Stump

This is a steep, almost vertical climb that is mostly pockets and jugs.

The technical crux is probably getting to and clipping the first bolt; for me the harder part was clipping the chains because the pockets get smaller and scarcer and you have to climb a bit higher than you'd like in order to comfortably clip them.

There is an interesting, rounded, wooden "hold" just after and to the right of the second bolt: it is the remains of a shrub stem.

This is the left-most of three routes on the south-facing, next-to-west-most section of

Hard Rock

. The least-strenuous way to get there is to follow the trail when it turns right to go to the main

Hard Rock

wall (west-facing). Go north (left) along the main wall; you will turn west and by staying along the base of the rock you will end up at the base of these three newer

Hard Rock

routes.

Alternatively, don't turn right to the main

Hard Rock

area and instead continue straight to the base of the wall you see ahead of you as you come up the trail to the

Hard Rock

/

White Wave

/

Escape Buttress areas

.

5 bolts, chain anchors.