Start on the weird triangle feature that sticks out of the wall down low.  Big move to a ledge, than pull around the arete and up the slab.

Corn Hole

Power Play

Hide Away

Street Thug

Maggie

Hobo Arêté

Alternative Evolution

Grease the Track

Scott's Knee

Slip 'n Slide

Hobos revenge

Gumputation

Dice moves

Glizzy Gladiator

Jumption

Spearin' Biscuits

Alternative Living

Hobotion

Human Evolution

Compression sit start on the lowest two holds then with the cleaver foot work bump your hands up to increasingly better holds. short but quite good. this route is made difficult by the fact that you are starting on the lip of a very short roof.  Bone Polisher is Hobo slang for a mean dog.

Start the same as alternative living but take the right hand finish.  I found using a heel hook was key to making the big move from the lip of the overhang.

Sit start on a good right hand and a crapy left hand.  bump and slap your way up to the jug at the top or go big or some combination.  There is a painful kneebar and the move can be done static.  Also watch out for the stump it is a butt breaker.

Start on Left hand low side pull right hand brick pinch and with huge moves, toe hooks, and heals work your way out the roof to large incut/jug. From the incut/jug use some slopers and trickery to gain the top.

Start on the good jug and move up the arêté top on to the right or continue up the arêté.

Stand start on the large left facing side pull. Work your feet until you get a right hand, then move right to the arête and finally work your way up to the top.

Sit Start low on left sidepull under the the roof and right sidepull on lip. Fun power trend up and left around the arêté to finish same as Bone Polisher AKA Power Play.  Grease the Track is hobo for getting run over by a train.

Stand start on two good underclings that face the back of the cave.  Slap your left hand out to a vertical hold, then work some foot work magic to gain the triangle pinch jug on the lip of the roof finish straight up the face.  Starting at the back of the cave for the full line is an open project which might go around V10.

Sit start with left hand on blocky pinch and right hand on sloping ledge. Work your way through two downturing slopey sidepull ledges to a not so easy top out.

Start the same as Scott's Knee, but head right instead of left. Compression, one reachy move, and fun foot beta, leads to a thin topout. You use the left hand pinches from Maggie as a foot at one point.

Gump is a Hobo term for a piece of meat.  Start on right small crimp and left sidepull. Get yourself to the undercling looking hold and try not to lose your Gump, going for good holds up top.  Once you figure out how to use the good undercling looking hold, the problem comes together.

Two hard moves beginning with a sit start on two crimps, move up and right to good right hand followed by a big move to the sloping ledge, then continue up the slab to the top, main cave roof is on and quite help full to get up the slab.  It may be possibly to use only the slab but this does not add any thing to the line.

Start on low horizontal crimp edge, work through a series of crimpy features. Finish with a large lunge to the lip off square crimp feature. Big low triangle bulge is on for foot.

Start just to the right of Gumputation on two crimps. with good feet do a huge move to the lip and top out just above the jug out right.  

Stand start in the chronically wet crack start hold. Do a thuggy move right to the sloper rail. Spear the Biscuit toe to top out the face.

Start in the back of the roof on a good hold that has a lose chock stone that prevents you from getting as much of your left hand as you would like on it.  From there move left to a great jug, then right to a good hold on the lip of the roof. finish by moving up and left towards a seem and following that seem to the top.  The finish up the seem to the right is Hide Away.

First move crux. Gets easier as you get higher. Another excellent addition to the cliff.

Start on a large left facing side pull work your feet up until you get a good right hand and a good left hand, then you can either go crimpy or go big to the lip.

On Sept the 25th 2010 the Mountain Goats climbing team from Vertical Endeavors St Paul and their friends spent the day cleaning out this amazing roof, and former alternative living space, making it available to climbing once again.  It is rumored to have been the home of some UMD students, and was complete with a stove and every thing one would need for surviving a winter in Duluth outside, including the remains of an ample supply of beer.  Some of these lines where done by Jeremy J Schlick and Luke Evens in 94/95 but the names and grades have been lost to history.  The cave consists of a large roof about 5.5 to 6 feet high and about 10 feet deep and 15 feet long, and is a definite must see for the consummate Minnesota climber. 

  Note: all grades are provisional more ascents need.

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Routes in ALC (Alternative Living Cave)