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Backside-The Shield
About Backside-The Shield:
| The section immediately to the left of The News Wall. Follow the blue trail from the backside, section goes from the big access crack on the left, and ways over to the left. You can easily access all routes from the base of the back face. The routes here can also be accessed by walking over the top of the dome, stay to the left of the boulders, find a tree right by a flake. Descend flake, down onto large ledge. You can walk back and forth here to reach the tops of most climbs, including several rap stations. Large chances for 30' whippers, most routes require 2 ropes just to descend. |
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| Rock Type: | Granite |
| Type of Climbing: | Sport/Trad |
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Routes
Sequence Sequence numbers indicate the left (L) to right (R) order of the routes. |
Rating | Route | Difficulty | Ascents |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 |
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Amazing Gravy | 5.11c | 2 |
| 0 |
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Baba Wawa | 5.7 | 2 |
| 0 |
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Carpet Crawl | 5.10a | 1 |
| 0 |
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Eden | 5.11d | 1 |
| 0 |
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fly on a windshield | 5.10a | 11 |
| 0 |
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God's Elastic Acre | 5.11d | 1 |
| 0 |
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Gravitron | 5.11d | 4 |
| 0 |
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Itty Bitty Black Streal | 5.12c | 1 |
| 0 |
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Matrimonio Feliz | 5.12c | 0 |
| 0 |
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Real Gravy | 5.11b | 6 |
| 0 |
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Sixth Happiness | 5.12a | 0 |
| 0 |
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terminal orogeny | 5.10c | 3 |
| 1 |
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Deep Prok (5) | 5.8 | 14 |
| 1 |
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Edge Of Night | 5.8 | 6 |
| 1 |
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Mexican Radio | 5.12a | 4 |
| 1 |
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Nobody Likes Bryan Gumbel | 5.9 | 3 |
| 1 |
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Proks | 5.7 | 1 |
| 1 |
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Pummel Jenga | 5.11b | 2 |
| 1 |
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Runamuck | 5.7 | 10 |
| 1 |
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Stranger than Friction | 5.10b | 21 |
| 1 |
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Texas Radio (4) | 5.11c | 2 |
| 1 |
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The French Route | 5.11a | 11 |
| 6 |
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Bold Talk For a One-Eyed Fat Man | 5.10d | 1 |
