A long route with a relatively short but cryptic crux and some of the best moves at the Dome. If you can onsight this you can onsight any 12a in Bolton.Climb through the first 3 bolts of Lichenology (P2) but continue straight up to a fun slab. Reach a stance below the headwall and try to decipher the crux as you chalk up. Fun layback moves lead to a sequence that will put your beta-cracking skills to the test. Hang on to gain the infamous thumbdercling to undercling combo and a short exit boulder to reach the anchor!

Fire in the Hole

Winston Churchill

Before the Dawn

Joint Warfare

Air Force One

Damn it Feels Good

Tripe Stripe

Two Times Infinity

Phenomenology

Climb out an alcove of wet rock between two small oak trees at the base of the Dometop wall. The first half of the route offers nice easy 5.10 climbing to interesting, bouldery moves out a prominent bulge into an intermittent crack. Follow more thin face climbing up to a rest on the "Churchill" hold below the final bolt. Belly roll mantle onto a nice schist ledge and continue up a fee more feet to a 2-bolt ring anchor.

An undisputed classic of the Dome. If you like liebacking, give this corner a try. Work up an eas(ier) slab to a stance below the corner. Get your sticky shoes on and work up a consistently powerful corner until it transitions to crimps. One final redpoint crux through an overlap guards the anchor.

Climb past 5 bolts of easy 5.8 terrain to a prominent ledge midway up the face.  Clip a high bolt off the ledge and then move up into the crux sequence climbing past 3 bolts on the way to a good rest out left shared with the finishing moves of Winston Churchill.  Move back right onto featured slab climbing past a final bolt to a ring anchor on the huge ledge at the top of the Dometop face.  The bottom of this route and the route to the right make for short but enjoyable moderate (5.8) leads up to the prominent ledge.  Once on the ledge, you can exit right to a ledge that has a walkoff off the backside.  

One of the best routes I've done in Bolton. Varied movement that builds to an awesome crescendo.Protect the initial moves to reach the first bolt. Continue up the bolted slab up to a steep corner. Climb the overhanging corner (easier than it looks) to a powerful sequence to exit the corner. Clip only the first bolt of Damn it Feels Good before heading up and left to an excellent horizontal crack.  Place gear and fire up the flaring finger seam to a final traverse left with a fierce boulder problem to gain the hand crack to the left.If you blow it at the crux the fall is big but completely into air. Totally safe. The name comes from Seth who coined it after watching the president of CRAG-VT go "flying" so many times.

An excellent route mixed with gear and bolts. The 12a crux is bolt protected though 5.10+ moves are gear protected.Work up an easy slab to a stance below an overhanging corner that is easier than it looks. Push through the gear-protected corner (5.10) and up to increasingly steep terrain and a crux to exit the corner and pull right. Finally, work up a crack system and through the redpoint crux that guards the anchor.

Just right of Before the dawn and left of an oak tree at the end of a fixed line is this fun, crimping focused route.  Climb moderate face climbing up into the prominent left facing corner that ultimately leads into "Before the Dawn". Break right 4 or 5 bolts up around a blunt arete making an interesting mantle.  Tackle increasingly difficult thin face climbing up to a thin crux.  Continue on as the ground eases to a nice rounded quartz crack and the top of the cliff.  Lower off a two bolt ring anchor.  

Very fun and a good candidate for an onsight attempt. Yet another classic 12- on the Dometop wall.

 Work up the first 3 bolts of P2 Lichenology and then step right to stay on mechanical bolts. Gain the slab with an awkward move and wander up to a stance below the headwall. From here work up good incut holds with good feet and fun moves up to a mantle that will test your redpoint strength.

Phenomenology - the study of the structures of experience and consciousness.  The right most line at the upper dome. 10 protection bolts and 2 bolt anchor.   Begin below a line of glue-in wave bolts. The first section of the route is 5.8 climbing past interesting holds and 5 glue-in bolts. Gain a ramp and past another bolt.  Surmount a ledge.   From the ledge Phenomenology follows the right most path of 4 bolts.  Fun moves on good crimps get you to a shake out rest and bouldery finish.

The Dometop is shaping up to be one of the single best walls in Bolton. If you like 5.12- then this is your haven, there are 6 routes at 12a within 50 feet, each one as good as the next. Routes here are taller than they look and all reach the top of the dome. Many old pins were discovered throughout the face and concentrated in the rotten base on the right side showing evidence of many previous training sessions by the Vermont Mountain Warfare Division and old aid climbing efforts.

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Routes in 9. Dometop