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South Lake Tahoe Climbing
Authors Chris McNamara
Routes: 250+ (click to see the complete route list)
Difficulty:  5.4-5.13c
Pages: 184 pages
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Edition: 1st Edition, March 2004

South Lake Tahoe offers exquisite year-round climbing for every ability and taste. Trad climbers can jam smooth Yosemite-like cracks at Sugarloaf or Eagle Lake, pull on steep knobs at Phantom Spires, lead their first multi-pitch route at Lover’s Leap. Sport climbers can clip bolts at Luther Rock, Luther Spires and Mayhem Cove. This book focuses on some of the highest quality granite in the Sierra.

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Complete List of Included Climbs
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Hogsback Knapsack Crack
3
5.5
Hogsback Manic Depressive Direct
2
5.5
Lower Buttress The Farce
2
5.5
Lower Spire Fire Fly
1
5.5 R
Middle Spire Tyro's Testpiece
1
5.5
Hogsback Wave Rider
2
5.6
Hogsback Deception
3
5.6
Hogsback Harvey's Wallbangers, Center
2
5.6
Upper Spire North Ridge
1
5.6
Midway Rock Cuspid
1
5.6
Sugarloaf Scheister
3
5.7
Sugarbun Fly Trap
1
5.7 R
West Buttress Cryptogamic
1
5.7
West Buttress Sacrolliac Joint
1
5.7
East Wall Pop Bottle
2
5.7
Hogsback Harvey's Wallbangers, Right
2
5.7
Upper Spire Gingerbread
1
5.7
Phantom Wall, Right Oedipus Rex
1
5.7
East Wall Bear's Reach
3
5.7
Middle Spire Cockabooty
1
5.7
Main Wall Corrugation Corner
3
5.7
Middle Spire Harding's Other Chimney
1
5.7
Middle Spire Rain Song
1
5.7 R
Lower Buttress Surrealistic Pillar
3
5.7
Middle Spire Over Easy
1
5.7
East Wall East Wall
2
5.7
Sugarloaf West Chimney
1
5.8
Sugarloaf Harding's Chimney
1
5.8
Sugarloaf Pony Express
1
5.8
West Buttress The Left Cheek
1
5.8
Sugarloaf Lurch
1
5.8
West Buttress Long Toe
1
5.8
Upper Spire Up for Grabs
1
5.8
Middle Spire Chainsaw Willie
1
5.8 R
Dear John Buttress Brother of John
1
5.8
Dear John Buttress Gods of Plunder
1
5.8
East Wall Preperation H
1
5.8
Middle Spire Regular Route
1
5.8
East Wall Haystack
3
5.8
Midway Rock Cracked Tooth
1
5.8
Lower Buttress The Groove
2
5.8
East Wall East Crack
3
5.8
Middle Spire Hard Up
1
5.9
Middle Spire Anal Sex
1
5.9 R
East Wall Psychedelic Tree
4
5.9
Sugarloaf Morticia
1
5.9
West Buttress Middle Toe
1
5.9
Main Wall Traveler Buttress
4
5.9
West Buttress Pickin' It
1
5.9
Middle Spire Slowdancer
1
5.9
West Buttress Scratchin'
1
5.9
Upper Spire Jugs Revisited
1
5.9
Hogsback Deception Direct
3
5.9
Upper Spire East Face
1
5.9
Upper Spire Fear of Flying
1
5.9
East Wall The Line
3
5.9
Middle Spire Corn Flakes
1
5.9
Sugarloaf The Fang
1
5.9
Lower Spire Jack Corner
1
5.9
Main Wall Blue Cab
1
5.9
Sugarloaf Farley
3300
5.9
Midway Rock Gumline
1
5.9
Middle Spire Lean and Mean
1
5.9
East Wall Fantasia
3
5.9 R
East Wall Scimitar
3
5.9 R
East Wall End of The Line
1
5.10c
Lower Buttress Sinbad-Herbert
2
5.10b
Upper Spire Necklace Traverse
1
5.10d
Main Wall Tombstone Terror
1
5.10c
West Buttress Short Toe
1
5.10b
West Buttress Sciatica
1
5.10d
Central Wall Eagle Buttress, Right
5
5.10a
Upper Spire T-Bone
1
5.10d
Upper Spire Robert's Crack
1
5.10d
Middle Spire Candyland
1
5.10c
East Wall Labor of Love
1
5.10a
The Blocks The Bowling Ball
1
5.10b
The Blocks Blue Note
1
5.10b
Upper Spire Burnt Offerings
1
5.10d
The Blocks My Favorite Thing
1
5.10d
West Wall Hospital Corner
2
5.10a
Central Wall Roofer Madness
2
5.10d
Lower Spire Five Tendons
1
5.10d
Lower Buttress Surrealistic Pillar Direct
1
5.10b
Upper Spire Crispy Critters
1
5.10a
Upper Spire Char Broiled
1
5.10d
Upper Spire Desperado Roof Var.
