First two clips easily gained, then a difficult thing section crux to step climbing with better holds. And a final difficult section before the finish.

Vulgarian Pterodactyl

Welcome to the Bird

Wrecking Ball

Batman

Groovin'

Hinterland (second anchors)

Twisted Sister

Opposing Gravity/the Streak (1st pitch)

The Space Between

Hinterland (first pitch)

Laid Back and Well Hung

Alpine Line (first pitch)

The Streak (second anchors)

Flippin Gravity (The Big Dumb Link-up)

Romania

Opposing Gravity/King Solomon

Flippin' the Bird

Two Screws

Broken Bit

One of the last routes at the big wall between Hinterland and Alpine Line. Starts on left facing ramp and follows the dihedral up towards the first anchors.  Follow the pocket and prow up and slightly right to the second set of anchors.  Careful as holds continue to break between the prow and the anchors.

Start off the ledge 6 feet up and launch right into the boulder problem crux of the route, which involves moving right on small holds and then  up past the 2nd bolt to two small crimps.  The boulder problem culminates with a deadpoint up to a good flat hold at the 3rd bolt.  Big reaches to sloping holds deposit you at a wobbly jug for a good shake and a high reach to clip the 4th bolt.  Move left and pull a cool roll over move and continue up on small sloping crimps past 2 more bolts.  A second crux near the top involves pulling an the remnants of a bolted on flake and small sidepulls.  Moving up to the jugs on Hinterland is the last bit of this route and the difficulty backs off, its a bit run out when you are clipping the anchors but the fall is clean and the climbing is easy at this point.

Move right at the fourth bolt. Then climb the off width to gain ledge. Next a boulder sequence, into a difficult roof.

Great climb, well bolted. Anchors were recently replaced. Nice line.

Angles up and right to a good rest below a short, left-facing corner.  Clip the bolt on the face left of the corner, not the old one on the right side of it.  Technical crux is getting up this corner to the good holds above (and a bolt near the top of the corner). 

  From there head out right on good hands.  Head up before working back left near the top.  The upper section has good holds and fun moves - don't get pumped out before the anchors. 

  I found the anchors tricky to clip, but maybe I'm missing something or was just too pumped.

Climb the past the fist set of anchors past 4 bolts, the crux is above the 2nd bolt, with some slight leftward traversing moves with bad feet.  The final move of the crux requires getting a high foot while holding a bad pinch and an OK sidepull.

Between Laid Back & Groovin. Up thin crack to roof. Traverse right out roof to anchors. Sustained.

The Streak (whose first pitch is the same as Opposing Gravity's) is an apt description of this butt stain of a route. The holds are large. Follow up the right angling ramp onto the face. Careful for loose rock on the ramp (even still in 2010).

Start in a right facing dirty, short corner and move up the jugs past 2 bolts to a good stance.  Move up for 3 or 4 moves on Batman to gain the 3rd bolt on the right.  Move up and right on thin holds and a technical sequences (crux) past 4 bolts to a good incut flake for a good rest.  Continue up past 1 more bolt on positive holds to the anchor.

This is the first pitch. There's a rap station 1/2 way up the wall before things turn steep. Two Cruxes and continuous climbing make this a fun pitch.  There are a few glued on holds, notably the jug at the 3rd clip which also features a big X.

Hard climb up to the thrid bolt, after that it's sustained but it's big holds.

More loose rock than your favorite Alpine Route. Belayers beware!

Climb "Flippin the Bird" into "Opposing Gravity", instead of clipping the anchor on flippin, clip the bolt on "Welcome" to the right, pull the redpoint crux of that, and continue to the first anchor of "Hinterland", get a good rest on the flake above, and head to the first fixed draw of "Opposing"

A good portion of this route fell down recently, and is no longer climbable until new bolts are placed.

at the chain on The Streak either bust left traversing on the ledge towards Hinterland and go up to a very interesting roof encounter, or continue up the refrigerator block and head left immediately afterwords. Going left seems to be a bit harder, but continuing up the streak seems to be the most popular. from there work your way up some powerful reaches on crimps and side pulls. Avoid going to far right and using holds on the streak to skip the crux. This is definitely the best route on the wall and deserves more attention. The first ascent history is a little murky and it seems there are two accounts. It sat untouched for quite a long time with its original bolts and some manky fixed draws,but it was rebolted in the winter of 2014 and now has nice steel fixed draws. Since its revival its seen quite a few repeats, including a flash by Vasya Vorotnikov.

Easy climbing diagonaling left leads up to powerful moves up two underclings with terrible feet to more powerful/long moves climbing on drilled pockets above.  The last bolt is a little spaced below the anchors but it shouldn't be a big deal as the falls are clean.

Powerful movement from start to finish. The entire climb is hard, but the crux is probably moving through the sharp edges guarding the chains.  

  It is possible to link this route up with Hinterland? for a much longer climb.

Two Screws is a somewhat funky and worthwhile variation to Groovin'.

 Climb past the first four bolts and technical crux of Groovin' to a no hands stance.  Continue straight up the corner passing two more bolts to the Twisted Sister anchor.  The crux is the sequence passing the last bolt to the anchor.  There is some less challenging, but non-trivial climbing to get there.

The Big Wall of Birdsboro Quarry.  

  A 60m rope will do fine with the lower offs here. It's not really two pitches... it's just got first anchors and second anchors.

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