The Cholula Bottle

This route starts by scaling a pillar of rock that is shaped and coloured like a bottle of Cholula hot sauce. It then charges straight up a clean, steep slab to the summit ridge of the Earthship. The two pitches could not be more different.

Pitch 1 (5.9, 110 feet): Climb the right-facing corner on the right side of the Cholula Bottle. Four bolts protect stemming down low, then gear takes you up through a mudcrack and into a funky crux bulge. Near the top, a bolt protects a slab move. Boulder onto the bottle-cap, take a seat, and belay from the two-bolt chain anchor.

Pitch 2 (5.10c, 100 feet): Climb the clean, steep slab past 11 bolts to a two-bolt chain anchor on the summit ridge.

Scramble 20 feet up easy ledges to the scenic panorama. You might continue north along the ridge to the summit with a 3rd class scramble and one short 5.8 pitch. If so, you can rappel Maiden Voyage.

Descent: Rappel the route with one 70m rope or two 60m ropes.

Cholula Bottle tower on the east face of the Earthship, about 200 yards left (south) of Maiden Voyage.

Single set cams to 4"
11 quickdraws
one 70m rope or two 60m ropes