1
5.10b
West Buttress Knobelty
1
5.10b
Sugarloaf Hyperspace
1
5.10b
Sugarloaf Dominion
1
5.10a
Sugarbun Wintergreen
1
5.10c
Midway Rock Gingivitis
1
5.10d
Sugarloaf Stone
1
5.10a R
Sugarloaf Fat Merchant's Crack
1
5.10a X
Sugarloaf TM's Deviation
1
5.10a
Sugarbun Dirty Dog
1
5.10b
Sugarloaf Blue Velvet
1
5.10c
Sugarbun Mad Dog
1
5.10d
Sugarloaf The Fracture
1
5.10d
Sugarbun Fingerlock
1
5.10b
Sugarloaf Crushed Velvet
1
5.10c
Lost John Turning Point
1
5.10b
Midway Rock Plumbline
1
5.10d
Sugarbun Make That Move Now Baby
1
5.10d
Midway Rock Toothpick
1
5.10d
Lizard Head Lounge Lizard
1
5.10c
Sugarloaf South Summit Bolt Ladder
1
5.10a
Middle Spire Penny Candy
1
5.10a
Main Wall Stem Meister
1
5.10a
West Wall Arctic Breeze
1
5.10a
Main Wall Fish Supper
1
5.10a
Main Wall The Prow
1
5.10a
Middle Spire Fancy Dancin'
1
5.10b
West Wall Magnum Force
1
5.10b
Middle Spire The Prow
1
5.10
Black Beauty Wall Velvet Gloves
1
5.10b
Spectrum Tower Avoidance
1
5.10b
West Wall The Gamoke
1
5.10b
Dear John Buttress Hushed Passage
1
5.10c
Main Wall Spud Crack
1
5.10c
Lower Spire Last Lock-up
1
5.10c
Wrights Lake Triple Bat Crack
1
5.10d
Black Beauty Wall Lusty Vicar
1
5.10d
Main Wall The Infinite
1
5.10d
Middle Spire Candass
1
5.10d
Sugarloaf Gallows Pole
1
5.11b
Sugarloaf The Man Who Fell to Earth
1
5.11b
The Blocks French Letter
1
5.11a
Dear John Buttress Skism
1
5.11c
Sugarloaf Opus 7
1
5.11d
Upper Spire Golden Brown
1
5.11d
Lost John Whole Slot of Trouble
1
5.11d
Upper Spire Holy Smoke
1
5.11c
Sugarloaf Only the Young Die Brave
1
5.11c
Upper Spire Sizzler
1
5.11b
Upper Spire Cabin Fever
1
5.11b/d
Upper Spire Harrison Direct
1
5.11b
Sugarloaf Expresso
1
5.11a
Upper Spire Well Done
1
5.11d
Upper Spire Lesbian Love
1
5.11c
Upper Spire Steppin' Stone
1
5.11a
Sugarloaf Sugar Daddy
1
5.11c
Lizard Head Dewlap
1
5.11d
Sugarloaf Taurus
1
5.11b
Sugarloaf Telesis
1
5.11b
Lizard Head North Face
1
5.11c
Sugarloaf Ziplock
1
5.11d
Sugarbun Dog FIght
1
5.11c
Lower Buttress Beer Can Direct
1
5.11a
Dear John Buttress Rehab
1
5.11a
Dear John Buttress Sea Slug
1
5.11a
Main Wall Boothill
1
5.11a
Lower Buttress A Boy and His Arête
1
5.11a
Wrights Lake Slopey Saucers
1
5.11b
East Wall East Corner
2
5.11b
Sugarloaf Talking Heads
1
5.11b
Black Beauty Wall Triple Decker
1
5.11b
Phantom Wall, Right Eraser Head
1
5.11b
Middle Spire Leaner and Meaner
1
5.11b
Spectrum Tower Ultraviolet
1
5.11b
Phantom Wall, Right Dr. Jeckel and Mr. Hyde
1
5.11b
Dear John Buttress Stony End
1
5.11c
Dear John Buttress God of Thunder
1
5.11c
Phantom Wall, Right Electra
1
5.11c
West Wall Main Line
1
5.11c
West Wall Anesthesia
1
5.11c
West Wall Nirvana
1
5.11c
Main Wall Yankee Dog
1
5.11c
Dear John Buttress Drug Crazed
1
5.11c
Spectrum Tower Spanish Flamethrower
1
5.11c
Main Wall The Fin
1
5.11c or 5.10b A0
Lower Spire The Siren
1
5.11d
Main Wall R.I.P.
1
5.11d
Sugarloaf Birdman
1
5.11d
Black Beauty Wall Essence
1
5.11d
Sugarloaf Captain Fingers
1
5.12c
Sugarloaf The Ghost in the Machine
1
5.12a
Dear John Buttress Fight the Power
1
5.12b/c
Sugarloaf Cry Uncle
1
5.12a R
Sugarloaf Grand Delusion
1
5.12d
Lower Buttress Pillar of Society
1