Big ole, clean slab, a little older than Fire and Sage II 5.8 to it’s right, and the same age as Prometheus Unchained II 5.9+ to it’s left. Four pitches with the crux right away on pitch 1. Then, mostly interesting, easier slab above, consult topo in photos.

High Plains Saga

The Overload

Lentil Scrutinizer

Fire and Sage

Marginal Error

Standard Route

Right of Standard Route is a featured slab with clean, solid rock exfoliations and slabs. An early, traditionally protected slab on Split Rocks Main SE Face. A great route to refine trad skills, route finding, adventuring. Once a very popular right of passage for NOLS Instructors.

Split Rock, South Face, right side slab. Right of Prometheus Unchained (5.10- G 4 pitches**) and left of Fire and Sage (5.9 G 5 pitches ***) Overload is the center of the purest slab, the last pitch water groove, black streak is an obvious feature. A trad slab with runouts. The X grade is on the 5.6 2nd pitch. The first and last crux pitches are R grade.

Lander Rock 2005 Collins/White has all the routes on Split Rock South Face

Similar to Joshua Tree’s mini-crack route, Central Scrutinizer, Lentil Scrutinizer is Split Rocks more obscure version. A tiny, savage, west facing crack rig, 150m north of the sage brush line in a gulley 150 m SE of the ‘Overload’ Slab.

This is a 5 pitch, user friendly, slab and face route on the felsic veined, Granite Face in the right side of Split Rock SE Face.

This route follows the crack to the base of the huge overhanging rock at the top of the cliff, at the OH go left. No harder than 5.5

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Routes in Split Rock