Looking for something a little different?  This route will test your balance & footwork more than your fitness.  The technical prow requires patience and focus, not the typical bulging forearms found elsewhere along these cliffs.  For this reason, this route is a poor warmup (except maybe for other weirdness like Swahili Slang) but it can offer some entertainment after The Undertow Wall has worked you over.

Begin with easy stemming up the dirty, mossy gulley.  Move left onto the prow, and work between the horizontal breaks with long reaches and highsteps.  Look left for the occasional sharp, incut edge.  The right side of the arete will provide sloping sidepulls at a few key moments.  The sustained nature of the climbing will keep you on your toes, and the stingy bolting will keep you focused.

Ball Scratcher

Stain

Trad Sucker

Golden Touch

Heart Shaped Box

The Cream Machine

Buff the Wood

The Chronic

The Reacharound

Twisted

Leftomaniac

Rug Muncher!

Overdrive

One-Eyed Willy Up the Back

This overlooked route makes for a good warmup, once you've done all the standard lode warmups.  A thin low angle start with some engaging moves leads up to a standing no hands rest.  From the rest break right (the correct bolt is difficult to see until you pull around the corner, but it is easy to correct if needed) pulling difficult moves that may be difficult to decipher.  Unfortunately the crux is quickly over and the anchors arrive.

Bouldery line to the left of Buff the Wood. Pull a exciting crimpy crux to the third, then head left for a little, and fire through the sequential face to the anchors. Try hard on the last move!

I believe there are two ways to start.  Below or on top of the large block.  Either way I would stick clip the first bolt.  Ascend the steep face on very positive holds.  Use a combination of sidepulls and jugs to the fourth bolt.  Pass a small bulge using smaller crimps and hit a large horn to the left to set the clips.  If you don't see the horn than gun for a large jug on the right, just above the chains.

Climbs the orange (golden) streak to the right of 'stain' and 'buff the wood'.  Requires the use of a credit card-sized, 3 finger crimp.

If you like crimps, you'll love this line. Pull on good edges for the first three bolts, make the clip and power to the heart shaped box. Get a shake and climb progressively smaller crimps to the anchors. Clipping the chains is interesting.

Possibly the most overlooked sport climb at the Motherlode?  An interesting slab that starts in a small, vertical scoop feature and continues up debris covered, low angle rock with water grooves and edges to the top.

Start on the right side of the scoop and make a few steep moves to establish yourself on some protruding edges on the left face.  A couple perplexing moves get you to a stance about 10 feet below the fourth bolt.  Balance up and left along slopey water grooves then shuffle right along a juggy rail to clip(PG13 part).  Mantle over the rail and continue up much easier slab using edges to the top.

I admit that this route is dirty, but the rock is great and the climbing is very fun.  Might not be the best route for a budding 5.10 climber.   Great option if you are looking for an adventure.

Amazing bouldery route. Boulder through edges and fingerlocks to a crack. Take a quick rest at the crack and moveout to some crimps. Make a big deadpoint to a crimp rail, follwed by another huge move to a monster jug. Shake out and climb through some moderate climbing to a boulder problem on pockets. Cruise to the anchors.

Start up the slab as if you were going to do Twisted but cut left after the second bolt and follow pockets up a short, steep face to anchors below a small roof.

A bit of an awkward route, it's less contrived than it looks. It's bouldery for the grade, with about 2 bolts of business.  Start around the corner to the left on a slab, after 2 bolts, step around the corner, around a crack, then power up the steep face with big bold moves on bad holds. There is a long runout past the last bolt, but the moves are easy.

Looking for a decent warmup that's rarely crowded?  You could do worse than Twisted although I wouldn't go out of my way to do this route.

To the left of Stain is a slab that leads to a crack/dihedral feature that's the shared start of 3 routes.  All three climb the slab and then heading left is the Chronic, stay in middle is Twisted, and going hard right around the arete is the Reacharound.

For Twisted, climb the slab (a little sketchy to the second bolt if you're still half asleep) and then up into the crack for a bolt or two. [Don't go left to early, that's the Chronic.] Step left and climb steep jugs for a depressing short time to anchors.

A decent route with a slab start, a standing rest in the middle and a steep finish.

Crimpy slab moves on slightly friable rock get you to a huge scoop where you can relax and scope out the steep upper half.  Exit the scoop, and follow deep pockets, and cool pinches to 5 feet below the anchor where the holds seem to peter out.  Cut hard left to some knobs, and do an exciting finish move to the lip.

Top gets wet in heavy rain.  Will be a nice route when the rock cleans up a bit more.

Obvious Crack system to the Right of 'Heart Shaped Box' The crux is climbing on to the slightly overhanging bulge mid route. It can be easily protected with a .5 and .75. Then just push through the lie-back until the resting holds at the top.

Not a great route, but it's there if you want it.

The start of this route is very odd but fun. Balancy and not obvious. Work around to the left slightly. The top of the route tends to give people issues on their first go.

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