Sitting just above Ragged Edges, the Graduate is probably the second most obvious climb in the area. A huge right facing corner with a beautiful streaked slab to its right and rough white rock to its left, the corner literally begs to be climbed. 

  Belay about 20' below the corner and head up across semi-easy 5th class terrain the base of the corner. Some tricky moves under a small roof lead to the corner proper. Follow the corner until a large roof is reached. From here, step left around the corner and climb up easy terrain to a two-bolt anchor. 

  A single rope rappel will bring you back to the base.

The Graduate

Pre skool

Acid Jacks

Walk to School

Pick your poison

Killa Whale

Walk to School is the crack about 40 feet to the left of The Graduate, the 5.10 corner on the left side of the face. Follow the crack up about 50 feet to a wide horizontal slot, traverse right along this slot, past many loose boulders, about 25 feet until the next vertical crack. Head up this crack 10 feet to the anchor.  

  The anchor is a natural thread with multiple slings and a couple aluminum rap rings. A rappel with a single 60m gets you to the ground. If you continue right along the horizontal slot another ten feet instead of heading up to the slings, you could make it to the two-bolt anchor on The Graduate. However you'd have to pull an exposed, poorly protected move or two to get there.

P1 (5.7)-Starts under a roof between a few blocks climb up past a bush and continue to follow the crack to a little ledge belay on gear or sling a small tree.

P2 (5.6)- Follow the same line to the top out of the pillar. Rap station on top to desend to a tree mid way.

Begin 10-20 ft to the right of the graduate and make your way up the slab/face to the base of the climb. Begin up the vertical and slightly overhanging face past four bolts. Pull the sugary roof (easy) and traverse left to the anchor at The Graduate. Optionally, you could traverse under the roof with slightly better rock quality.

Really fun chimney. It has three sections that are all great choices. The far left section has a birthing canal finish which everyone seems to love, the middle option is the basic way to go or on the right is fun chimney section. Hence the name pick your poison

The lower section is easy (5.3) and can be bypassed on the right (class 4). The upper pitch (separately named Money Shark?), kind of it's own gig, has two protection bolts and pro to 4" in 45' of climbing.  Rumored to be about 5.10.

The north-facing, arching roof of Gradute Cliff features at least four climbs: a crack (Walk to School, 5.7) a corner/face climb over a ceiling (The Graduate 5.10) and a pair of sheer slab routes with mixed pro (5.11 and up). The approach is mellow and descent is via rap anchors at the top of each route.

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Routes in Graduate Cliff