Bouldery start leads to a easier climbing until the sustained crux that consists of wild bear hugging moves full of desperation.  Super clean and brilliant moves - if you can make them.

Serology Test

Piton Crack Left

Steep Flake

Calling Spirit

Anniversary Arete

Corona Crack

Cabin Fever

Stembox of the (High) Desert

Finger crack of the (high) desert

Supercrack of the (high) Desert

Hand Jam

Contact Tracing

Unknown crack

Piton Crack Right

Quarantined with Spirit

Birthday Bulge

The Dihedral

No name

3 In One

Under Protest

Mandatory  Blockdown

Start on steep thin fingerlocks and pull into a flaring OW slot (crux). Continue jamming and stemming up a widening crack from 0.75s to perfect hands at the top.

Bouldery, powerful start on good edges leads to a large ledge with a loose boulder. Continue up past a fixed pin to a painful ringlock/rattly finger crack. Pull through a small bulge with smeary feet (crux). Finish on slightly easier ground.

Start with a dirty scramble up to the base of the flake/crack, move up the flake on good holds and some jams. Reach out on the face pull some moves, mantle and slab to the top.

Fun bulge pull for the direct start (V1), then a short dihedral (V2) leads to a few technical thin face moves (V3) on final headwall.  Essentially three boulder problems in one climb.

This short but fun route is powerful and challenging. The bolts are nicely placed so that you are always clipping off of something positive. The route has three distinct boulder problem like cruxes that are super fun and unique. 

Start 6' up on a flat pedestal (belay here). Climb past 2 hollow but wedged flakes up to the roof, plug in some good gear, and either jam or lie back past the mini roof. Crux moves are short, and give way to good hands, followed by fists to the top. Will definitely turn into a good route with more ascents. Bolted anchor. 

Delicate balance moves lead to a killer jug on the arete and some sweet edge climbing up to a big ledge before a final short headwall.  Probably 11- for shorter folks.  Stick clip the first bolt if you are not solid at the grade.

Cool stemming and finger locks with and interesting physical finish.  Good pro all the way, will get better and cleaner with more ascents.  Chains at top.

Bomber fingers and some great face holds thrown in for fun. Finger cracks don't get much better than this...if only it was 200' longer.  DBA at top ledge.  East to get to for TR, can sling tree if necessary to help rig.  

Super pleasant jamming up a low angle crack that starts as fists and turns to perfect hands. Route has great gear, mostly #4,#3, #2 camalots with a smaller piece for top.  

Short crack start then moves onto narrow arete for an amazing and sustained climb.  Sequential, tenuous and physical moves get you to the top.  

I don't know the history of this climb.  I just thought I would add it as a separate climb from Hand crack.  It climbs the obvious crack left of hand crack.  The crack is often too wide for jams or fist but there are other features inside the crack or on the face.  Worth doing if you are here!

Start as for the previous route, but cut right at the fixed pin and into a tips crack that gradually widens to hands at the anchors.

Slab start to a fun sequence out to the arete.  Feels a letter grade harder for the onsight.  Well protected and easy to top rope.

Climb the broken face/arete to the right of Corona Crack.  The fractured angled blocks at the start give way to a steep arete with great side pulls leading to a big move at the 4th bolt.  

Fun obvious clean corner toward left side of crag.  Will get better with some more traffic.  Easy gear and good stemming and finger locks.  DBA on top of the pillar

This is an old top rope route that is now retro-bolted. follow balancy jugs past the first two bolts, then use the double arete and some thin feet to make your way to the top. crux is towards the top with great clipping position. 

Three distinct sections; a little OW, a friendly hand crack, and a layback flake. A stiff little crux getting into the hand crack keeps it exciting. 

Starts directly up the arete to a great undercling at the small roof. A small stance is available after turning the roof.  A tricky sequence (crux) leads to a ledge and a more moderate top face.  Well protected.  The chains are hard to get to for TR, so a safety bolt was added under a bush to aid in getting over the edge to the anchors.

Blocky climb with big ledges to an airy final sequence over the bulging arete.  Two great rests.  Maybe a letter grade easier if you move left to the crack/corner and then back to arete at the final bolt.  Definitely a letter grade harder if you are short.  The route was put up pulling straight over the bulge.  The crux is well protected.

A small but worthwhile climbing area to check out, situated near Tumalo creek, it sits under power lines and is fairly secluded. Most of the routes have bolted anchors at the top and can either be top-roped or led with trad gear.  Many of the previous "top-rope only" face climbs have recently been bolted, as well as 4 new sport lines, so there is a pretty equal mix of trad lines and sport now.  There is a walk around to get to the top.

 Power Lines boast some awesome crack climbing that is all relatively protected with a double rack.  The cracks range from 5.8-5.11ish. The sport routes are sequential and often feel harder than the grade to onsight, but they are well protected at the cruxes for the most part.  The sport routes are primarily upper .10 to upper .11. This is a great place for an after work session.  The cracks stay moist for a bit after rains, but many of the aretes dry out quickly. Mostly High quality climbing condensed into some short 45' routes.

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