A bouldery start into a funky dish thing moves left to the arete and then back right to the patina face for a sporty finish.  Lots of variety and options for creative line choice packed into a short route.  Stout and lots of fun!  Gets morning shade, and some afternoon sun relief from the tree.

Micro Pillar

Puzzle Wall

Reservations

Radachello

Smoke Signal

Raindance

Tither's Jam

Quest for Fire

Tribal Boundaries

Tail Feather

City Girls

Firewater

Enjoy some fine (cruxy) slab climbing before grabbing the glory jug and hauling it to the anchors! A fine outing if you're up for the slab.

This route gets AM shade and PM sun.

This route is located just to the right of Tribal Boundaries.  The climbing is on par with the moves on its well protected neighbor.  There are a handful of bolts, but trad gear is needed for the start and to supplement the bolts higher up.  Calderone gives this route a "X" rating, so climb at your own risk.  There is one tricky placement at the start that will make this route more sane to lead.

This is a slab climb, the crux is about mid way with the holds becoming sparse, but with enough friction it is easily overcome.

Plenty of big holds on the climb that is very positive. Several wide cracks along the route may make it easier if you traverse right to offer protection

There are two sets of shelfs up near the top before reaching top. After the second shelf, climb becomes a lot more vertical.

A fun steep climb with a short crux.  Long moves and a difficult sideways reach (crux) make up most the climb.

A huge slab, which looks detatched, sits at a relatively low angle on the northeast corner of Flaming Rock. Raindance goes up this slab.

(1) The first pitch wanders up blocks to a two-bolt (hanging) belay just below the big slab.

(2) Surmount the small roof and continue up... and up... the long slab, expecting some good healthy runout (nothing too severe) in places.

Rappel the route back to the base with a 60m rope.

This is the overhanging jam crack to the right of Firewater.  We approached via the small roof for the first pitch.  Climbing it as multiple pitches allows for a tighter belay at the cruxy second pitch start.

This route is located down the trail from Tribal Boundaries about 100ft.  It is located just to the right of Firewater, which it shares anchors with.  Pull through a large hole and follow the fun pocketed wall above.  A few interesting slab moves leads to an anchor up and left.

Steep edging through patina, with a slopery finish.

This route is on the northern end of the west face of Flaming Rock.  Traverse the ledge in from the right.  There is a bolt for the belayer at waist level.  There are two 5.10a routes here.  The left, all bolt, line is Tribal Boundaries.  The right route requires some small gear.

The first couple of hangers are homemade jobs, the rest are factory.

This route appears to be the now-bolted top-rope Dave Bingham mentions

here.

It takes a direct line which stops at its own anchor about 10' below the top of P1 of

Raindance,

(although the last bit of slab to the Raindance anchor is worth climbing).

Scamper up a steepish shallow dihedral with crumbly quartz chunks to interesting moves on good patina then get your slab game on and friction up a pillar to the right of a tree, using the edge of said pillar to keep the climbing moderate.

Another route from the ladies who helped put up She's the Bosch.  This fun route is located on the north side of Flaming Rock.  The route starts on the other side of the creek bed, so getting your rope wet when you pull it is a possibility.  Follow a right trending groove to a pocketed headwall.  The buckets in the overhanging finish are a little on the sharp side.  Overall, this is a fun route.

This route and Quest for Fire are located right below Tribal Boundaries down the trail about 100ft.  Both routes head through brown pocketed patina and share anchors.

Start just to the left of Quest for Fire. The first bolt is a ways up there,  and there is a runout to the second bolt.  The crux is in the brown face above is well protected.  It follows a thin crack system.  Finish on a white slab to anchors on the right.

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Routes in Flaming Rock