Tornado Alley
Description
[Edit]Tornado Alley is an excellent crag with a large variety of difficulties and styles. The wall offers a number of great lines in the 12+ and above range on steep swells, as well as a few technical slabs, and even one of the canyon's few crack routes.
The wall faces East, so receives morning sun and evening shade. The crag is in the relatively secluded upper half of the canyon, so this can be a good place to go to avoid crowds.
From Disturbing the Peace's comment below:
Routes from Climbers left to right.
(01) Vortex (5.12c?) - Starts left of the overhanging arete (02) Texas Twister (5.12a) - Climbs the overhanging right leaning arete (03) Revenge of the Little Fingers (5.10b) - The warmup (04) Terror in the Trailerpark (5.10d) - Harder than it looks (05) Gustnado (5.11a) - The best of the easy climbs (06) Spidergrind (5.12a) - Hard and thin pronounced crux (07) Unknown (5.12a) (08) Flying Cows (5.12b) (09) Fujimata (5.12a) - Another good warmup for the harder lines, feel good grade. (10) Unknown (5.12c) - The first really steep line, fun endurance climbing. -This route is the one missing from the photo topos and throws the numbers off past this.- (11) Rolling Thunder (5.13a) - Moderate climbing except for the crux... (12) Never Saw It Coming (5.12d) - More fun endurance oriented climbing (13) Goodbye Double Wide (5.13a) - Might have some loose blocks?? (14) Swept Away (5.12a) - The crag classic! (15) It Sounded Like a Train (5.10c) - Another potential warmup
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