small, and not recommended as a destination to only do this. not at all.   But if you live nearby, or if your camping here and want to bring the gear then by all means give it a go! its fun and its an easy wall, so if your a beginner or want to teach someone to climb, this is a great place to do so!

Boy Scout Top-Rope Wall

Merit Badge Face

Boyscout TR Wall Highball

Scouts Honor

Eagle Scout Traverse

Merit Badge Arete

Start to the left of "BSTRW Highball" in the biggest pocket you will find low on the wall. "BSTRW Highball" starts at the base of the prominent diagonal line of slopey pockets, this one is the massive pocket 7 or 8 feet left. 

  Once started, climb direct and up to intersect with the top out of BSTRW Highball about 18ft up. 

To the right of Merit Badge Arete. This is easier and a bit shorter but still tall and fun. 

  Start 10ft right of the arete between the two close Rhodos. Climb straight up to an easy scramble over top out.

This is the standard Boyscout Top Rope Wall. It is bolted and pretty tall and aesthetic but there is a "death landing" at the bottom.

 The first wo ascents of the "BSTRW" were in 2011: -Matt Morganton was the first climber to scale this wall. He made it up near the top where he blow off a hold and fell. His left foot decked out on the 3foot ledge at the base of the wall and he crashed to the ground on his back. He took a break and afterward,with a swollen ankle and bloodied back, he climbed the wall in its entirety. -Then not long afterward Matt 'Mokolai' Bielejeski took a turn at it and also climbed the face.

 although the route/problem is fully featured and just slightly slabbed, it is highly recommended NOT TO BE CLIMBED due to the fact that the holds are weathered and smooth, and lets not forget the landing. At the bottom is a 3 ft high, 3 ft wide ledge positioned perfectly to deck out on.

 good luck.

Stand start on the far right side of the BSTRW on a high jug with ledgy feet to hop up on. move left, staying up off the deck but traversing low. Move through slopy pockets, tiny edges, big reaches, and fun moves. follow the wall all the way left to top out easy, but high off the deck. the end is really a scramble up, but you still wouldnt want to blow it!

Once at the BSTRW, walk close to the wall and to the right. This is the blunt, tall arête at the far right of the face. Stand start close the the rhodo tree to the right of the arête. 

  Scale the easy but thrilling arête to the lofty top. Easy moves, exposure, and big holds give way to a view and landscape that make you stop in your tracks. 

Fun and easy with a rope, scary as all hell without. Don't fall. Vultures circle the top of this wall in hopes some pad carrying pebble puller makes a bad, bad, very bad move. 

  -Remember, if you fall, you will likely die. If you don't die, you will likely wish you would've since; 

  A: you probably don't have cell service (and wouldn't have use of your arms to reach it anyway) 

  B: there isn't that great of a chance that someone will just "happen by" 

  C: Your spotter probably won't know how to care for your level of extreme injury unless of course you happen to be climbing buddys with a paramedic, ER doctor, or combat medic... 

  D: It honestly takes 45 minutes once in an ambulance to reach a hospital from GHSP.... and that's after the "hike" out of the Highlands area 

  E: you can't use the ponies to strap people onto to use as a stretcher, no matter how fun it may be. 

  -the bottom line is, if you're going to highball/solo this... be freaking careful.

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