Traverse around the elevator base. Start on either wall that faces east(nearest the entrance doors to the building). Follow the rockery the entire way, until you touch the other side. Not too bad, but it doesn't count until you do the return trip without resting.

Four Corners

Walk Around

South Traverse

Number Cruncher

South Wall

Lorin's Reach

Door Dyno

North Crack

Dihedral

Hand Traverse

The Elevator

Plummer's Crack

North Door

Dyno Traverse

Dyno One

South West Crack

High Exposure

Windows

Statics and Structures

Crimp Master

X marks the spot

North Wall

Work the crack up and out if you choose.

For extra credit: move out completely on the roof crack, and do pullups on your hand jams. We have seen it done!

Walk around the stairwell, on the outside. Fun, and pumpy. You can take a break at the beam after the first section, and climb out there, or continue on. For a bigger pump, hold on to the nearest edge(instead of the edge that would seem easiest to hold on to).

A nice forearm/slab workout. Traverse the roof thingy that covers the men's bathroom windows. No looking inside! For extra points, come all the way back. Note: We have heard of people dynoing from a straight hang up to their feet on the roof. If you can, well, you're a stud.

You may start with your left foot hooked around the edge. Scant feet. Move to the right. Quite painful.

Opposite the North Wall. 10 panels long, but holds are bigger. Nice endurance workout.

Scamble up the pillar. Once at the top, brace yourself and reach up for the window sill. Then dyno up for the handrail three feet higher. Pretty tricky.

Climb up the hinges on the left side of the door. Crimp both hands on the crack running parralell with the top of the door and with your right foot on a hinge dino for the top with both hands. Its a long fall so stick the dyno on your first try or have a good pad.

Another fun crack, this time in a dihedral (I guess). Layback, or work on your wide hand-jamming skills. Look for the doors due north about 40 yards from the elevators.

Climb the corner under the smoker's lounge outside of the revolving doors and top out by the first bike rack.

On the South Wall: The last covered panel on the left side, just left of the circular undercling pocket. No smears with your feet; just work the medium sized holds across.

The climb starts low and about 6 feet from the left pillar. Begin with matched hands at position 1. Then work according to the numbers with left hands on red and right hands on black. Feet anywhere. Hand positioning is that of opening an elevator door, hence the name. Position 6 is a cool thumb move however, where the grab is reversed and the thumb is used to give pressure.

Cross the door on the west end of the north wall. Half the fun is figuring out how to do it.

Start at the west end of the south wall, on the west end of the last covered section of wall. Dyno up and mantle down across the entire wall. It's great practice for dyno weenies (such as myself). Defintely easier for taller people - Lorin (shown here) is 6'2".

This is a short one move problem. The key is solid foot placement. Right foot should be edged on a small indent on the outside right corner and left foot should be wrapped around the left corner. put your right hand behind the wall where it goes up and right at a 45% angle. crimp your left hand in the seam at about chest hight. Dyno or static to the top with your left hand.

Climb the crack up and out. This route is south and west about 15 yards from the stairs.

This is a fun, and a little bit exposed, high-ball problem.

Climb the corner, and reach into a positive crack underneath the roof. Stretch out and up to the window sill. Most people wuss out at this point. Check your nads, and reach out to the face. Follow up, and then move right over the airy traverse. Hint: For the transfer up to the sill, look for a nice little notch for your foot on the face.

Traverse the two windows on the east end of the north wall.

A glue-up under the stairs at the right side at the west entrance. Some of the holds have been removed. I don't know if it is even climbable or what the rating would be if it was. Clearly glue-ups are a no-no, but since this one is already here, we might as well climb it, right?

This problem is on the North Wall, at the end of the 4th panel(from the West). Really crimpy, there's no big holds.

This problem is on the south wall in the bouldering area mand is marked with small X's.  It starts from a sit in the middle of the third section from the right.  It works up an ends on a jug above the first concrete strip on the second section from the right.  Look carefully for all the X's as they can be hard to see.  I'm not experienced at rating so that V2 is just a guess.  If you are under 6 ft, this problem may seem quite a bit harder.  All in all, it is a pretty fun problem with some interesting moves.

Traverse the entire North Wall, through all 8 panels and around each pillar. Panels 3 and 5 (from the West) are the hardest).

Ben: Just traversing the first panel (combining the door problem and then traversing the rest of the panel) is about V2.  The entire North Wall requires excellent endurance.

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