Green Jello ascends the arete of the Green Monster Slab for its entire length. The first pitch runs about 5.7 and takes you up the majority of the route to a set of double chain anchors. Stay out on the face to the right if you want to keep things challenging, or climb the ledges on the left to simplify things for a bit. Either way you will be forced out onto the face on the second pitch for the crux, delicate balance, 5.9 moves.
This route may be done as a single pitch.
Descent: Either do a single (60m) rope rap to the base of the Green Monster route or walk off to the south.
Protection
Well protected bolt route.
P1 8 bolts and ring anchors. P2 3 bolts and chain anchors. There is also a fixed pin that isn't really worth clipping since it is close to a bolt.
Location
Hike the Rock Canyon main trail to the gully just before The Kitchen. Scramble up the gully to the south past the Bolt Slab to the base of the Green Monster Slab. Do not ascend the Class 4 to the base of the Green Monster crack. Look for the bolt line on the arete of the Green Monster Slab.
The bummer is that the upper face has bolts right by the Green Monster Aid Crack. How easy would it have been to leave this classic gear climb undisturbed by bolts? That crack up there just EATS up gear (like a great piece every 3-4 feet) and is maybe 5.9 by then.
Jim Knight established Green Jello about 8 years ago. He also did the first free ascent of Green Monster Aid Crack in the 1970's. If you're the Rock Canyon historian you say that you are, you would realize that there is only one new route on this "classic" formation since 1985. I've climbed over 350 routes in Rock Canyon and I think it's a great new addition to this formation, put up by one of the original Utah bad asses. What I find interesting is how much complaining there is on this website about new routes and as far as the Provo Crew waking up, the next time you're in American Fork, Maple Canyon, Triassic, Joe's Valley, Santaquin Canyon, Rock Canyon or The San Rafael Swell maybe you should wake up while you're enjoying the nice trails, routes and boulders established by "The Provo Crew." And as far as squeeze jobs are concerned, take a look at Green Adjective, The Schoolroom Buttress, Crescent Crack Buttress and just about every other crag in Little Cottonwood is just as squeezed as AF or Rock Canyon. All the routes that I've climbed at these cliffs have added to my life. I've seen Jim at every single Rock Canyon Repair Day in over 20 years rallying climbers, making posters, paying for repairs out of his own pocket; and I've never heard him bad mouth a single climb at any canyon. You're only in your 30's and he's helped create your stomping grounds in Rock Canyon and LCC since the early 70's. I also would give Green Jello four stars on this website, I think it's an extremely fun route.
Not a squeeze but rather a beautiful natural line up a prominent feature of the wall. surprised it wasn't bolted sooner. Its not very often that I climb a route of that grade but this is an exception.
Green Monster Slab
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