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Children Should Not Use Power Tools

5.10a, Sport, 40 ft (12 m),  Avg: 1.9 from 20 votes
FA: Dave Bridges & Mike Rigney, June 1990
California > San Bernardino… > Running Springs… > Keller Peak > (l) Children's… > Kindergarten Rock

Description

This is the middle of three bolted routes on the east side and climbs a narrow face between two crack systems.

The crux comes early on as you pass the first bolt via a somewhat awkward mantel (easier slightly right), after which it's fun climbing up plates and edges to the anchors.

Supposedly named by the first ascent party in response to the sport bolting of the nearby Hungover Wall, this was one of several early routes done that explored the possibilities of the Children's Forest area.

Protection

3 bolts, chain anchors

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Noelle Ladd working the crux.
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CHILDREN SHOULD NOT USE POWER TOOLS 10.A SPORT
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Noelle Ladd checking out the next moves after the crux.
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Isaac mid-crux on Children Should Not Use Power Tools (5.10a), Keller Peak
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Euan Cameron
Mammoth Lakes, CA
  5.10b
[Hide Comment] The climbing is fun, but it is soft for the grade Sep 13, 2007
[Hide Comment] Don't remember the name being a dig at the Hung Over Wall routes. Children's Forest, children with power tools maybe not a good idea. More of a dig at us we thought. Oh well, And we finished it in the dark. May have seemed a little harder then. Some folks who did it a couple days later thought it should have been 5.7! So we could have missed a few holds... Jul 12, 2020