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BETA PHOTO: Wooly Spider Boulder, Joshua Tree NP

Description 

This formation boasts a couple of easy fifth class lines on its north face, an ugly crack, and a very "crunchy" bolted face up its west shoulder. Its a great spot to take beginners, with a fifteen second approach from the car, a "real" summit (no walk off), and routes that can be done by just about anyone in any type of footwear. If there's nothing fixed on top, you can descend by downclimbing one of the 5.2s, or have someone on the ground tie-off one end of the rope on one side and rap off the other.

Getting There 

This boulder lies at the north end of the Stirrup Towers (the north-south ridge of formations on the left as you pull into the parking area). It is easily identified by the grovelly chimney/widecrack on the right side of its north face.

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Wooly Spider 5.4 R  CA : Joshua Tree National Park : ... : Wooly Spider Boulder

Start off a boulder directly below the right of two parallel cracks that split the top of the rock, and about 15' left of an ugly wide crack. Pull onto the rock via an incut bucket with smears for the feet and then climb a steep, unprotected slab on good rock into the right crack which is hand size. Belay/rap from coldshuts between the two cracks. Given 5.2 in guidebooks the moves seemed a bit harder than that on the neighboring Tarantula (5.2), but a little easier than Arachnids (5.5). Travers...[more]   Browse More Classics in CA

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Wooly Spider Boulder. Photo by Blitzo.