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Absorbine Junior 
Blocks, The 
Bridging the Gap 
Buckwheat 
Caterpillar 
Cave Crack 
Chicken fart 
Chicken Heart 
Cornered 
Crack of Dust 
Empathy 
Escapade 
Exit Stage Left 
Exit Stage Right / The L Word 
Fingerrip 
Gallwas Crack 
General Dynamics 
Handyman  
Hangman's Climb 
Intrinsic Value 
Knob Job 
Laundry Chute 
Left Overture 
Lilley's Delight 
Mariah 
Master of Defeet 
Mickey Finn 
Misbegotten 
Mission Gorge Traverse 
Never Intended 
Nutcracker 
obverse from the gap 
Owl, The 
Prime Directive 
Quack of Ducks 
Quantum Leap 
Rectum Roof 
Rock On 
Rock On Right 
Suzie's Wild Ride 
Sympathy 
Thumb Aid Climb, The 
Thumb, The 
Trapeze 
Unnatural Act 
Waiting for Bruce 
Wasp, The 
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Mission Gorge, Main Wall.

Description 

The Main Area wall includes such great climbs as Mariah, Suzie's Wild Ride, Crack of Dust, Escapade, Empathy, and the Gorge's longest climb the Mission Gorge Traverse.


Getting There 

From the kiosk at the second climbers loop enterance, follow the trail up the hillside along several switchbacks to the base of the main wall.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Main Wall:
Crack of Dust   5.8     Trad, 1 pitch, 30 feet   
Mission Gorge Traverse   5.8     Trad, 1 pitch, 100 feet   
The Owl   5.8     Trad, 1 pitch, 30 feet   
Suzie's Wild Ride   5.8+     Sport, 1 pitch, 80 feet   
Quack of Ducks   5.9     Trad, 40 feet   
Nutcracker   5.9     Trad, 1 pitch, 70 feet   
Gallwas Crack   5.9     Trad, 1 pitch, 70 feet   
Hangman's Climb   5.9     Sport, TR, 1 pitch, 40 feet   
Mariah   5.9+     Trad, TR, 1 pitch, 60 feet   
Chicken Heart   5.10a     Trad, 1 pitch, 30 feet   
Empathy   5.10b     Sport, 40 feet   
Rock On   5.10b     Trad, Sport, 30 feet   
Never Intended   5.10b     Sport, 1 pitch, 50 feet   
Rectum Roof   5.10b/c     Trad, 1 pitch, 75 feet   
Prime Directive   5.10c     Trad, Sport, 50 feet   
General Dynamics   5.11a     Trad, Sport, 30 feet   
Escapade   5.11a     Sport, TR, 1 pitch, 80 feet   
Trapeze   5.11 PG13     Trad, 1 pitch, 60 feet   
obverse from the gap   5.11c     TR, 50 feet   
The Thumb   5.12c     Sport, 1 pitch, 35 feet   
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Alan Nelson using a ground-down hook on a clean, hammerless, no-bolts lead of the forgotten A5 test piece "Misbegotten" 1976 unknown photographer, Original submission: Pywiak (rc.com)

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