Climb Little Agassiz Rock's arete closest to Big Agassiz Rock, if you don't know which direction is northwest. This is a classic, moderate problem. The crux is leaving the ground.

Northwest Arete

Unnamed Face Problem

The Vault

March of the Brown Creeper

Northwest Face

West Arete

White Veil Through The Mist

Driven to Perfection

The Other Northwest Arete

This is a lay down start to the right side of the classic face. It starts underneath the boulder on a flake, start with feet back in the cave somewhere, then pull out the lip. There is a hard mantle on tiny crimps right there at the bottom, and then you're into the stand start, which goes at about V8.

Stand start the lower angled face using finesse, balance, and technique to reach the slopey lip with your left hand, and then begin a sloper-mantle sequence.

The Vault is essentially a hanging sit start on the far left end face of Little Agassiz.Move up and left around the steep undercut arête eventually matching on a crimp bar. Power straight up the arête using a slopey sidepull, and make a high topout. It has great movement and exposure.

This is on a severely under-appreciated section at Agassiz, considering how much lichen grows on this problem! 

  Stand start on good, opposing sidepulls with bad feet just left of the Southwest Arete, and work your way left a couple steps (crux) until you get into the green streak in the center of the face where you'll find a fun pinch hold. Using a couple balancy mantles and underclings, head straight up for a relieving topout.  

  This has good movement, is technique intensive, is tall, and has an easy topout. This is a great problem to run laps on!

Highball the nice back face of Little Agassiz via several variations.  Likely the most obvious line starts in the center at a good flake/rail.  Make multiple high-step/long-reach moves to decent holds and top out trending vaguely left through a weakness and an easy top-out. 

  An obvious hold at mid-height is having some issues.  A good chunk broke under the strain of my Herculean crimp and what is left is in a state of flux.  Still it is a fun face climb.   

  To the right of this looks harder (and funner) and to the left looks easier.

Climb the less-than-vertical, rounded arete with thin slab features. The crux is at mid-height. There's more than one way to climb this one; the grade depends on which side of the arete you climb.

Sit start the left side of the Little Agassiz face pretty much directly at the spot which has some green lichen. Move straight up and slightly left on thin edges and crimps. Snag a left hand sloper at the lip, and traverse left to a high ball exit or top out straight above. It is the same rating either way.

Climb the more rounded arete 5 or so feet from the heavily featured arete.  There are several ways of doing it, but all involve nice, delicate face moves up less than vertical rock.   

  The grade is a generalization and line dependent.

At the high, clear, windswept hilltop you will see Little Agassiz rock first and foremost. It is a large, proud, sheer-sided boulder directly on your left as you crest the hill.    There are other boulders in the area. Some of them provide decent bouldering. Look around.

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Routes in Little Agassiz