PRINT: Rock Climb Swallow, West Idaho

Swallow

5.10b, Trad, 70 ft (21 m),

Avg: 2.5 from 15 votes
FA: unknown
Idaho > W Idaho > Black Cliffs > Mid Cliffs

Access Issue: 2026 Seasonal raptor closures, 2/28/26 update: Scary Canyon, Wailing Wall, Iron Man traverse, Face Canyon, back of Carbody Canyon (Excalibur to Hershey Squirt), and Highway Face are all closed. 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 as for Wizard's Sleeve, clipping 3 bolts up the stembox. Instead of moving left at the roof, place gear and pull the roof directly. Finish at the Kip to a Handstand anchors.

This route was originally a top rope route, but became a safe mixed lead with the addition of the Wizard's Sleeve bolts.

Protection

5 bolts to chains

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Swallow follows Wizard's Sleeve until the roof, where it continues up the crack on the right to the Kip to a Handstand anchors.

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Juan Pablo
Boise

5.10b

This is a stemming route that gets your feet about as wide as they'll go. You don't use much arms except for the small roof at the end. Apr 27, 2016

Matthew Ball

5.10b

Can not agree with Juan Pablo more. Went there with him and crushed my first 5 10b on site!! Jul 22, 2016

Trevor
La Grande, OR

Zach, this route is called Wizard's Sleeve. I've already got it posted on MP. They're the same line for all but the last few feet; it basically just got renamed when the lead bolts and anchor appeared. Apr 2, 2017

Justin Dewitt

5.10-

So I liked the route quite a lot- but I really don't enjoy the lower. Huge amount of rope drag as the anchors are tucked such that the rope rubs right on a relatively sharp edge. To make it sketchier, both strands want to slip into the crack thats just to the high left of the ceiling and it literally can get stuck in there. Not a fun lowering experience. Loved the climb tho- next time I might climb up, pull the rope and rappel off a nearby anchor to the ground. Apr 24, 2025