Traverse the base of the wall on tiny crimps and slopers. This is great for improving footwork, working through intriguing technical challenges without taxing the arms, or meditating while climbing. Staying low through the lighter tan sections yields slab cruxes in the 5.10 range.

Quarry Traverse

The Middle Way

Non-Friction

Diatribe

Quarry Wall

Don't Stop Now

Left Arete

This is for the semi-obscure aficionados.  This is a feature that sees little traffic.  This scar in the landscape has yielded a few briefly pleasant, 65-degree-angle slab climbs.  Approach via the Mesa trail from NCAR or Chataqua.  There is a faint trail to its base, not too far from the Mesa Trail.

This is the route up the middle of the slab, just right of

Non-Friction

.  There is no fixed protection here.

Follow tiny edges and scoops up this smooth face (which apparently can get licheny with disuse) to a tiny seam higher up.  You can belay off trees above.

This is for the semi-obscure aficionados.  This is a feature that sees little traffic.  This scar in the landscape has yielded a few briefly pleasant, 65-degree-angle slab climbs.  Approach via the Mesa trail from NCAR or Chataqua.  There is a faint trail to its base, not too far from the Mesa Trail.

This is the leftmost of the routes with fixed protection here.

Follow small edges up the left side past 4 bolts (all 1/4").  The crux is between the 2nd and 3rd bolts.  The runout is healthy above the 4th bolt.  You can belay off trees above.

This is for the semi-obscure aficionados.  This is a feature that sees little traffic.  This scar in the landscape has yielded a few, briefly-pleasant, 65-degree-angle slab climbs.  Approach via the Mesa trail from NCAR or Chataqua.  There is a faint trail to its base, not too far from the Mesa Trail.

This is the route up the middle of the slab, right of

Non-Friction

and left of

Quarry Wall

.  It is perhaps the best route on the wall for the climbing.

Follow tiny edges up this smooth face that make you appreciative of the low angle of the rock.  Perhaps the Flatiron equivalent to Glacier Point Apron?  You can belay off the anchors of

Quarry Wall

or the trees above.

This is for the semi-obscure aficionados.  This is a feature that sees little traffic.  This scar in the landscape has yielded a few briefly pleasant, 65-degree-angle slab climbs.  Approach via the Mesa Trail from NCAR or Chataqua.  There is a faint trail to its base, not too far from the Mesa Trail.

This is the route up the middle of the slab, right of

Non-Friction

.

Follow small edges up this smooth face past 4 bolts (1/4") to a 2 bolt anchor.  The 3rd bolt seemed not very useful.  To escape, you can climb 20 feet up to the trees above.  You can also belay off trees above.

An incipient seam with a 2-4inch, shallow, left-facing corner.

Left Arete is an obscure trad line located around and to the left of Wood's Quarry bolted face.  The climb starts behind a pine tree.  Follow the low angle blunt arete (not really an arete at all) up over fairly easy terrain.  Pass a couple of marginal small cam/nut placements.  There is a good amount loose rock on the route.  Anchor in a horizontal crack near the top of the arete where the arete begins to rejoin the hillside.  Walk off left and down to the start.  The loose rock, poor protection, and less than aesthetic climbing all conspire to make this an uninspiring outing.  Find something else in the area.

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Location

Protection

Routes in Woods Quarry