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Caverns, The 
Commitment 
Fire Fly 
Hanging Teeth 
Jughead 
Munginella 
Selaginella 
Surprise, The 
Try Again Ledge 
Werner's Ant Trees 
Work Around the Skirt 

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Description 

This very popular area offers several good routes.
Can be quite crowded.
Watch out for rockfall.


Getting There 

Take the Lower Yosemite Falls trail to just before the bridge. Follow a trail to the left.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Five Open Books:
Munginella   5.6     Trad   
The Caverns   5.8     Trad, 4 pitches, 400 feet   
Selaginella   5.8     Trad, 4 pitches, 560 feet   
Commitment   5.9     Trad   
The Surprise   5.10a     Trad, 3 pitches, 400 feet   
Work Around the Skirt   5.10c     Sport, 1 pitch, 110 feet   
Werner's Ant Trees   5.10c     Trad, 1 pitch, 75 feet   
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Featured Route For Five Open Books
Looking up at the Werner's Ant Trees start, taken from the ground directly below the route.

The Surprise 5.10a  CA : Yosemite National Park : ... : Five Open Books
While not quite as classic as neighboring climbs like Munginella and Commitment, The Surprise provides 2 excellent pitches of climbing. Supertopo lists the route as 5 pitches, but it is very easy and recommended to link pitches 1 and 2 into a single 150' pitch. Start at an ant-infested tree and climb dirty corner past a small pine tree. Continue up to an oak tree (long sling helps reduce rope drag), and start traversing right along broken ledge system, passing one ancient 1/4" bolt abou...[more]   Browse More Classics in CA


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Five Open Books (photo stolen from Mike Morley - Thanks Mike!). Topo shows the classic The Caverns (5.8) to Selaginella (5.8). Eight pitches of 5.8 featuring liebacks, face climbing, off-width, finger cracks, & hand cracks. Pretty much everything you got!

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