This classic sport route features 5 bolts and calls for some fun near hand foot matches and expert balance with it’s left to right gymnast like movements.  Don’t miss the mono pocket above the first bolt as you find feet to stand or dyno to the shelved hand hold.  Mantle and use the left finger crack and right arete to pill onto the face before making a committing move and clipping the anchor.  2 bolts with rap rings. (TR from anchors of “Casey’s Elephant”.  To reduce rope drag at the top rap down from the top and set up on the actual 2 bolt anchors of “Elephant Express”.  Be prepared to top out at “Casey’s” anchors or rap to clean.  Please don’t lower on rap anchors.) (*NOTE: Clipping the first bolt is a good confidence booster and for practice but a leader fall before the second bolt would be nearly impossible to catch.  Most climbers skip the first bolt altogether.*)

Elephant Express

Right Ear

Left Ear

Pacadermis (AKA Elephant Direct)

Casey's Elephant

Follows crack starting to the left of "Elephant Express".  One bolt protects the featureless climbing before the thin finger crack. 2 bolted hangers are the anchors at the top of the final slab.

Follow the broken pillars up and to the left.  Climb the micro edges to reach a pocket near the top before topping out.  2 bolted hangars are the anchors to finish the climb above the low angle finish.

Climb the thin face of the column exposed by the crumble of a previously standing shift column and traverse right across a flake formed by the fractured in the column forming the elephants trunk.  Move into the hand crack and follow the finish of "Elephant Direct" to two bolted anchors atop the low angle finish.

Start's with "Elephant Direct" but moves left at the fracture in the elephants trunk and continues up with the "Right Ear" variation.  

 (Established as a top rope route, unsure whether or not there is a proper first ascent on this route.)

Wedged in between the "1st Wall" and the upper access gully, the "Elephant Wall" is a clean faced set of columns to the east of the "1st Wall".  The routes on this wall begin around the arete from the "Middle School" route. This wall feature 6 routes over it's clean faced columns, including trad routes, TR, and sport. Some of the original routes still features on the page have different beta from their original first ascents due to the tipping over of a few columns.

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Routes in Elephant Wall