Climb easy slab up to a steep slab with some crack features that look vaguely like pin scars. If you close your eyes, you might even be able to imagine you’re climbing the famous Serenity Slab in Yosemite Valley. Crank through these cool pods and up the slab above.

Serenity Slab

Conglomeration Gyration

Over the Rainbow

The OS, Original Slab

Stages of Life

The Nitty Gritty Rock Climb

Slab Superstar

Cobbles and Bits

Coblin Valley

Start with the first bolt between a small juniper sapling a tiny bush. The slab crux comes early on some steep, smoother slab at about the 4th bolt. Then climb into some big huecos and right of a big flake. Climb the featured but crumbly flake, and finish on the slab above.

Over the Rainbow is a long, fun slab pitch that climbs up and over a flake. A single 70 meter rope rappel won’t get you to the base, so tie knots. You need to downclimb, bring two ropes, or traverse east at the top to a shorter Upper Slab route.

This is the original route. Climb up and left off the belay, following bolts and leading to a crack. Protect with cams up to a #4, although you could maybe bring a #5 or doubles in some sizes if worried about soft rock and you want to sew it up.

Climb to a hole at the 2nd bolt, then move left of a buttress feature, finishing with slab above.

Start in a big hueco, shared with the start of

Over the Rainbow

. Make steep slab moves going up and slightly right, and gain a big, right-facing corner system. Climb right of the corner and left of a large bush. Two small overlaps will be passed right of the corner. Continue on slab moves above to a crux overlap near the top.

This was bolted on lead - the bolts are spaced out relative to other routes but will be replaced at some point with glue-ins.

From the base, it’s 120 feet long, but you can start and finish on a stance on the slab with a 70 meter rope. Tie knots in the ends!

Slab Superstar is slab climbing deluxe. The first bolt is 2 feet left of the belay anchor to protect cruxy moves off belay. This takes a full 70 meter rope to rappel, so tie knots in the ends.

Climb past the first two bolts of

The OS

, then climb up and right.

Climb above the belay to a bolt and then right of a flake with really bad rock. Continue past, and the rock quickly improves as you go up the slab with generously spaced bolts.

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Location

Protection

Routes in Upper Slab