The route starts at the corner and shift slight to the right. There is a large crack that goes straight up. Follow the crack. The crux of the route is a small bluge. Once you past the bulge the route is much easier.

Tomahawk Crack

Beauty Slab

Brave

Sudoku

The Uncrackola

Ho-Chunk

Jay's Jaunt

Winnebago

The McCord

Perplexity

Cracked Diamond

Puzzlement

Mohawk

Blue Nose

Axeman

Escher's Stairs

Thick as a Brick

Teepee

Climb the dark north-facing inside corner with a large crack. The crack hardly comes into play, though, since it seems simpler and more enjoyable to climb using stemming and holds outside of the crack.

 This is route #2 in both the Swarling/Mayer and Knower books.

Climb the slab and face on thin holds. Start right of an inside corner and left of an outside corner and go straight up to top. Easier slab climbing at the bottom becomes harder as the angle steepens and the holds get thinner.

 Using the outside corner on the right makes it a 5.7.

 This is an unnamed 5.10a in both the Swartling/Mayer and Knower books.

 

Looks like there should be more to work with than there is.  Start just right of the crack - the wall is just barely overhanging.  Move left and up into the crack.  Where the "crack" widens (but seams out), move further left and continue fighting your way up.

Thin side-pulls to a ledge, then blocky moves to the top.

Face with right-facing hanging dihedral near the right side of the wall

This route is about 5 feet to the right of Tomahawk crack. The start is about the same as Tomahawk then it moves farther right. The route accends the easy broken terrain.

Climb the right facing flake to the ledge. At ledge shift left and climb the thin crack.

Start on the smoothest face on this wall between the right corner and the easier cracks and broken rocks to the left. When you reach the wide ledge just below the summit rocks, decide whether to bail out to the left, or climb straight up the lake-facing summit blocks to the top.

If you were puzzled by Puzzlement to the left, you may be perplexed by this one. Difficult climbing at the bottom makes you wonder about the 5.9 rating, especially just above the overhang. But it leads to some interesting climbing on thin holds on the upper half.The guidebooks don't say anything about whether the left or right corners are off. Although it seems like cheating using either corner, it still is no cake-walk. 

 This is an unnamed 5.9 route in the guidebooks.

Step up on the flat rock and climb up the flakey right side of the diamond-shaped rock to the ledge about half-way up. From the ledge, climb over the middle of the roof using the nice hand jam crack.

 Not listed in the guidebooks.

That puzzling size that is a bit wide for off-width, but too narrow to chimney. 

  As is typical for our quartzite, you might use some off-width holds (arm bars, heel-and-toes), but you don't really have to make any off-width moves - there is always an edge someplace, if you can figure out how to use it!

Typical quartzite face climbing.  Goes at 5.6-5.8 depending on how disciplined you are about not using the rocks behind you at the start.

Climb up the sharp lichen-covered nose of the arete (it's OK to favor one side or the other, rather than straight over the tip). When the angle of the arete eases, step across the V trough and climb the opposite side using a slanting sharp crack to the right corner. Finish by pulling the overhang at the top.

Perfect hand jams.  The final jam may be a bit dirty.

This is a nice little 5.9 route. It is mainly slab climbing on small holds.(Name suggested by Pete Cleveland.)

This is the far right crack on the northern end of the farthest north rocks of Tomahawk rocks.

Start off the block. Climb the thin,awkward, jagged seam just a few feet right of Brave .

The most shaded, most obscure of the three North End areas.

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Routes in Tomahawk Rocks