PRINT: Rock Climb Basic Training, West Idaho

Basic Training

5.10a, Trad, 50 ft (15 m),

Avg: 2.9 from 17 votes
FA: Cade Lloyd, Pete Takeda, Trent Smith ~1983
Idaho > W Idaho > Black Cliffs > Short Cliffs

Access Issue: 2024 Seasonal raptor closures: Scary Canyon, Face Canyon, Highway Face, Steep Wall, Far Side, and Nixon Head (updated 3/15/24) Details

Adding new bolts, new anchors, and new routes at the Black Cliffs are currently NOT ALLOWED pending a BLM environmental assessment. Significant trail work is also on hold. Please contact the Boise Climbers Alliance with questions or for additional information

Description

Start on easy climbing up the outside of the short pillar. Once on top of the pillar climb the crack in the dihedral to the anchors. The crack behind the pillar starts as tips and gradually widens to fingers and then small hands. It's a pity the crack doesn't start from the ground . . .

Location

Starts at the base of the short pillar 20 feet right of Bologna Pony

Protection

Several small cams and nuts to about .5"

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michalm

The anchor has been fitted with durable lower off Hardware’s courtesy of the American Safe Climbing Association (ASCA). To support work like this, please donate now safeclimbing.org/donate Nov 20, 2021