This totally manufactured route offers some fun movement if you can ignore the obvious ethical detractions.  The climbing is characterized by long reaches and sequential moves between incut, chipped pockets.

New Age Nightmare

The Boya from La Jolla Who Stepped on a Cholla

Whining Dog

This is the best route in the area, and probably one of the best 5.11s at Cochiti.  The route ascends beautiful dark brown stone, with long cerebral moves.  The crux comes low on the route, but its quite sustained throughout.

This super-fun route climbs the softest stone at Cochiti, which is saying quite a lot.  The route was bolted for leading at one time, but the bolts were removed, presumably by hand, when it was determined that the notion of bolts in this rock was just plain crazy.  However, the route has recently been resurrected with a new bolted TR anchor.  If you can lower yourself to the level of TR-ing, this is a must-do route, and an excellent warmup.

The upper cliff band is really an extension of the North Cliff Band of Cochiti Mesa.  Its on the far left (north) end of Cochiti's North Cliffband.  Routes here tend to be longer than most other routes on the North and South cliffbands. 

  This crag is a really great place to toprope, as it is particularly easy to setup TRs, and several routes can only be climbed on TR.

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Routes in Upper Cliff Band