Woger's Woof Wightside is a very tough face climb over the sizeable roof halfway up the wall. To start, either climb up the lower half of Roger's Roof (the rib to the right of the alcove) or climb up out of the alcove itself. Once up to the overhang position yourself to the right of the handcrack in Roger's Roof. Use small fingerholds to pull yourself up past the roof. Continue to the top with challenging face moves.
This is a tough face. I pulled myself over the roof without using the crack and staying about 2-3 feet to the right of it (not using the right corner either). The face just spit me out and I could not see the moves.
I imagine it will repel many others. Maybe I can get some beta on how to do it.
By Isaac Therneau From: Rochester, MN Aug 3, 2008 rating: 5.11c R
To climb this, where does the line go exactly? The most natural line heads straight up the bottom face while occasionally grabbing for the large right hand arete. Going through the roof involved using the arete and left hand side-pulls. The face directly through the roof and above without using the right hand arete or being able to reach Rogers Roof crack seemed more 5.12 to me than 11 and felt contrived.
I just tr'd this thing one afternoon a while ago, so I don't remember it too well, but I am pretty sure I avoided the arete the whole way - yeah it is contrived, but it's the Lake. Made for some funky and kinda hard climbing down low, and then getting over the roof/establishing above proved challenging, but I think it was more a balance and finding the holds issue. I meant to go back and lead it, but moved away shortly thereafter.
By Isaac Therneau From: Rochester, MN Aug 4, 2008 rating: 5.11c R
Did you feel the grade was appropriate for 5.11c? The roof seemed extremely difficult to do in this manner. It's hard to tell with the picture of the female climbing since she is farther to the right than I went. Does anyone know how the original line was meant to be climbed? The way I went felt 5.11 with two very different cruxes. The first was pulling the roof and the second was even harder and involved a complete balance/imagine you can walk up bumps on the rock kinda crux. The second crux felt 5.11c to me, while the first was 5.11.
Hey Isaac, it's been a while so I'm not really sure how much help I can be, but I think I remember on my first try the thing felt pretty hard and cryptic for the grade. But then second go everything went fine and it felt right on, so I don't know, 11c seemed fair enough. Surely there are some others out there with a better memory of this route than me. Good luck.
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