Quality slab climbing on smears and patina edges lead up to and past an overlap and some stemming before reaching the anchors. A little crispy in spots but generally quite solid.

Tim's Valentine

Angel's Wing

Fresh Step

Witness Stand

Solar Panel

Broken Hearted

Alibi

Uppercut

Remembering Marina

Turkey Breast

Knockout

Out of Order

Climb the slab past a mixture of smears and edges to a crux encounter up high as you pull over a small roof/overlap. The rock on this route leaves something to be desired down low as each ascent will probably be a "fresh step" but thankfully the crux moves are on solid patina.

Toprope the face between Turkey Breast and Broken Hearted begining with slab moves up to a short, vertical jamcrack that peters out. Slab climbing leads to the top.

This is a short, steep, tightly bolted sport climb located just left of

Alibi

. Power through a bulge on patina jugs to a tricky stand-up, then make a delicate traverse left to a sloper finish.

This is the big, low-angle corner on the left side of the central slab, ending in a short layback.

Follow the crack up to the top avoiding the various small plants and lizards that call it home.

For a toprope variation,  when your feet get to the horizontal crack, traverse to the right to the anchors for Broken Hearted/Turkey Breast and lower off from there.

A scrappy high step starts this route which is steeper and sharper than its immediate neighbors to the right.  Fairly continuous climbing leads to the crux at the third bolt.  After surmounting the headwall, the climbing becomes easier climbing a scoop up to the ledge. You can either cross to the anchors for

Tim's Valentine

, or climb through the next face (gear) to another anchor.

Interesting climbing on vertical patina plates gives way to a engaging sequence of thin crimps and sloping smears (crux) just past the 2nd bolt. Once the third bolt is reached a few more smears lead up and slightly left to a rounded mantle and anchors up and over the top.

Although short this is a high quality route that deserves more attention.

Far left side of the Solarium, begins left of the big corner/gully.

Climb a face past 2 bolts (5.9) up to a ledge, then lieback a short, right-facing dihedral to a right-slanting crack under a roof. Pumper jams (hand to fingers) with a tricky exit.

2 bolt lower off anchor (100 ft.)

Slab climb up patina edges and smears past a short right-facing corner (crux) with interesting stemming moves to a slight runout onto a ledge below a bulge with the last bolt where a quick pull on edges leads to anchors.

The aforementioned runout is on easy terrain but if so desired a large knob can be slung by reaching down from the ledge above the 4th bolt.

This is the low-angle slab just right of Solar Panel, that can be toproped from the 2-bolt anchor shared with Broken Hearted.

Begin by climbing about 1/2 way up the corner of

Solar Panel

(5.0), then move left and clip a bolt just above a Yucca plant. From here the route is sport-bolted (6 bolts total) to a 2-bolt anchor.

The crux, at the very top, above the last bolt, is height dependent. If you're shorter than about 5 foot 9 inches tall it'll be much more challenging (5.10) and you might need to dyno for the lip at the top!

Easy terrain quickly gives way to a tricky lieback past the first bolt and into a devious crux sequence moving past a horizontal crack (crux). Higher a bit of slab climbing culminates with a delicate mantle over the rounded lip to anchors over the top.

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Routes in SW Face Center (The Solarium)