This is definitely an underappreciated route, with really cool climbing and a surprising lack of chalk for it being in such a popular area. This line does not come easily, with some classic gloryhole thugging up the first few bolts, leading to a great rest right before the last bolt. Very difficult moves guard the chains, clipping the chains is the crux of the route now (broken hold atop.) This rig is not to be missed!

Scar Lover

Devil Doll

Lactic Acid Bath

Against the Grain

Massacre

Yowsah

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Mojo Hand

Bloody Mushroom Stamp

In the Flat Field

Blood Raid

A wonderful, steep route - and by far the easiest route at The Hole. Some gymnastic roof climbing with a few desperate clips. Everything from buckets to slopers. Enjoy!

Climb LAB to the 5th bolt, but instead of going right on vicious underclings, diverge left to a crimp rail with horrendous feet. Heels and toes work well to keep you from falling. After some burlyness (I campused quite a few moves), pull onto the headwall and clip from a stellar jug. Keep it together for a couple more difficult moves before rendezvousing with the chains of Mojo.

At the back of the huge overhang, near the center, climb poor, vert rock to a bolt, then head out into the inverted world, passing eight more bolts on your way to the anchors. Don't miss the hands-free rest... not for the faint of heart or imagination-challenged. This climb will seriously push you and you might feel like throwing up towards the end or on the lower crux.

Crux is a sequential series of underclings that traverse out and right that will force your eyeballs out of their sockets.

Against the Grain climbs more like a boulder than a route, and consists of a short sequence of power pulling. Don't underestimate it, however, as it requires a healthy amount of core strength and pure burl ability.

Scramble up detached blocks to clip the first bolt (shared with Mojo Hand). Casual moves along big holds ease you into two bolts of easy roof flake climbing. A long move onto a sloped edge marks the beginning of the difficulty.

Shouldery gastons and crossovers along a small seam in the horizontal roof lead to a one-handed jug (which inexplicably seeps). The next crux section involves several huge reaches between surprisingly good holds. However, the feet are distressingly bad and/or absent.

Another powerful stab into a sloping seam, and then a core-intensive lurch for a sloper finally give way to some easier crimpy face and anchors.

An extension to the already classic Lactic Acid Bath.  Clip a 10th bolt just left of the anchors of LAB, crank a V3/4 ish boulder problem, long deadpoint type move where you will most likely cut feet...precise.  2 bolt anchor.

For being among the easiest of the routes at the glory hole, this rig presents quite the series of challenges. Start off by climbing on a less than ideal rock-quality face, making your way around the right side of a large projecting tooth. Hunker down in an awkward position right below the roof to get ready for the business. Reach up and grab hold of a large flake with sloping jugs. Work all the way out to the lip of the roof and make a big move out right to a slopey crimp. Most people use the patented feet-cutting bro-burl to hold the swing. The deft use of a heel-toe cam on the flake allows for matching of the crimp and eventual passage to the first headwall. Stay relaxed and rest up for the second crux on a jug sidepull. From here, make your way up to the second roof and pull it using pure dyno-burl or nasty good steeps technique. From here traverse left on jugs to finish up on the same anchors as Blood Raid.

A nice bouldery route that contrasts with its more endurance-oriented neighbors. Start by scrambling up detached blocks at the left end of the cave  and clip the first draw (shared with Against the Grain). Traverse rightwards on a slopey shelf to a scrunched no-hands stance before the first roof.

From here, make a long gaston and crossover to get established in the roof flake. Move efficiently along to the end of the slopey flake and grab a quick shake before the powerful crux.

Cam a heel into the flake, taking careful note of the position of the rope in relation to your leg. Make a long move into a worse-than-it-looks seam, with a non-obvious hand sequence. Desperately thrutch your hands along the seam, remembering to disentangle your foot from the rope, and pump up into an awkward stance in a little capped dihedral.

Traverse right a few feet to a shared stance with Devil Doll. Complete the same finish as Devil Doll, with a couple of engagingly long pulls between good flakes and crimps before the anchor clipping jug at the lip of the cave. A quality route that doesnt see as much traffic as its neighbors.

Climb Blood Raid to the anchor that it shares with Skull Fuck.  Then add the boulder problem to finish at the higher anchor of Burning Cross.

Climb to Skull Fuck anchors, clip one and continue up and slightly right to the Burning Cross anchors. A few small holds and some big reaches guard the top.

The hardest line in the Hole. Climb Lactic Acid Bath (12d) through its undercling crux. Instead of heading right to the good rest on Lactic, traverse leftwards on one of the Hole's signature sloper rails. Make a tall reach into the dead-horizontal roof and traverse into a jug seam with good heel hooks.

Rest up as well as you can on this dangly shakeout and limber up your fast twitch muscles. The good heel hooks and jugs rapidly disappear in the last five feet of the roof . Make a reach around the lip to a crimp and make a core intensive move to match on a similar dog ear crimp.

Flex your abs, cut your feet, and paste your foot on a chip at groin level. Huck from this scrunched position over the lip. A few more moves to the anchors give you time to pop your hernia back in.

A classic Doug Reed route, Blood Raid is one of the finest routes of it's grade at the new. Begin 10 ft. right of Lactic starting on easy moves to gain a ledge below the first of a series of horizontal roofs. Start cruising out the roof on a beautiful pancake flake eventually pulling out onto the face on crimps. Crank up the steep face and pull the final roof making a big move up to a good hold. Keep it together and clip the chain anchors.

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