An amazing line on great stone, and an area classic since it's tall, has great movement, and is aesthetically pleasing.

The top will clean up a bit with more ascents, but right now, if you stay on the good holds, it's clean enough.

Sliced Bread

Left Behind

Car Park Bloc

La Boulangerie

Surly Traverse

Burly

Font Simulator

Solid warm up movement right next to the parking. Doesn't look like much, but it will get your body ready for harder movement. There are number of worthwhile variations on this stone.

Since they are all pretty chill, and not more than 4-5 moves at the most, I have compressed this bloc into a single route entry.

There are a few brief lines on it, though, and all warm up different parts of your body.

Line 1 is to step on in the middle of the wall, and stand up to an easy mantle. v0

Line 2 is to step up on the right, to easy mantle. v0

Line 3 is to start on the slopers on the left, and traverse all the way across the boulder, then top out hugging the bulge on the far right side. This is the most fun. v1

Line 4 is to start on the slopers on the left, paste feet on wide edges, and mantle straight up. v2

Really fun variation on the Font Simulator. Sit start down and right, then up to the lip, traverse left into better holds, and finish up Font Simulator. Good climbing.

The best line on Font simulator? Really good movement on cool slopers up the middle of the bugle/onto slab. Good stuff.

Now that everything has been cleaned up on this boulder, it's the most obvious line.

A cool, easy traverse behind Burly that is worth scampering up a few times to warm up. It still needs a little clean up, but it's one of the better v0s at Rock Shop, I'd say.

I made up a name that hopefully is decent, but if this has FA info and a chosen name, let me know.

Absolutely awesome climbing on technical holds that face the wrong way. It takes some creativity and body english to climb this well. Depending on how you climb it, it can be satisfyingly shouldery/powerful.

This one is worth a visit. Started unassumingly under the roof, with hands on the face, then stand up into a cool undercling, and reach gently over the lip and settle onto a couple of slopers. Work your way up and right to finish. Best line on the bloc.

Fun name, and if you squint your eyes a little and ignore the very clearly alpine granite sensation of climbing it, the name can be accurate.

Same start, then up and over the lip and to the left is v5-v6.

Same start, and creeping around the corner to the left is v1-2? (not as certain about this one).

There is a sit start on the right side that starts on crimps, then up onto the lip, then traverses left into the Font Simulator, and that is v6, and pretty fun.

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Routes in Nexus Area/ East Rock Shop