Cow Reggae is a short, technical route on some of the best stone The Wild Iris has to offer.  Though barely 25 feet long, this route is very sustained, with multiple difficult moves, and an intricate crux just below the anchor.

Begin high up on the ramp, with a sinker 2 finger pocket for the right hand and an odd shaped four-finger thing for the left.  Lunge up to the obvious huge jug, and move left along the break.  Good holds lead to a sinker sidepull mono (right hand).  The tweakiest move on this route is a long cross off of this mono, but once you figure out the feet its not too bad.  The crux boulder problem begins just above with burly, tricky, insecure moves between two finger pockets & shallow dishes.  Work up & left to a nice mailslot and a good shake.  One more tricky sting in the tail leads to a great jug below the anchor.

Cow Reggae

Babalouie

The High Way

Genetic Drifter

Single Cell

Bobcat Logic

The Ground From Upside Down

Rodeoactive

Ground Beef

Rodeo Free Europe

Bob Marley

Iodine-131

The Lander Cutoff

The Ranch

Groundcat

Atomic Cow

Atomic Stetson

Start on the Cow Reggae sit start with a bad left hand crimp and a tight right hand 2 finger pocket and pull hard moves using a bull horn double mono and some terrible sidepulls. Move up and left avoiding the obvious jug flakes on the start of Ground to the jug right below the start of Bobcat. Finish up Ground.

An easier link up that starts on Cow Reggae and goes right to finish on Atomic Stetson after bolt 2 of CR.  Very short in terms of number of moves (like 13).  It's a fun boulder problem, however, and has a really cool "Spock" pocket between bolt 3 and 4.

Start as for Rodeo Free, climbing to the 5th bolt (don’t clip it!) before traversing above the atomic Stetson crux all the way into Cow Reggae. Finish directly.

Climb Rodeo Free to the 4th bolt and then traverse left, making a hard move into the undercling on Atomic Stetson. Climb the crux of that route linking left into Cow Reggae. Finish direct.

This route starts at the far left side of the Rodeo Wave.  It begins right of the Ranch, and shares the last two bolts of that route.  Clip a draw while standing on the slab, then hop on for a burly ride.  The holds are somewhat different than the rest of the Wave.  Expect pinches and twisty body positions to work your way left.  The belayer stands down in a guano/hanta virus filled hole to stay out of your way as you grapple with the cryptic sequence.

This route has been done as a boulder problem, but the landing sucks and the bolts are already there.  Do as you see fit.

Several cruxes on this short continuous line.  Involves long pulls off of mostly good pockets.  Like many of the pockety lines at the Iris, she's pretty sequential.  Use good rope tricks like clipping the 1st bolt of the line to the right (Cow Reggae) to keep from being strung up.  With a long stick clip you can pre hang nearly all the draws on the line from the shelf that follows the angle of the wall.  Great movement.

This is a cool little edition from the summer of 2010 that is actually a boulder problem.  It is, however, probably the longest independent route (i.e. not a link up) on the Rodeo Wave.  Start from a sit down to the right of Bobcat Logic on an obvious 2 finger pocket for the right and a undercling for the left.  Stay fairly low, using suprisingly good holds.  You follow the slab up and left, passing beneath the start of Bobcat and topping out above the highest point of the slab.  The last bit is kind of airy, but with a good spot you should be okay.  Summit and walk off to the climber's left.

Hard moves off the ground lead to a much easier finish

"Pretty Dang Western!"  - Paul Piana

This is the long line in the Rodeo Wave that starts from the ground and climbs straight up.  Start by doing a short boulder problem to gain an obvious jug flake, then boulder through 2 more bolts with some funky moves and small pockets before reaching better holds and romping to the top.

A link up of Bobcat Logic and Cow Reggae.  Avoids the cruxes of both.  Start on Bobcat logic, and traverse right after bolt 3, clipping the last bolt of Cow Reggae.  The first few moves are bouldery between generally good, smooth pockets. Many possible sequences move right, with the best having a big cross. There is an exit crux on crimps at the top of Cow Reggae as the angle eases off. Easiest line on the Rodeo Wave.

This is a new linkup between Rodeo Active and Rodeo Free Europe. Begin with the brutal crux of Rodeo Active, climbing to the third bolt (a double draw helps here for rope drag). Instead of continuing toward the chains through the easier but balancy climbing above on Rodeo Active, engage another crux moving straight left into the sika jug and second half of the crux on Rodeo Free Europe and finish on that line.

A little harder than Rodeo Active with the addition of the link boulder, this could be upper-end 13d or on the lower end of 14a.

Iodine-131 is a radionuclide released in large quantities during the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Climb on good holds, then mediocre holds, then good holds.

Far left route on the Rodeo Wave.  Belay from the ledge.  Not done very often due to the slab behind.

Start on the Ground and go straight up  to Bobcat Logic finishing on that route. Fun big moves all the way on good holds.

Combines the lower crux of Atomic Stetson and the upper crux on Cow Reggae with no real rest in-between.  Possibly the best route on the Rodeo Wave.

Bouldery through the lower half then 5.12 for the last bolt or two.

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