Friction up slab to gain a right-facing, blocky flake and follow this to the overlap. Beyond the overlap, friction up slab (left of the P2 crack of Chess Club Crack) past a few bolts to the top.

The Fist

Chess Club Crack

Belle Bottom Crack

Discovered Check

Glee Club Crack

Also Ran

Belleview

Lawyers, Guns, and Money

Giucco Piano

O'Tom's Tick Twister

Good friction training.   Climb slab, passing a bolt, to low overhang. Climb through this at a short vertical crack, move up onto a steep slab and climb it, passing 2 bolts along the way, to a final flap and 1 more bolt before reaching a small oak tree on a ledge under the big white pine tree.

This climb would be OK if cleaned up, notable mostly for justifying those huge cams you bought but never use. 

P1: (V1) Climb the flake/corner to its top, then walk across the slab directly right, passing around an overhang to reach the fat crack. Climb up to an oak tree growing out of the crack and belay. 65' 

P2: Climb giant crack in slab to the top. 45' 

V1 5.8: Climb slab slightly right of directly below crack, reaching a right-facing corner after several dicey moves.

Climb up to the crack; getting there is the crux.   Continue up with wonderful jams, especially for the right side, until the crack takes a sudden dogleg left. Either follow the crack to its end, then head over to Glee Club Crack to finish, or (original ascent line) climb straight up knobby slab to the top.

Unexpectedly, here is a decent route between 2 other lines already done. With 3 different cruxes, this was a nice find.   Climb into left-facing corner (crux #1) and make a delicate move out and over it, passing a bolt as you do. Climb trivial slab to an overhang, climbing through it easily at a point below a right-facing flake/corner. Climb the corner a couple feet, then move out left onto the slab. Crux #2 is friction, happily bolt-protected. After one dicey move, the going is once again casual (tho unprotected) up to a final headwall, where one more bolt protects the final crux move. A bit more dicey friction leads to the white pine; a small oak tree lies invitingly to the right for those who want off a bit earlier.

Climb crack to ledge, make an awkward stem, or friction, move to gain the ledge on the left. Walk left to below the crack, then climb up to it. Follow the crack, utilizing good holds on the left wall for purchase and pro, until fantasy knobs on either side of the crack allow easier, albeit runout, climbing past the oak tree (may want to sling it). Reenter the crack and follow it as it sweeps rightward to the top of the cliff. 

V1 5.6: Start directly below the crack and friction up to the ledge. Quite a bit harder.

Tricky crux moves lead off the ground to a shelf, one might find pro in the crack here. Step left to knobs on the slab above and climb them, sans pro, to the top.   The name says it all. It adds little or nothing to the overall quality of the Belleview. It just seemed like something that needed doing. Utilizing the crux-eliminating traverse in along the shelf might make this a decent TR for beginners.   Be aware that, while the climbing gets easier as one ascends, there is no gear. Append a 5.3X mentality when leading this.

The crux is getting up the first ten feet, the first bolt is well past this. You may want to stick-clip it from the right.   After clipping that bolt, the climbing settles down, a lot up to a horizontal crack, then gets interesting, though not very hard, the rest of the way. Bolts and another crack or two provide gear.   Were the rest of the route as hard as its start, this would be a premium friction testpiece.

Climb up dicey slab to clip the first bolt from the right, then shift left. Strange and wonderous movement pulls through the steepness. The challenges don't end just yet, though nothing is quite so tricky afterward. Still, the line of bolts is greatly appreciated and at times their separation unpleasant until the last is passed and the climbing really does settle down.   Were the entire 90' like the first 25, this would be a masterpiece of friction and technical skill.

Climb the corner and flake to its top. Friction up to obscure steps breaking a steep spot (tiny C3s here), then climb slab (1 bolt) to a short, left-facing flake. At its top, climb up to an overhang (possible to escape left here). Pass the overhang on its right, then climb easy crack and slab to a large white pine tree.   Hard moves lie near the bolt and getting around the overhang.   Very decent route if cleaned up.

The herd path diverging from the East Path comes directly to this slab. It is about 110' tall at its highest. The path comes up below a left-facing corner that doesn't quite reach the ground, this is Belle Bottom Crack.

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Routes in Belleview Slab