One of the first routes you come to when you drop right from the main trail to summit.  A short crack goes up, then traverses hard right for a bit, then goes straight up to the overlook.  Reknowned rock explorer Charles Ivey reports he belayed Shane on FA.  Brushy near the top. There is an old underground guide that names this line Bittersweet Retreat, so we will go with that.

Bittersweet Retreat

Hook Pop, Body Drop And The Biting Flies

Little Politician

Useless #8

Golden Hour

Doctor's Orders

Spangled Fritillary

Double Jam

Side Trip extension

Side Trip

A Boy Named Trad

Beerchuckers Layback

Alcoa Karma

Too Short to Start

Passage

Shiloh

Roof Traverse

Black Thumb

The Sign

The Eagle Has Landed

Rachel's Tears

Scratch the Itch

Start on the obvious slopers with a foot on the lower lip. Bump left on slopers to the huge jug rail and then mantle after moving up the arete

Layback/face climb short corner to bolt. Face climb through heavy lichen past more bolts then find two bolt top anchor under a small roof.  Rebolted in May 2018 but a few of the old rusty bolts still need to be removed.

Sit start at the bottom left side of boulder on slopers, fire up and right on easy slopers and quartz knobs for feet, mantle at the peak.

Step 1: Place the #8.

Step 2: Sling it long to reduce rope drag & so it won't keep you off the ground...

THEN scramble inside the awkward crack, gain a side pull and proceed to shred skin and spirit as you lasciviously grind your way up the off width (hint: Do Kata Hazushi Ichi).   The crux is low and protects extremely well. Continue up another 30ish feet to a dead tree and head left to the anchors for Hook Pop, Body Drop And The Biting Flies. There is a nice ledge to stand on to soak in your success & the view before you make the last move to the anchors.

Special Thanks to Angela,  Stephan, Julia, & Christy for there support in this historic First Ascent!

The moves down low are tricky but fun and well protected. Move up and right over stacked boulders at the top for anchors. The crux is about 4-5 delicate moves on clean knobs, then the climbing gets pretty easy.

Begin on protruding white holds, then move up and right to two horizontal fist jams.  It’s a little less airy than The Sign and a fun romp that leads to summit of Eagle.  There aren’t many boulder problems that lead to a view of both Linville and Crowders. This one does.

Start at the lowest jug down beneath the roof. Follow good holds left until you link up to the original problem

Start on crescent hold, then to a sloping mantel.

Around corner right of Rachel's Tears and The Eagle Has Landed. Stick clip first bolt, start climbing slightly right of bolt. Work way left and up to arete. Thin moves past third bolt are crux. Continue to anchors on top shared with Rachel's Tears.

Named after Eddie's new baby boy.

Squirm up start, then climb to bolt near the top.  There is an old two bolt anchor above. The old guide calls this Beerchucker's Layback.  Based on all the old broken bottles littering the area, it is well named.

Fun low ball! Sit start at a flake, then up and mantel. Avoid the mossy area to the right.

5.10++++ off width.  May need a top cleaning before leading.  Freaking hard/ weird body position.  Full disclosure; I seconded the route and couldn’t pull the awkward moves.

Start in the wide crack... either chicken wing or use the right edge of the crack, then hand traverse fat right under the “passage”.  This route starts right next to Little Politian and climbs underneath The Sign.  30 feet of climbing and never far off the ground.

Named..., well in anticipation. Bolted on lead with aid and stupid human tricks on March 8, 2008. F.F.A. on March 26. Fierce opening moves give way to sustained bouldering and boiling forearms.

Climb obvious Layback Corner until near the top.  Turn left and traverse beneath the giant roof to the summit.

A buldgy boulder with an amazing view behind. Climbs the right side of rounded arete. There are likely 3+ other problems of better quality/ difficulty on this boulder.

Great rock, easy highball that summits the upper tier of Eagle Rock.

Pull up on arching feature to a ledge passing a rhodo.  Climb up and slightly left to bolt.  Crimp up to horizontal with gear.  Traverse slightly left to thin crack.  Crank to summit.

Climb up to rhodo, step right and up the arete.  Anchors on top.

back story: by Julie Miller:

"According to all who knew her, Rachel Joy Scott was an amazingly compassionate seventeen year old girl, who's deepest desire was to be a friend to the friendless, to know God, and to show love to everyone she touched.  On the morning of April 20th, 1999 Rachel seemed not to be paying attention in class, preoccupied with something she was writing in her journal.  Then, sometime a little after 11am, while sitting with a friend outside for lunch, Rachel was the first of thirteen innocent persons to be killed at Columbine High School.  Later, out of a backpack with a bullet hole, her journal was found.  On the final page she had made a drawing of her eyes with thirteen clear tears falling from them upon a rose.  The same rose was discovered drawn in another diary, this time growing up out of a columbine plant with the words 'Greater love has no man than this, that a man would lay down his life for his friends'" (John 15:13).

Cool horizontal jam up high.   Might still need some dusting off up top.

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