This route is a fun-fest adventure for folks looking for perfect hand corners. It has a hard, but bolted start(shared with its twin, Babe) that can be easily aided to get to ledge where the rewards await. Once at the ledge, the most fantastic hand crack on slightly overhanging but perfect stone with an incredible finish. Have to try it to believe it!

Paul Bunyan  5.12- or 5.10d C-0

The Cracken

Little John

Jack and the Beanstalk

The Giant Peach 5.12+ or 5.10+ C1

Babe

Start on a block at the base of a perfect finger splitter, place a 0.4 Camalot or yellow Master Cam to keep you safe, then launch into wild fingers to hands splitter for 80 feet.  End at a nice ledge with bolted anchor.

Scramble up behind a giant flake to the top of a large block.  A thin crack in an incipient right-facing corner leads up through challenging blocky ledges.  After 75 feet of this you reach a good horizontal hand-rail to the left of the crack to get a rest.  Above, another 75 feet of furiously tricky, very thin splitter crack looms ahead.  Climb through the next 10 feet using thin face holds and lots of technique to gain some amazingly well-textured finger crack and more face-holds.  Hard!!!!

To slay this Giant, weave up and through some large boulders to gain a ledge at the base of a flawless splitter that turns to a left-facing corner about 50' up. Climb fingers to hands for 120' through perfect rock that gives you just enough playful features to keep it under 5.11 while dishing out enough business to keep you focused, all the while leaning gently back to finish nearly 20' overhung from where you started!!!  Stunning!!!

This beast of a crack-climb ascends great quality rock that slightly overhangs the whole way so that the topout clears 20 horizontal feet from the base of the second pitch.  It starts by ascending 30 feet of really good 5.10 right facing corner to a large ledge system.  From here, you will want to belay for the next 155' section.    3 distinct 5.12 cruxes await you, each of a unique character. The first two are encountered close to the ground and have a bolt to help catch repeated falls (if necessary) or to help you pull through.    The route continues through 100' of astounding 10+ climbing with sections of great pockets and features but close enough to crack to place gear.  Then you hit the last 2 bolts at the final short crux when the pockets seem to run out. Set up for big throw to horn!!!

The harder twin to Paul B.   Same start as for Paul B., climb past 3 bolts and purple C3 to ledge, clip bolt and get second ledge.  Now look up at the clean tips crack on your right.  Yup.  Burly layback leads to rewarding stemming in surprisingly fun terrain.

This wall is downstream from the Main Wall, another 15 minutes walk.  It contains the longest, most continuous lines of nearly plumb cracks in the Canyon.  The routes tend to be big here.  For the most part, the wall gets full sun around 11am.  If trying to stay cool, you can escape to some good routes in the Sanctuary for some temporary shade until the wall goes back into shade after 4 or so.

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Routes in Hall of Giants