This document provides a list of top rope climbing routes at Trapps Rock with details on how to access each route from nearby lead climbs. It notes the grades of the lead climbs and top rope routes as well as any special considerations, gear needs, or anchor options for safely setting up the top ropes.
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Trapps Toprope List
This document provides a list of top rope climbing routes at Trapps Rock with details on how to access each route from nearby lead climbs. It notes the grades of the lead climbs and top rope routes as well as any special considerations, gear needs, or anchor options for safely setting up the top ropes.
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Trapps Top-Rope List
Lead Climb Top-rope Climbs Accessed Comments
Walk up or Black Fly (5.5) Nice 5.9 Climb (5.9) Big tree for anchor and easy walk-off from or Nice Crack Climb (5.7) Also can toprope numerous top easier nearby climbs Bunny (5.4 or 5.6) Retribution (5.10b) Bolts, super easy to set up Nosedive (5.10b) Double Chin (5.5) Something Scary (5.10a/b) Should work so long as there’s a way to place gear above or a directional Eyebrow (5.6) Double Clutch (5.9+) Tree for anchor Gill’s Boulder Problem (5.12a) Dirty Chimney (5.0) or Apoplexy (5.9) Bolts above Coronary, directional (small Pony Express (5.6-) Coronary (5.10b/c) cam) needed for Apoplexy. Higher up Dirty Junior (5.9+) Chimney for Junior/Laurel bolts. Birch would Laurel (5.7) have to be set up with gear from the top. Birch (5.10d) Squiggles (5.4) or Low Exposure (5.10d)? Big dirty ledge probably needs long runners Crowberry Ridge (5.5) Dislocation (5.9) or static rope to set up Squiggles Direct (5.10b) Devine Wind (5.12a) Jacob’s ladder (5.10b) Uberfall (4th class), Ken’s Hudson’s Boulder Problem Definitely good trees for Charie & Fitschen’s. Crack (5.7), Boston (5.5-), (5.11a) Good gear plus block can be slung above CC Route (5.7-) or BB Susie A (5.10d) Phoebe. The others might need more Route (5.8+) The Hoax (5.11b/c) creative gear from the top. Phoebe (5.10b) Charie (5.10a) Fitschen’s Folly (5.8) Alphabet Arete (5.10d) DD Route (5.10b/c) Harvard (5.2) or Trapped Stirrup Trouble (5.10b) Good tree for P38, but directionals needed. Like a Rat (5.7) or Radcliff P38 (5.10b) Stirrup trouble would need gear from the (4th class) Badcliff (5.10a) top and directionals. Roddy (5.3) Slightly Roddy (5.10b/c) or Might not be worth it variation (5.11d) Jackie (5.5) or Classic Pink Laurel (5.9) Gear anchor or use the bolts atop Jackie and (5.7) or Classy (5.8) a directional at the top RMC (5.5-) Ape Call (5.8) Gear anchor—should work fine for Ape Call Ape and Essence (5.9+) and with a directional or two for Ape & Essence Baby (5.6) or Twisted Fetus (5.9+) Can set up Fetus from bolts with directional. Sister (5.8) or Easy Queasy O (5.10a) Queasy O would be set up on gear from the Overhang (5.1) or Son of Son of Easy O belay. Easy O (5.8) Frog’s Head (5.6-) Hether (5.9) Easy to set up, multiple bolted stations on Pas De Deux (5.8) huge ledge. Might need gear placement for City Lights (5.8-) directional above Hether. Nightfall (5.9) Sundown (5.8+) Kama Sutra (5.12a) Maria Direct (5.9) Maria Redirect (5.11a) Bloody Mary (5.7) Drunkard’s Delight (5.8-) Needs gear to set up. Can set up Morning Five Tendons (5.10b/c) After and Arc of a Diver from top of first Morning After (5.8-) pitch of Bloody Mary. Drunkard’s and Five Arc of a Diver (5.8-) Tendons from