PRINT: Rock Climbing in Rocket Slab, Foster Falls

11. Rocket Slab

Tennessee > Foster Falls

Access Issue: Daily online climbing registration required for TN State Park areas Details

Daily online climbing registration required for TN State Park areas. tnstateparks.com/activities…. This includes Cumberland Trail State Park (Deep Creek, Big Soddy, Buzzard Point, Laurel Falls, Dayton Pocket, Black Mountain and other areas within the park); South Cumberland State Park (Foster Falls and Denny Cove); Fall Creek Falls State Park; and Rocky Fork State Park Once you have registered, you will receive a confirmation email with your unique registration number, site rules, and other helpful info. Please keep the registration number with you while climbing. At some locations, you may be asked to leave a piece of paper with your registration number on your car dashboard. Groups of 10 or more, please call the park prior to filling out a registration.

Description

The Rocket Slab is home to Foster's easiest routes, where many new sport climbers get their first lead. It also features a handful of much harder routes.

Getting There

Just left of Sanford Wall.

Routes from Left to Right

5.10d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b 158 ● Rode Hard, Put Up Wet Sport
5.12b/c 7b+ 27 IX- 27 E6 6b 13 ● Launch Pad Sport
5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b 60 ● Witchy Woman Sport
5.5 4b 13 IV+ 11 MS 4a 228 ● Afterburner Sport
5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b 259 ● Gravity Boots Sport

● Rode Hard, Put Up Wet

158

5.10d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b Sport

● Launch Pad

5.12b/c 7b+ 27 IX- 27 E6 6b Sport

● Witchy Woman

5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b Sport

● Afterburner

228

5.5 4b 13 IV+ 11 MS 4a Sport

● Gravity Boots

259

5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b Sport

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Pulling the roof on Rode Hard; this route is not on the same wall as the rest of the Rocket Slab routes. Rather, it is set back about 50 ft to the left of the main wall.

Rocket Slab

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Max Walker
Saratoga Springs, NY

Continue down the trails from the base of the falls quite a long way, pass a sign on your right that says "Climbers Only" (that fork leads up to the base of Jimmywood. A ways past this there is an uphill that ends facing a shorter sections of rock with an obvious brown streak in the middle. This is the Rocket Slab and the brown streak is Afterburner. Apr 14, 2021