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 Print a Mini-Guide - Includes Routes!DescriptionUpper Broadway is located on a sunny series of ledges below the east face. In general the rock is less featured than the West Face. Most of the routes are 5.7 or harder. Classic routes include Conns East (5.6), Soler (5.7), ALCOA Presents (5.8), Frosted Flake (5.9), Castor (5.10a), Pollux(5.10a), and Spock's Brain (5.11b?) Getting ThereUpper Broadway can be reached from the east face trail or by scrambling from lower Broadway The ClassicsMountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Upper Broadway:
Soler 5.7 Trad, 2 pitches, 200 feet
Alcoa Presents 5.8 Trad, 50 feet
Conn's East Direct 5.8 Trad, 1 pitch, 80 feet
Frosted Flake 5.9 Trad, 100 feet
Pollux 5.10a Trad, 45 feet
Castor 5.10a Trad, 1 pitch, 80 feet
Orangeaid 5.10b Trad, 1 pitch, 80 feet
The Changling 5.11c Trad, 1 pitch, 100 feet
Featured Route For Upper Broadway
 According to the guide book the crux is in the first 15 feet. That being said the next 30 feet or so is not easy either.The routes goes up a nice finger/hand crack for about 45 feet. After the large ledge the route contiunes up a right facing corner (5.8?) finishing on the Conn's East Ledge (Below Alcoa Presents)....[more] Browse More Classics in WV |
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