Up the face to a small triangular spot, then up (crux) to a thin crack.  Then head left up the crack to join Animalitos.  [per Vogel]

Animalargos

Animalitos

Direct Wrench

Over The Hill

White Powder

An Eye to the West

Crescent Wrench

Tossed Green

Discontinuous thin cracks (crux; hard to protect) to a crack to the top.  [per Vogel]

Climb thin seams up the face to join

Crescent Wrench

for it's last moves. Fingery and delicate climbing make this trickier than appearances might suggest.

This climb is very loose and a real thrash.

Located on Hound Rock, this route is about five feet to the right of the route Tossed Green. Start on an easy slab which leads into the crack proper. Climb up to a rotten downward pointing flake. Surmount this (crux) and continue up the crack to the top. There are rap slings around a large boulder at the top of the crack. The poor rock on this route is in contrast to the good rock on the other Hound Rock routes.

Gain the right most of two cracks imediately above the large boulder between Crescent Wrench and Tossed Green. A tricky boulder type move leads to an off-balance crack. At the tougher end of the 5.9 continuum, with interesting moves all the way to the top. Almost on par with Tossed Green for quality.

Down climb by wandering up and back down to the left (south) above Crescent Wrench.

This is the thin aching crack visible as you first reach the rock. Thin crack, thin gear, thin feet - thin! Easy walk-off to the climber's left.

Hidden but a short distance from the crowds at Trashcan Rock is this gem of a route which if it were roadside would see almost constant traffic.

Climb a short slab, or as an alternative traverse in from the left, to reach the base of the crack which starts with a short vertical section of fingers and hands. Above this is a ledge and another short section with fingers and some stemming/liebacking to reach a second ledge. The last bit climbs up and right on face holds until able to traverse back left to reach good hand jams which lead to the top and the anchors.

The variety of moves on this coupled with the setting make for a

tradtastic

​​​​ experience. Three stars out of five.

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Routes in Hound Rock