Quality face climbs are few and far between in Capulin but they do exist. Climb up a short ramp-like feature protected by a small nut and #3 camalot to a run-out but easy, featured slab. At the top of the slab, clip the first of five bolts and climb up between the two heavily featured, slightly overhanging runnels past four more bolts to a horizontal crack. Another medium nut fits in here great for the final moves to the anchor. 

Ciborium

Shul

More Witches

Nun Too Soon

Thurible

The Baptism

Sloth

A worthy warmup if you're in the area. Sloth climbs around a flake at the start to gain a left-facing-corner hand crack. Go up another short step above a small ledge to find the anchor bolts.

From the base of Nun Too Soon, you can't miss this offwidth roof. Starts in #5s, opens up to a #6, then pinches down from #4s to #3s through the overhang. 

 Note: Currently (Nov 2019) there is only one bolt hanger with a leaver biner.

Start at the base of the west face of The Torch. 

 P1) Traverse right past a tips slot to a hidden hand crack. Take the hand crack to it's top and step left onto a small ledge. Get into the business with discontinuous fingers and off-fingers cracks. Belay from a large ledge at the top of the face. 5.11+ P2) Climb the #5 offwidth to the final ledge. Pass two bolts (sling them long) and stand on top of the "flame", barely two feet by one foot. Down climb the last moves and lower off of the final bolt (locking carabiner). 5.8

 Four stars for the area for pitch one. Go to the top of the tower for fun.

Start at the base of a thin splitter with amazing and good face holds.  Good but thin gear protects the otherwise unusable crack until it widens at the crux.  Fun!!!

An interesting route with a very short, bolt-protected, bouldery crux down low to easier thin hands climbing with a short bit of wide, but easy, climbing to finish. Clamber up easy ground with tiny gear to where the crack pinches off. Clip the bolt and pull the tricky, cool, bouldery crux to a great finger bucket. From there the crack gradually widens from tips to thin hands to a nice resting slab. Above the slab, climb the wide, crunchy rock crack and corner (not as bad as it looks but do tread lightly) using the wide crack and pockets on the right of the crack. 

The obvious left-facing corner on the east side (west-facing)of the Sanctuary.  Step off the ground and place a tips piece t protect the start, then launch into an ever-widening perfect-cut layback crack to nice handjams above.  Pull the steep lip around a changing corner, up an easier ramp, then finish up a wide crack to the top.

This side canyon has both east and west facing walls, with a handful of worthy lines to climb.  It is a very aesthetic location laden with detached towers and gargoyles.  It also is a beautiful holdout of living pines following the recent fires that have plagued the area. Both Ponderosa and Doug Fir fill the scenery and provide extra shade.

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Routes in The Sanctuary