This is on a nice, follow your nose section of the wall - great for beginners to wander at will and practice route finding, gear placement, and rope management. Begin in a deep inset, and climb up left onto a large edge. From here, work up and left into discontinuous cracks and big edges with wildflower bushes, or wander through the easy 5.4ish terrain to a ledge with a tree too small for slinging. Possibly belay, or continue right up the very easy corner to an option to summit or walkoff. The gear was cleaned on solo, but there are some options for anchor building. A hip belay may suffice.

Good Ormens

Ormes You Glad It's Not Banana!?

Running Orm-uck

Apes N' Ormes

Children of the Ormes

C.O.T.O. Right

Romp up above an easy corner/crack trending slightly right toward the imposing overhang above. Place some gear, pull the overhang (5.7ish), and it's over.

Start far left in the right-facing corner, and take the obvious line up the slab to the small roof. Either pull the roof or go right, landing you on the large walkoff tier. Locate a shallow, left-facing corner of many large broken blocks and edges left of the prow/arete. Follow the corner to a slightly leftward-trending exit.

This is the small satellite crag when walking to the right off of any of the routes. Choose a line up the small slab with perfect easy cracks and features.

This takes the main weakness up the middle of the lower wall to a walkoff option on the left and instead stays just right of the obvious, deep, and easy looking corner following fun, wandering blocks and cracks. The last traverse is a bit runout (PG-13) and is the crux, but you can get decent gear in (Metolius 8, or maybe a BD #3 or 4), though it will be well below you. Build an anchor in the easy 5th Class terrain or do what we did and sling one of the massive blocks above, and belay your 2nd up, then walk off.

Expect small amounts of loose rock and some holds to brush off with your hands depending where exactly you climb, as this is not well traveled but is mostly clean.

We used a 70m rope and DID NOT RAP.

This is a completely different start and adds about 70' of variation to the line. Head up the slightly overhanging face towards a small bush on the short first section, utilizing a nice, deep pocket at about chest level. Above, follow intermittent cracks up to the blocky arete, and follow this up and slightly leftward into a short hand crack. This links into

Children of the Ormes

(C.O.T.O.) above, so there is one last place for a Metolius 8 or similar in a parallel crack well below your feet before solving the easy but overhanging runout traverse (PG-13) to the small notch up on the right to top out.

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Routes in Ormes Peak