The Great Arch 

Awesome looking climb. Deffinatley do this climb when I get up that way.

I would climb this route every day for the rest of my life. Absolutely essential climb at this grade in the south east. Tons of fun, easy to protect and the view is great.

This is some classic climbing. When you look up layback in the dictionary, this is the climb. When you look up friction climbing, this is the climb.

Great climb; hardest part is getting to Tree Ledge. The walk off the back is LONG!

Great climb! When rappelling off this climb, you should go to a different route's anchors. Walking on the slab at the top from these anchors to another like No Alternative is super easy and doesn't require a belay, but you can use one just to be on the safe side.

The second time I got on this route I let my friend lead it since he really wanted to do the climb. Then I practiced doing nothing but face climbing. Great way to get used to nothing but friction climbing and get your head into it for leading something like Mercury's Lead, which is right next door and pretty much the exact same angle and friction.

Great climb for the grade. Did not realize that you had to climb a committing pitch to even get there though. Adds some more fun. I would say try to stay off the tree at the second belay as much as possible. looks like it gets a ton of wear and tear and that would not be a fun spot to have a dead tree.

Who Can say a bad thing about this climb?!! Classic Feature all the way up and it only gets better each and every time you do it, yes yes, climb it like six times in one winter and you will see what I mean!

A Stellar intro lead for the beginning trad climber and a wonderful moderate for the seasoned pro. Layback the firs two pitches and work your way up the slab/fingercrack on the third.

Be sure to wake up early for this classic because on crowded days this one can be a class A cluster Funk!

The park gates don't open until 8. So if you stay in the park, get there about 7:30 and haul ass up to the tree ledge. Unless a bunch of other people have that same idea, then you should be ok and not have a line behind you when you get to the first belay station. Awesome route!

If you rap STRAIGHT down from the top of the third pitch, you'll end up to the right of Mercury's lead; I forget what the name of that route is (Rainy Day Women maybe). This is the fastest way down, and it keeps you out of the way of traffic on the Arch. I think it's just one rap down to a set of anchors (2 60m ropes needed- barely makes it) and then one more rap from the lower anchors gets you to the tree ledge. I've never done the walk off and as long as there's not a party on that lesser used route, I'll always use that to descend from the Arch.

One of the most pleasurable climbs ever....medium to small gear with placements everywhere. We did plug one #3 Camalot at the top of the 3rd pitch. Decided not to rap and walked back to the base...figured we could do that faster than setting-up rappels. We were there one day after rain and the rock was mostly dry. The sun was out and temps in the 60's. Unbelievably, we had the whole mountain to ourselves. Truly a classic climb in a stellar setting.

This climb is over-rated and a pain in the back in my opinion. I have climbed it many times and seem to enjoy it less as a climb every time.

It is a beautiful architectural feature on a mostly blank slab though.

No Alternative is a better climb at this grade, IMHO.

Luckily though, it keeps all the Noobs busy and leaves many other routes open.

If you're looking to save time on a busy day, link pitches 1 and 2 from the tree ledge. You'll BARELY be able to do it with a 60 and it's no problem with a 70. Have your belayer step up!

1's and 2's on the first, mostly .75 and smaller on the second, which makes linking convenient.

Wow, what can I say that hasn't already been said. Well let's see. How about don't bother, tedious, monotonous, and how about back pain. Oh wait, Sully said that. Bending over to grab a corner at my feet for 3 or 400 continuous feet is not my definition of fun. This one makes it into the book of Classics only due to the fact that it is such a striking feature on the face. If your comfortable with harder stuff at Stone, this is one to skip. We had a much better time on Rice Crispies and Fleet Feet.

After numerous trips to Stone Mountain and many crowded weekends we finally had the entire place to ourselves and racked up for this state classic. For a brief moment I thought I was back in Yosemite (minus the very less than vertical grade), laying back a splitter corner for 100's of feet with an abundance of gear options. As far as gear is concerned, you only need a single rack up to three (although I never placed a #3; a #4 BD may help protect the first 25 ft or so), and C3's are really helpful. Also, bring a good set of buff calves and a good back!!