The climb begins on a pillar with a horn coming out of it. At the top of the pillar, traverse into the left facing corner or adjacent face for some real pleasure climbing  steep, but with great holds and pro. 

  Renamed April 2012 in memory of Adam Kopley, who   loved LSM, and this climb. Originally called Head First.

Kopley's Corner

Longhorn

Snow Easy Finish

The Shield Direct

The Shield

Climb directly up the pillar, the up the steep face to a little notch in the wall.

Climb pillar with horn coming of it.  Continue straight up to the blank face below an overhang.

Move up through easy ground to the inside corner with a smooth face to the right.  Follow the corner up, passing an old pin at about mid-height.  Make a few awkward moves to gain a stance below the roof and place some good gear.   

  Pull the roof (crux) using a thin rail, some finger-locks and a pinch on a block.  Small feet but it's all there.  Once you gain a stance above the roof, follow the corner directly above (don't go left...more rope drag) and finish up to the top. 

   Vincent Penoso: "I named this route because of the triangular rock at the crux that to me at the time looked like a shield. There were 2 ways to do this route. Once you got to the shield there was a place to place a cam straight up under the little roof with a double runner, but then there was a simple move to the left to a key hand hold that put me into the corner and I could move around that small corner and then continue up along the left side in a channel to the top.  

  The harder variation you have to place that cam with a double runner because of the rope drag otherwise, and you go straight up and over...I didn't lead this variation."

From PATC-MS guide: Next to the Longhorn pillar is a right facing dihedral topped with a roof that looks like a small medieval shield. Climb in the corner where there are good if awkward holds on the left, and precious little on the blank face to the climbers right. The crux for the normal variation is below the roof (pro in crack). Once at the roof, stem left and layback the flake on the left to gain the arête to the left of the route. Climb up 20 more feet to exit via a right sloping ledge. A harder variation (5.9+) involves climbing through the crack in the right of the roof.

- this area starts about 180 feet from 'reference tree'  

  - about 4 routes in this 'area'

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Routes in Bent Tree Area