This is a sharp and dynamic roof climb that has seen very few ascents. Grab a sharp crimp in the roof and huck blindly over the lip. It is very committing.

Back to Baltimore

The Castle in the Swamp

Y2K9

Easy Street

Chalking the Ham

Seams to Me

Classic

The Show

Wrestling the Goat

Swisher Sweets

Easy Traverse

Wrestling the Goat (not a traverse)

Y2K9 ascends an amazing, featured roof featuring small, incut crimps. 

  Start below the roof, and do a big move to a large flake. Follow the flake until you reach the lip. A very hard lip encounter is the crux. From here, do a very high topout, and feel free to grab the tree at the top.

This is a dirty and reachy V6 that would clean up nicely. 

  Start below the mini-roof, and do a long reach up to crimps. Continue through easier but dirtier climbing and top out.

This is a terrifying highball with slightly loose rock. Climb the easy inside corner being careful of what you pull on.

Chalking the Ham is a rightward traverse below the Y2K roof. Start on a right-facing jug below the lower, ground-level roof, and traverse right, making big moves of great holds until you can get established below the tight dihedral. I don't know exactly what hold marks the end of the traverse, but a reasonable end is to get your hands established on a hold not under the roof.

 The guidebook called this V4, but it seemed a little soft to me, perhaps because I'm a sport climber used to longer climbs on good holds.

Climb the obvious, left-trending crack (not a seam) to the top. Stand start.

Start on a large, flat jug on the left side of the huge roof. Climb up the bulge on more jugs, and top out.

Start by scrambling onto the chossy ledge directly left of Y2K9. Reach up into the roof and grab a decent jug/slot. From here, dyno to a thin and scary looking jug just over the lip. Here is the crux, figure out how to match the lip without falling head first onto the bad landing below. Once matched, traverse left into the end of the V1.

A fun traverse on blocky holds leads to a scary topout. Alternatively continue all the way to Easy Street (Silos, V6).

Start on sharp crimps, and do awkward moves to navigate the mini-roof. It is a little dirty right now but would definitely make for a great climb with a little more traffic.

Traverse left underneath Easy Street across a plethora of jugs and crimps towards a slightly overhung section. Pull over the lip, and walk off.This is a great problem to train endurance, practice your traversing, or just warm up in a low commitment setting.

According to Rakkup, this is Wrestling the Goat, not the other route on Mountain Project with that name.

 Start on the block/arete under the roof with the chossy flakes on top. Pull the roof, and either top out (scary high) or drop off once you get established standing above the lip of the roof.

 The guidebook says V5, but it seemed soft to me. I was tall enough to reach the key holds while keeping a hand jam or heel-toe cam in the starting chossy flakes, which made it much easier for me.

This impressive cliff band holds a large and featured roof as well as tiered roofs to the left.  It offers some shelter from extreme weather conditions; however, the topouts get the same exposure as anything else. It has mostly solid rock, but be careful of any flake you pull on.

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Routes in Left Cliff Band (Y2K9 roof)