An excellent outing for the grade, offering up some grade A overhanging enduro climbing. Really fun movement and great holds.

Uber Ass

Silver Surfer Suit

Roller Girls

Occam's Razor

Tree of Life

Straw Man

Evergreen Arete

The Third Power

Forbidden Fruit

Sandwiched between

Roller Girls

and

Uber Ass

, this route is very humbling. Start over relatively easy rock to a decent rest then roll right on through the crux to the chains. Hope you're in good bouldering shape!

A great, varied route that boils down to two short and wildly different sections.  Scramble up the ramp and hand crack to start things off.  It's relatively easy to get to the first bolt, but a .75 or 1 Camalot is very useful as a directional.  Once you've clipped the hard climbing begins.  A few thin, technical moves lead to the third bolt and a short undercling traverse left, setting you up for the money move - the dyno.  Stick the dyno, clip, then pull a couple long lock-offs to reach the easy slab finish past two more bolts.

Originally graded 5.13a, but I think better beta for the dyno has lowered the difficulties.

A short and bouldery route. Start pulling hard right off the ledge through some awesome beta and into a good layback. Unfortunately it is a bit sketchy to clip the second clip from this spot, so you may consider stick clipping the first two clips. The crux is right past this second bolt and once you are through it is a cruise to the chains.

Thuggy, steep, compression, and its not over until its over. Sequential climbing up ever more difficult moves in a thrilling position. Notoriously difficult to clip the chains until you are a little above them.

The extension to Roller Girls going up and left from the anchors. The difficulty comes from a boulder problem leaving the anchor, revolving around tension and compression on crimps capped by a deadpoint to a decent edge, followed by 5.12 climbing to the chains.

A fine route and one of the more moderate outings on the Cube, though still no cakewalk. Start on the East face as for Uber Ass, crank a few overhanging moves, then make a short traverse around the corner to the north face and continue up the right side of the technical and steep arete to the chains at the top of Uber Ass, or continue up the slab to anchors on adjacent climbs on the N face.

Alternate start mentioned in the book is to climb the N side direct, meeting the route at its 2nd bolt.

Bolt line that starts on the thin seam on the left side of the north face of the Cube.  First two bolts are the crux - techy!  Save some juice going to the fourth bolt as well, then just keep the pump at bay to the anchors.

Originally a mixed line, but subsequent breaks have made placing gear at the start much more difficult, thus two bolts were added.

A link up of Roller Girls and Straw Man. Climb Roller Girls through the crux to just below the chains then move out right to the beginning of the crux of Straw Man. Basically get nice and tired on Roller Girls and then go for the crux of Straw Man. Good luck!

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