This is the descent route for the Cove overlook, cove wall, and projects between the cove and the slide.

Mooring Line Descent Route

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Good diversion for beginners skunked on the slides due to weather or time. Zig Zag up easy ground until it's time time top-out on a tiny roop (5.4)

Getting on it is challenging but if frustration risks turning your crew off you can guide them up the ramps off-route to the right to get them on the wall without the bouldery start as well as advise them to just ring the bell at the top as the top-out is a standard Adirondack freak-out which may be a turn-off to beginners.For leaders, avoid the temptation to exit left as it may be easier but loose. Most of the monkey-skull sized rocks and broken branches have been cleaned off the ledges but be aware.  Found a beer can pull-tab on the first ledge (from 1980 or earlier) as evidence of the 'this looks easy' trap luring party-boat people since the 70's... Top-out is definitely not a 'gimmie'.

Easy walk-on access from Roger's Rock Campground with a short trail from the Cove Boulders. a good warm up wall or beginner intro and a great diversion if you're already set up with a campsite but backing off the boat approach to Roger's slide due to weather or time.Lot's of opportunity (including the far more committing routes on the official "Cove Wall" above and left (Adirondack Rock, V2 Book2, p 91).The two most accessible and obvious lines are before the "Mooring Line Descent Route" and offer a mountaineering vibe with challenging but manageable over-hanging top-outs and direct starts that might prove both exciting and frustrating for a new climber. Top ropes are an easy set-up using the Mooring Line a bit further down the trail.

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Routes in Cove Overlook