ELK ROCKS, Dunbar PA

The Routes:

  1. unamed 5.5 Climb the pocketed face and wide crack to the top. 20'
  2. unamed 5.9+ Climb the corner to an undercling below the roof. Pull through the overhang and continue to the top. 25'
  3. Fallapartflake 5.7 Climb the corner until possible to move right into the large undercling flake. Climb the flake, pull the bulge and continue to the top. 30'
  4. October 5.11b Start at the large hole. Climb up and right through several flake/pockets. Move back left and continue on flakes up to the huecos. Climb the huecos to the shuts. 35' F.A. Tim Anderson, Scott Richards

    Note: Climb with caution. Much of the rock here is very soft and cannot support body weight. The routes listed above are now in solid shape (after many broken holds). Other possibilities exist to be done, but be careful.


    Additional Route:
  5. Kentucky Fried 5.12b This route begins 6' left of October. It climbs up through a small flake and several monos to the pockets above. 35' F.A. Matt Johns, Tim Anderson - Can be climbed from the shuts of October.