The Main Wall  Photos:  Recent | Best | Popular Lat, Long:  44.0358, -71.3996 Map Page Views:  13,392. Good page? (2 likes)    Administrators:  Jay Knower, M Sprague, lee hansche, Tom Erickson Submitted By:  M Sprague on May 7, 2010 Make this area a Favorite What's New   Print a Mini-Guide with routes Add Route  Add Photo  Add Comment  Add Event

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The Main Wall of Green’s is an impressive band of rock running a little over 1/3 of a mile wide and mostly about 250 feet tall. It offers a bounty of climbing of various styles, with some superb cracks, face climbing, steep slab and flake systems.

The usual approach will drop you off about in the middle of the cliff, with the classic 2 pitch finger and hands crack Greenpeace just to your right. Heading to the left, in about 100 feet, you will get to the start of The Great Arch, a huge left arching overlap that has yet to see an ascent. Below this arch are a couple one pitch routes with more potential. Black Flies Consume Jim Dunn ascends the steep slab to the terminus of the arch, with wild unclimbed terrain above. Continuing to the left , there is more unclimbed territory; steep one or two pitches of flake systems approached by a pitch of steep slab. At this point, to get to the upper left side of the cliff, look for a cairn signaling to step away from the cliff and follow a trail around and up, or continue along the cliff to get to the base of Green Party. It starts up a short bit of slab to get to the left end of the low tree ledge, then works it’s way up to the enticing looking second pitch left leaning stair step flake. Just to the left is a left angling flake that would make a sweet one pitch easy trad route, with a potential hard face climb above. The cliff then gets very blank and steep until you get over to the Blurry Eyes area.

Taking the short trail from the cairn steeply uphill along a short wall(across the hillside will take you to the Alcove)will bring you around and back to the cliff at the cluster of routes near Blurry Eyes and avoid a scramble and eroding thin soil on a slab. As you re-approach the cliff, on your right you will see a steep two pitch bolted line (project) and in front of you the bolted slab start of I’m Still Here, leading to a headwall and the hidden pitch above. Just to it’s left, is an orange right facing corner capped by a roof. The starts of Blurry Eyes and Remember Me are just past the corner.

To get to the top of the left side of the cliff and above the Alcove, continue following the goat path up the narrowing band of trees, with a big slab below you and the diminishing Main Wall above.

Going right from the original approach trail, just past Greenpeace, you will see the sweet looking Ginsu Flake, with a few well spaced bolts beside it, then in about 50 feet, past a couple jumbled and vegetated corners, you will see the obvious and delicious looking hand crack in a corner, Stewart’s Crack.

Continuing past Stewart’s Crack, before you get to the big roofs, is a section of the cliff where the first half is fairly blank steep slab. Above, on steeper rock, are many attractive features, but, so far, the slab has only been cracked by David Powers’ Moldy Bolts, a 12a ground up bolted line that follows a thin seam to a ledge. I caught a knucklehead starting to chip holds at the base of the slab. Hopefully he won’t be returning unless he has mended his ways. Please, there is no reason to force a line like that at Green’s. Just up your slab skills. The slabs will go, just at a fairly high level (and high quality).

Continuing on to the right, you will get to a section of huge roofs. Unfortunately, a lot of it is lacking in holds, so, to my eye, it looks like only a few places may offer a way to pierce through. This section is very worthy of more top down exploration. Under the far right side of the roofs , up on a ledge is an old fire ring, a great place to cook and bivy as you are protected by the elements and the view in the morning as the sun comes up is spectacular. If you bivy here, please keep the place nice, and be very careful if you have a fire to keep it under control so no embers fly out and land below. Remember to hang you food well or at least stash it inside your pots or the mice will get into it. Also, don’t just piss off the ledge. It is protected from rain and would get nasty smelling in no time. Go out further. There are a handfull of single bivy spots that just require a pad or two that are protected from all but the worst storm. For tenting there is one fairly flat spot for a small tent up on the boulders, otherwise you will have to go out from the cliff to find a bigger flat spot. Try along the way to the Eastern Crags or maybe up by Blurry Eyes and go no trace.

To get over to the last bit of cliff and the way over to The North East Crags drop down about 10 feet directly below the fire ring, then through a little notch and cut left.

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I'm Still Here 5.10+  NH : Green's Cliff : The Main Wall

Fun varied climbing on 2 pitches, with a great view. The first pitch starts about 25 feet right of a large yellowish brown , right facing corner with a roof. Step off the bent birch tree on to an easy slab and mantle up onto an angling rail to clip the first bolt (spot or stick clip) Continue up and left past 2 more bolts to a thin crux on a headwall (foot sequence) that gets you to the bottom right side of the "mattress" flake. Plug a cam under it and layback up the right side until you can plu...[more]   Browse More Classics in NH

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BETA PHOTO: Green's - The Main Wall, viewed from the top of Ow...	BETA PHOTO: Overhangs on the right hand end of the Main Wall. ...	BETA PHOTO: Arch right of Black Flies. This feature connects i...
Preisendorfer's Topo #2 from the IME New Rou...	Preisendorfer's Topo #3 from the IME New Rou...	The Main Wall overhangs lit up by early morning li...
Section of the Main Wall at Green's Cliff	3 pitch unclimbed terrain between Black Flies and ...	Don't even look at the second pitch hanging corner...
Seconding the second pitch of I'm Still Here, a gr...	These were everywhere along the base of the cliff....