  Ride a thin bouldery start past the first bolt.  The climbing stays thin but provides better feet for most of the line, but watch out for continuous dope climbing on flawless rock to the chains.  Solid or even hard at the grade.

One of the best near vert lines around.  Fun climbing through the first half leads to increasing difficulties.  A tricky technical crux at 2/3 height leads to more thin climbing to the anchors.  Stellar rock.

Start next to 'Warewolves' and 'Euro-trash' and climb the right side of the corner past two bolts to a ledge with a 2-bolt belay stance. You can skip the belay and continue(long runners useful here) up the left side of the face, and over a small roof. Steep climbing up the headwall leads to anchor on the right.

This route is one of a triad of moderate routes that lay just to the right of

Wyoming Flower Child

.  Leave your guns at home as this is no enduro-pumpfest.  To finish this route, you will need to stay on your toes (literally).

Start just to the left of

Wafer thin Mint

, follow a line of six bolt through thin edges to the anchors of aforementioned route.  You will find that getting off the ground is most likely the most difficult part of this route.  However, thin-ness abounds and you will need to stay balanced throughout the climb.

Although similar in its technical nature to

Wafer thin Mint

, I found this route to be considerably more enjoyable as the rock seemed a little nicer.  Don't fall on this thing though, as you will probably end up sliding across the horizontal knife edges that make up this route.

no real crux although it does feel a bit awkward.  kind of a body positioning thing.

getting off the ground and making the first couple moves is the crux.  not a bad idea to stick clip the 1st or 2nd bolt.  some good fun cranking on little crimps too bad its really really easy after that.  probably helps if your a bit taller.

Fun airy climbing on this line.  Well bolted - so if the look of the line scares you - don't worry give 'er a go.  Carefully climb the start avoiding rodent dung as you pass the initial corner.  Find the best way to traverse left into the airy arete.  Search for the best holds on nice solid swiss cheese limestone.  Fun climbing all the way to the chains eases as the angle recedes.  Grade is debatable - given 10d in the guidebook.

Added this to clear up any confusion as this climb splits from Bovine Blitz after the belay anchor.

Fun crimping to several big under clings under a roof bulge. Reach for a good rail and continue up for more face climbing to the same anchor as Bovine Blitz.

Right El Shinto is a linkup between Center El Shinto and Wyoming Flower Child.  The two lines are bridged by 20 feet of awkward traversing and poor rock.  Considering all the other great lines around, leave this one on the very bottom of your To-Do list.  The crux comes right at the end, negotiating a cryptic squence on the blue slab just below the anchor.

NOT a good warm up, perhaps worth doing, but not until you've done the many other classics at the area. Climbs sharp crimps and pockets on near vertical rock.  There are a few fun laybacks at mid-height, but mainly you'll be on thin crimps and pockets.

A very good line, only less in comparison to the other routes nearby -- four stars anywhere else.  Climb the easy crack start to the technical slab / vert section above.  A thin technical crux arrives just before the anchors.

To the right of Wafer Thin Mint trending up the grey rock. Small holds, decent warm up.

This route climbs a sharp face/arete for about 20' and then continues up a crack using holds both in the crack and on the face.  The crux is at the bottom of the route and the rock is pretty sharp but I thought the climbing up the crack was really fun.

A nice line that runs just to the right of

Euro Trash

.  Follow the first couple of moves of

Euro Trash

and then break right onto the pocketed face above.  Follow the bolt line through a series of sharp, slightly bulge-y pockets for about 90'.  The crux comes toward the middle, where good pockets become difficult to identify and the pump begins to set in.  After this, it's smooth sailing through big jugs.

Climb just right of the black (sharp!) arete.  The crux comes as the wall steepens and the rock become more sharp.

Immediately left of Center El Shinto, following the prominent streak just to the left.  Possibly easier than CES because of better rests.

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Routes in Sector Shinto