Climb up some easy crack/flake moves to the high first bolt. Place some gear with long slings if desired. Head up & left, placing another piece or two through the finger crack for a few moves, and traverse further left to gain a ledge with bolts and cool face climbing to the anchors.

Scrooge McDuck

Gyro Gearloose

Hollow Bones

Daphne Duck

Daisy Duck

Douglas

Two Hummingbirds

Pintail Duck

Huey Duck

The Rib

Donald Duck

The Nest

Launchpad McQuack

Dewey Duck

Louie Duck

Dewey Duck climbs a fun, wide crack with some varied terrain. Down low, smaller gear can be used, and the last half requires #4s and a #5. Much of the wider crack up top can be avoided by using face holds in certain spots. Tape up!

Start on a low pillar feature that leads to a big ledge about 25' up. Clip a high bolt off the ledge, and work left then back right to surmount the tricky bulge. Continue up steepening rock to a rest below the final, exposed arete feature. Grab "The Brick", and finish rightward to the anchors.

Start up the featured and vertical face, placing a 0.5 to get to the first bolt. Really fun climbing gets you to a no hands rest. Place gear as desired on the way up and right to an arete/groove. Clip a 2nd bolt, and pull another cruxy move. The intended line is climbed on the right side of the arete, and the bolt is placed to suggest so; however, it's still possible to climb left with an easier sequence. Either way feels in line with the route, with the right option being on better rock. Look for smaller gear in a horizontal if desired (nice to protect a toprope). Scramble up and slightly left to a bolted face. If you place gear to get you to the next bolt, be sure to have some double length slings. The next bolt is a little ways, but the climbing is easy. Crimp and smear your way up an intermittent seam. Look for a good, small, and necessary nut placement on your way. It has sustained, challenging, and excellent climbing to the chains.

The meat of the climbing on this is excellent and on great rock. Too bad there is a large ledge in the middle breaking it up.

Cruise up the lower blocky section, and head for the clean hand crack in the middle of the route. After the hand crack, traverse to the right underneath an overhang with some crumbly rock. Continue straight up to the anchors shared with

Huey Duck

.

Climb the center of the huge slab following intermittent cracks and overlaps. This is a fantastic wall for beginners. Midway anchor allows for rapping with a 60 meter rope. There are numerous variations, and the pro can be somewhat tricky with flaring cracks.

Climb the right side of the huge slab clipping some bolts and placing some gear if you feel like it.

The base of this slab had the biggest Douglas fir tree I have ever seen, nearly 100' tall. An ode to the tree - F#@k you, Terry Barton.

This is quality and varied trad climb with back-to-back cruxes. Start in a right-facing dihedral, and climb to intermittent cracks on the face above. Traverse left to the large corner system, and prep for some hard jamming, followed by a campus style traverse left out the roof. Gain a hand crack, aiming for the 2 foot long finger crack above. Exciting, steep pulls on great holds gets you to the top.

Climb the corner. Set a natural anchor or directional 10-15 feet right of the 2 bolt anchor.

It is in Jason Haas' S Platte guidebook - Thunder / Turkey edition.

Climb up an easier blocky section down low to gain the bottom of a clean, chocolate-colored dihedral capped by a small roof. Stem up to the roof, and move straight left (crux) under it to the splitter finger crack. When the crack ends, move left and finish on

Daphne Duck

to the anchors.

Climb some patina and a bit of funky rock with tricky pro in addition to two bolts up to an awesome, overhanging, pumpy finish. For extra bonus points, climb the "Iron Skillet Traverse" another 15 feet to the right from the cold shuts & up to another set of anchors.

Start up blocky terrain to the left of the main corner crack (avoiding the big bush). Climb rightward to the main dihedral, and continue up the widening corner.

Begin up the crack/corner to the right of

Gyro Gearloose

, and continue up the corner after a short ledge. You will soon look to the left for the start of a steeper 0.5/0.75 crack. Place good gear, and pull through this bulge with gymnastic moves to a good stance. Continue with enjoyable, steep feeling movement through the next 10 feet (the 2nd crux). Tricky and iffy gear protects this section. If none of it holds, it could be a not-so-great fall. Look for good and key gear to the left after leaving the nest. Finish at the anchor for

GG

.

Some funky fins get you past the overhang down low. Head rightward to the second bolt, and continue straight up through two more overhangs with the crux at the top.

Some easy moves get you to the first bolt and an awkward move to skirt the mini-roof. Continue up the low angle ramp to the roof with a crack running through it. Bust over the roof, and finish up the sequential & sustained face above.

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