Still not ready to lead 5.9 slabs like Stranger than Friction?  Then Dust Bowl Daze is a less heady alternative.  The runout start and a balancey overhang up high make this one of Currahee's most interesting "easy" lines. 

  Climb the slabby face to a shallow overlap where you can finally get in some gear.  Continue up to an overhang above a narrow ledge (crux) about 2/3 of the way up.  High-step/mantel the overhang and continue to the top.

Dust Bowl Daze

Stranger than Friction

Trad and True

Stripes

All I Wanted was a Pepsi

Mikey's Mantle

Deprived Mikey

Shock Treatment

Bars

Kemoslabee

Direct Shock

Winter Solstice

Shits and Grins

Stars

Deprived Direct

Battle of the Bulge

Frictionary

A Wing and a Prayer

Deprived Child

Bail on the Bulge

Summer Solstice

By Gully

A challenging route with some good variety.  Climb a short dihedral and pull a shallow roof/bulge.  Move up the thin face to a somewhat dirty tree ledge; pull the ledge and continue on friction to the top.

Another nice friction climb with a steep start that makes stick-clipping the first bolt a prudent choice. 

  Follow the steep face to a small overhang (pro can be placed here or in the small vertical crack below it).  Continue up the right side of a big flake and onto gradually easier terrain to the top.

On the FA the route was rap cleaned then led ground up. It still needs a good cleaning periodically, to get the loose dirt out of the gear placements and in the vertical seam section, since it gets runoff from the trail above. 

  You start at the far left end of the slab, just right of the mossy stuff. Climb straight up a ways to a horizontal crack that takes good gear, continue up past a vertical seam, then traverse right about 8' until you're under the obvious horizontal overlap. You can crawl under the overlap and place a couple of decent cams, then pull the overlap on nice small face holds, wander up the face above to a hidden #3.5 Friend or #3 Camalot on your left, then finish up the obvious thin crack through the bulge to the top. You can share the bolted anchor station with Pepsi.

From the bottom of the descent gully, drop down about 15 feet to the right and start on the slab directly underneath the first bolt. Slab up and get a piece of gear in the low horizontal then slab some more to the first bolt. Cruise up to the slight over hang and clip the 2nd bolt. Make a somewhat strenuous high step using some crimps (crux) and find your way up to the horizontal and a gear placement. Move through a little run out easier ground and stand up in a depression to clip the 3rd bolt. At the small roof, clip the bolt and stay left (harder) or move right (juggier) to get over the roof. Stand up and finish to the 2 bolt anchor on jugs. Be careful of the obvious flake feature under the roof as it will likely have pieces break off as this gets climbed more. .

If you need to get your friction-climbing head together, this is a good warm-up for some of the harder lines at Currahee. That having been said, Pepsi isn't an easy romp for the grade; like many another slab route, the crux is down low, and there's no pro in the first 40' or so.

 Make delicate friction moves through the start, then continue up on easier ground, passing one bolt about midway, and follow a crack to the top.

 Update to reflect the fact that there are two bolts now.

As noted in the name, a balancy mantle move is the crux in this excellent route. 

  Start below a left-arching overlap.  Smear up to the overlap and clip a bolt above to protect the mantle move.  Surmount the overlap and climb the slabby face to the top.

If you are climbing Deprived Direct, you may as well link it into Mikey's Mantle for a little more of a challenge. The route can be top roped from the Deprived Child anchors. The route can also be led, but be careful getting to the first bolt. The first bolt on Mikey's Mantle can be clipped before doing the mantle move, and then you could lower/down climb and start at the base of Deprived Direct.This route should only be done as crowds permit since Deprived Child & Mikey's Mantle are both popular routes. 

Tough, frictiony start is the crux, with some thin holds above first bolt.  Cruises in 9ish territory after the second bolt.  There is a traverse right at a ledge before the third bolt.

