This is a 350 foot buttress that overlooks Chicken Point. Sun/shade varies though the afternoons are shady. You will most likely not encounter any other climbers here, though the incessant jeep tours below can be a bit annoying or entertaing... If you are there on a slow day, however, consider yourself lucky and enjoy the peace.
Getting There
Follow directions for the Religion wall past the watchtower. Stick close to the wall and you will encounter some fixed approach lines. Climb up to the limestone band and follow it around to the east between Minister and the Pulpit and the main wall. Once through the notch stick to the main wall and look for faint trail. A hairy move on the limestone band and some scrambling will put you at the base. Approach time- 45 min... It's pumpy.
Pitch 1: Start up slab to big hole in the rock. Small to medium cams and bolts take you to a two bolt belay. Pitch 2: Stem up box past bolts, make the "cross to the choss" move and then up the crack and into the Bat Cave to a two bolt belay. At the top, keep an eye out for the lone pocket... Set of doubles and bolts. Pitch 3: Stem out cave past bolt and up to a fingery layback/stem system. Look for moves leading left around a corner on edg...[more]
Yeah...the descent route has proved to be troublesome at times.... John Burcham said he had scoped a more direct descent/rappel line that we had always intended on establishing.... But don't let the possibility of a stuck rope deter you from these routes!!!
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