traverse at start of second pitch of Bloody Mary. Ribless (5.6) or Ribs (5.4) Vicious Rumors (5.11d) Bolted station + directional Strictly From Nowhere Revenge of the Relics Bolted station (5.7) (5.10a) Epiclepsy (5.10b/c) Gaston (5.8-) Splashtic (5.10a) Both P1s end at same threaded rap station. Will need a directional for Splashtic. Glyptodon (5.7) Nemesis (5.10a) Shared rap station. Glyptodon has a 5.6 R section. Glypnod (5.7) Midnight Cowboy (5.9+) Shared belay station No Recollection (5.10b) Anguish (5.7-) or Simple Ruby Saturday (5.10a) 1st pitch of all three end at same ledge. Gear Ceilings (5.0) anchor. Three Pines (5.3) or Something Boring (5.9) Easy set up from bolts on GT ledge. Could Something Interesting also climb Something or Other, which is 5.7 (5.7+) to GT ledge. More than 100 feet to GT ledge, can belay from above. Birdie Party (5.8+) Interstice (5.10b) Bolted anchor Mother’s Day Party (5.10b) MF (5.9) Overhanging Layback Tough Shift (5.10a) Another bolted anchor (5.7) Co-Op (5.8) or Credibility Welcome to the Gunks More than 100 feet, belay from the tree, not Gap (5.6) (5.10b) from the bottom. Laughing Man (5.11b) Blueberry Ledges (5.5-) Beatle Brow Bulge (5.10a) More than 100 feet, belay from above. Blueberry Wine (5.11a) Needs a directional or two for BB Bulge. Beginner’s Delight (5.3) Octoberfest (5.8+) Bolted anchor + directional or Snooky’s Return (5.7 Friends and lovers (5.9) or 5.8) Finger Locks or Cedar Box Hyjeck’s Horror (5.8) Rap tree for Finger Locks is directly above (5.5), Twin Oaks (5.3) or Delusions of Grandeur (5.9+) Hyjeck’s. Should be an easy walk on ledge Triple Bulges (5.3) over to the top of P1 of Delusions of Grandeur. Unnamed (5.0) Dat-Mantel (5.10b) Use belay tree to set up Dis-Mantel (5.10b) Raunchy (5.8) Wild Horses (5.8) Big belay tree atop Raunchy + directional for Gory Thumb (5.9) Wild Horses. Probably need a gear anchor Badfinger (5.9+) above Gory Thumb & Badfinger V-3 (5.7) Galactic Hitchhikers (5.9+) Bolts and maybe a directional Cakewalk (5.7) Nevermore (5.10b) I’m told you can traverse from Cakewalk to Triangle (5.9-) Never Say Never (5.10c) the NNL bolts but I’m not sure how easy this Never Never Land (5.10a) would be. Can also swing over on rappel to J’Accuse (5.10b) the NNL bolts from the top of Absurdland Welcome to My Nightmare (5.8). (5.10a) Wisecrack (5.6) Blunderbus (5.9) Tree anchor with a directional should do it Thin Slabs (5.6) Sente (5.9-) Set up from ledges midway through first On Any Monday (5.11a) pitch of Thin Slabs, or from tree at top of first pitch. Hans’ Puss (5.6) The Feast of Fools (5.10b) Bolted anchor 50-50 (5.5) or Alpine Obstacle Delusion (5.9) Tree anchor, may need a directional. Big Diversions (5.8) Teeny Face (5.10a) ledge midway up to belay from or belay from Insuhlation (5.9) top. More than 100 feet to ground. Sleepwalk (5.7) Ent Line (5.10d) Bolted anchor Ants’ Line (5.9) Bonnie’s Roof (5.9) The Throne (5.12a) Set up from the optional belay before end of P1? Ursula (5.5) or Groovy Groovy Direct (5.10a) Fixed rap station (5.8+) Space Invaders (5.10d) In the Silly (5.3) Silly Groove (5.10a) Probably best to build gear anchor in middle of In the Silly—or could just do it from rap tree at top, will barely reach Bold-ville (5.8) or Oblique The Winter (5.10d) Bolted anchor above the season climbs Twique (5.8) The Fall (5.11a) The Summer (5.11d) The Spring (5.9) Walk on from start of Wegetables (5.10a) Tree/rap station After the Prick (5.4)