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Brewery, The Rock Climbing

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	Class V Stout S 5.5 4b 13 IV+ 11 MS 4a
	Dirty Hippy S 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
	Golden Trout S 5.10c/d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b
	Isabella Blonde S 5.8+ 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	Just Outstanding! S 5.10c/d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b

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Elevation:	5,062 ft	1,543 m
GPS:	36.00883, -118.51928 Google Map · Climbing Area Map
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Description

The Brewery is a low angle slab on a dome like exposure on the Sentinel Ridge. It is the southeast exposure of the formation of which "Borrowed Boot Butress" is the southwest exposure. It lies midway on a line between Sentinel Peak and Elephant Knob.

The average angle is 50-55 degrees, the rock varies from featured to thin edges to classic friction on shiny slab. A fun low commitment venue with excellent rock, the climbing is similar to the leftside apron routes of Dome Rock, but without the runouts. The area to the left of Class V has a couple route possibilities but the angle is lower and the rock not that good. To either side of the center slab the rock quality is pretty bad. Sunny and warm, no way is this a summer place except maybe early in the morning. It has a nice prospect with great views of the Kern Canyon.

These routes were done in ground up fashion on a couple lovely days in the winter of 2014. The crag and route names are to honor the Kernville Brewery, our refuge after a harrowing day on the rock.

Getting There

To get there drive up the Kern Canyon on M-99 to Johnsondale. At the Tee intersection of Parker Pass Road, and Lloyd Meadows Road, turn right on the Lloyd Meadows Road (turn left for Parker Bluff, Dome Rock, and the Needles). This is the way for the normal, from below, approach to White Punks on Dope. A few miles in you will pass the Whitsett Camp and the T-Bar Ranch gates. Just after that you will be going under the impressive looking Sentinel Peak, looming high above, keep looking left and you will see the comparably insignificant Brewery come into view. Park on the north side of the road at the west end of the little bay, by the road sign.

From the parking, gain the east ridge of the bay and follow it to the right side of the rock, traverse left along the base to the middle area – 1/3 mile, 400 feet, moderate brush. Approaching directly from below is very difficult because of a narrow but gnarly line of dense brush.