Outing Club:Destinations:White Rocks at Pond Bank

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White Rocks at Pond Bank Topo

0. UNNAMED WALL (5.4) – Start right of ragged. Face climb to bolt without hanger or chopped bolt then up the face. You can get better pro on the bottom if you start on Calvin’s Corner. Move up to a ledge with a tree (shared with Calvin’s Corner) and continue up the face to the right of Calvin’s Corner. Reach a ledge and then follow a crack in the face above Calvin’s Corner

  1. CALVIN’S CORNER (5.3) – Climb the inside corner right of Ragged to the ledge with a tree, then follow the corner to another ledge shared with the Unnamed Wall.
  2. RAGGED (5.3) - Start ten feet right of Down Climb. Start at bottom and climb to the top.
  3. GOLD FACE (5.5) - Climb gold colored face on right wall at Down Climb. .
  4. DOWN CLIMB (3rd/4th class) - Go through the small cave at the top of the trail. On the descent, look for the cave on your right as you come from the top of JIM’S Throne.
  5. T.P. CORNER (5.6) - Climb the right face of the comer.
  6. SHIT FACE (5.10+) - Start at the base of the small slab. Climb the left wall of the right¬ facing corner just to the left of the corner’s crack. .
  7. THE WANDERER (5.6/5.10) - Start at the center, of the face, fifteen feet right of the Chimney. Easier to the left, harder to the right. should wonder how to protect.
  8. CHRIS CORNER (5.3) - Outside comer eleven feet right of Chimney.
  9. WELL. GROOMED WHEN PRUNED (5.4) - Obvious off-width in comer eleven feet right of Chimney.
  10. BOLT RIGHT (5.9) - Start same as Bolt Left. ,AT ledge, climb face right of bolt and through center of overhang.
  11. BOLT LEFT (5.6+) - Start at the comer just right of the Chimney. At ledge climb the face left of the bolt to the top.
  12. CHIMNEY (5.1) - Take your best shot.
  13. NASTY CRACK (5.9) - Start two feet to the right of a small tree. Follow a small crack up the left tace of the Chimney.
  14. SIGN OF ZORRO (5.5) - Climb outside comer Just left of Chimney.
  15. JIM'S THRONE (5.4 G) - At the obvious crack fifteen feet to the right of Chimney. Climb crack to notch and then up small ramp that spills the face.
  16. CORNER ROUTE ( 5.3 PG-13 or PG) - Escape to the right of Thin Crack. Follow left-facing comer to top. Better pro, but rope drag if you start on JIM’S THRONE.
  17. THIN CRACK (5.7 R) - Start 24 feet left of the Chimney. Climb the small crack that splits the face above the ledge.
  18. PINE TREE (5.5) - Start below the pine tree at the left end of the main face. Climb comer to the top.
  19. GONADS (5.9-) - Start at the left facing but right slanting flake 6 feet left of the pine tree.
  20. REACH AROUND BOO (5..6) - Start five feet left of Gonads. Traverse under the overhang to the right. Finish on the comer.
  21. SEVEN PERCENT SOLUTION (5.7) - Start eight feet left of Reach Around Boo. Pull overhang just off the ground. Follow the crack. to the comer.
  22. HANGULATION (5.8 - 5.10 R) - Climb up the thin face to the left of the corner next to SEVEN PERCENT SOLUTION. Pass a chopped bolt and head straight up.
  23. Roof Crack (5.9 – 5.11) – The main route at 5.9 follows the wide crack in the corner up and out through the roof. Difficulties end just after pulling the roof. The 5.11 variation heads straight up the thin face right of the crack and pulls through the roof with out the use of the crack or left wall.