Dark Matter climbs better than it looks. Climb the black water streak using crack and features. You need gear for the bottom, the rest is bolted.

Note: a 6Om rope just makes it to the ground.

Dark Matter

Footprints On The Moon

Mr. Magnetar

W.I.M.P.

Restaurant At The End Of The Universe

Climb just right of a dirty crack left of

Dark Matter

. The crux is the bulge.

Start with some easier climbing, clip the 1st 2 bolts, and work your way up the overhanging face, the crux. Then follow steep slab with some thin moves.

Climb left of a water streak, follow an arête, lower and upper. At the 6th bolt, you can move right, which avoids the crux. Climbing near the last bolt is the crux.

This is a toprope climb right of

Dark Matter

. Flip your rope just right of a bulge, climb the face staying right of dark water streak, and join

Dark Matter

at a slab. W.I.M.P. = weakly interacting, massive particles. I wish this climb was legal to bolt. If it was farther away from DM, this would be a great bolted climb.

Io climbs the 1st bolted line on the wall. It is 4 feet left of a dirty crack.

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Routes in 3. Astronomy Wall