Work your way about halfway up the crack thru the shallow chimney. Then step left onto the face passing 2 bolts using your right hand on the side of the arete. Move up to the roof and clip another bolt. Pull the roof and move left to use the same anchor as Stars & Stripes

Start 6 feet right of Shock Treatment. Head straight up the 4 bolt line to the roof. Pull the roof to a bolted anchor. A fifth bolt protects the roof move. Crux is getting past the 1st bolt and the roof isn't a piece of cake either.

Climb crux slab to first bolt.  Move up then right towards left side of flake (5.3 R).  Straight up off flake follow the bolt to the ledge.  Pull ledge and use bolted anchors.  Double up the gear in the flake after the runout to prevent a zipper.

Has a few more moves than its neighbor to the left but isn't much more than a boulder problem. Once you clip the bolt, crimp and smear to make a desperate throw. It is not over yet tough. Keep it together for a few more, and you will be rewarded, or punished, with a mossy romp to the chains.

From the bottom of the descent gully, either scramble back up the gully or climb out onto the face. Either way work your way up to the 1st bolt. Clip the bolt and then make a series of delicate slab moves with poor feet using the obvious feature up and right of the bolt (crux). Stand up on the feature and plug in a piece of gear in the horizontal. Move past two more bolts to a small roof. Clip the bolt and stay left (harder) or move right (juggier) to get over the roof. Stand up and finish to the 2 bolt anchor on jugs. Be careful of the obvious flake feature under the roof as it will likely have pieces break off as this gets climbed more.

 Note: The FA started down and right of the gully and shares the first bolt with Stripes.

Start at the plate below the bolt. It's obviously possible to pre-clip the draw at about 30 feet by climbing the ramp of the regular route. As stated elsewhere, the low crux is harder in the heat.

Hard boulder problem start over a bulge (about V5 maybe) leads to easy slab climbing. I think it used to be easier before a hold broke

Watch the start of this route...as you start the route and make a couple of moves you are quickly high off the deck as the cliff drops down hill from the start of this route.  Smear and slab your way up past bolts and the occasional gear placement.  One of the good routes in the area.

Another one-move wonder at Currahee.  Has an interesting, well-protected move at the first bolt, then continues up through 5.8ish climbing.  Has a great view from the top.  I'm going with the rating in the latest (2005) Dixie Cragger's Atlas.  I have been told and seen elsewhere this route is a 10c, but the crux felt more like a 10.

A really nice line for the (slightly sandbagged) grade, with a spicy alternate start. 

  Move up and left on the slab to a gap in the overlap above.  Though it's fairly easy climbing, this start is runout with no pro until you reach a bolt below the overlap maybe 30' up.  Continue up on good friction following the bolted line to the top. 

  Direct start (5.10a):  Climb left of the regular start to join the route just below the first bolt.  No protection.

You say that the boulder problem start of Battle of the Bulge is too damn hard? You say that you always just cheat out to the right when you do this climb on TR? Well the bolt fairies have heard your cries!

 Start in the corner to the right of BotB and step up onto the ramp on the right. Clip the bolt. Traverse directly left using a jug that's a bit of a reach from the ramp. Once you are about midway between the two 2nd bolts, head up to the 3rd bolt on BotB and rejoin that route to the top.

 You can head directly from the 1st bolt to the 3rd bolt on BotB, but the moves are more like 5.9 and it's a bit awkward at the end to get to the 3rd bolt on BotB

Start at the same start as Winter Solstice. Instead of trending right after the 1st bolt, go straight up from the 1st bolt thru two more bolts. A small to mid range C4 in a horizontal protects the run out between the 3rd and 4th bolt. Then finish on the 2 bolt anchor for Shock Treatment (which is through the weakness in the roof to the left). There is a 5th bolt to protect the roof move.

Start at a high tree in the obvious gully between the Slab Area and the Buzzard Wall. Move left on the face to a bolt, climb thin slab holds past another bolt, and after pulling a reachy, thin crux, walk up the slab to the top anchors.

As the name implies, this is slab climbing.  The routes here are good training for some of the more serious granite friction climbing areas in North Carolina.

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