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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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Formation Route Name Review
Hogsback Knapsack Crack
3
5.5
Lower Buttress The Farce
2
5.5
Hogsback Manic Depressive Direct
2
5.5
Middle Spire Tyro's Testpiece
1
5.5
Lower Spire Fire Fly
1
5.5 R
Hogsback Deception
3
5.6
Hogsback Wave Rider
2
5.6
Upper Spire North Ridge
1
5.6
Hogsback Harvey's Wallbangers, Center
2
5.6
Midway Rock Cuspid
1
5.6
Main Wall Corrugation Corner
3
5.7
Lower Buttress Surrealistic Pillar
3
5.7
Sugarloaf Scheister
3
5.7
Upper Spire Gingerbread
1
5.7
Middle Spire Over Easy
1
5.7
East Wall East Wall
2
5.7
Hogsback Harvey's Wallbangers, Right
2
5.7
Phantom Wall, Right Oedipus Rex
1
5.7
East Wall Pop Bottle
2
5.7
Sugarbun Fly Trap
1
5.7 R
West Buttress Cryptogamic
1
5.7
West Buttress Sacrolliac Joint
1
5.7
Middle Spire Cockabooty
1
5.7
Middle Spire Rain Song
1
5.7 R
Middle Spire Harding's Other Chimney
1
5.7
East Wall Haystack
3
5.8
Sugarloaf Harding's Chimney
1
5.8
Sugarloaf Pony Express
1
5.8
East Wall Preperation H
1
5.8
East Wall East Crack
3
5.8
Lower Buttress The Groove
2
5.8
Sugarloaf Lurch
1
5.8
Upper Spire Up for Grabs
1
5.8
Middle Spire Regular Route
1
5.8
Dear John Buttress Brother of John
1
5.8
Midway Rock Cracked Tooth
1
5.8
Sugarloaf West Chimney
1
5.8
West Buttress The Left Cheek
1
5.8
West Buttress Long Toe
1
5.8
Middle Spire Chainsaw Willie
1
5.8 R
Dear John Buttress Gods of Plunder
1
5.8
East Wall The Line
3
5.9
Main Wall Traveler Buttress
4
5.9
Upper Spire Fear of Flying
1
5.9
East Wall Fantasia
3
5.9 R
East Wall Scimitar
3
5.9 R
Sugarloaf Farley
3300
5.9
Upper Spire Jugs Revisited
1
5.9
Middle Spire Lean and Mean
1
5.9
Hogsback Deception Direct
3
5.9
Sugarloaf The Fang
1
5.9
Sugarloaf Morticia
1
5.9
Middle Spire Slowdancer
1
5.9
Middle Spire Corn Flakes
1
5.9
Lower Spire Jack Corner
1
5.9
Main Wall Blue Cab
1
5.9
East Wall Psychedelic Tree
4
5.9
Midway Rock Gumline
1
5.9
West Buttress Middle Toe
1
5.9
Middle Spire Hard Up
1
5.9
Middle Spire Anal Sex
1
5.9 R
West Buttress Pickin' It
1
5.9
West Buttress Scratchin'
1
5.9
Upper Spire East Face
1
5.9
Main Wall Tombstone Terror
1
5.10c
Sugarloaf The Fracture
1
5.10d
Middle Spire Candyland
1
5.10c
Lower Buttress Surrealistic Pillar Direct
1
5.10b
Central Wall Eagle Buttress, Right
5
5.10a
Sugarbun Fingerlock
1
5.10b
Sugarbun Make That Move Now Baby
1
5.10d
Sugarloaf Blue Velvet
1
5.10c
Sugarloaf Crushed Velvet
1
5.10c
Sugarloaf Dominion
1
5.10a
Sugarloaf TM's Deviation
1
5.10a
Sugarloaf Hyperspace
1
5.10b
Lizard Head Lounge Lizard
1
5.10c
Upper Spire Necklace Traverse
1
5.10d
Upper Spire Char Broiled
1
5.10d
Lower Buttress Sinbad-Herbert
2
5.10b
East Wall End of The Line
1
5.10c
East Wall Labor of Love
1
5.10a
Central Wall Roofer Madness
2
5.10d
Sugarloaf South Summit Bolt Ladder
1
5.10a
Sugarloaf Fat Merchant's Crack
1
5.10a X
Lost John Turning Point
1
5.10b
Upper Spire Burnt Offerings
1
5.10d
Upper Spire T-Bone
1
5.10d
Upper Spire Robert's Crack
1
5.10d
The Blocks The Bowling Ball
1
5.10b
The Blocks My Favorite Thing
1
5.10d
Lower Spire Five Tendons
1
5.10d
Sugarbun Mad Dog
1
5.10d
Sugarbun Dirty Dog
1
5.10b
Sugarbun Wintergreen
1
5.10c
Midway Rock Plumbline
1
5.10d
Midway Rock Toothpick
1
5.10d
Midway Rock Gingivitis
1
5.10d
Sugarloaf Stone
1
5.10a R
West Buttress Knobelty
1
5.10b
West Buttress Sciatica
1
5.10d
West Buttress Short Toe
1
5.10b
Upper Spire Desperado Roof Var.
1
5.10b
The Blocks Blue Note
1
5.10b
Upper Spire Crispy Critters
1
5.10a
Main Wall The Prow
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
Black Beauty Wall Velvet Gloves
1
5.10b
West Wall The Gamoke
1
5.10b
West Wall Magnum Force
1
5.10b
Middle Spire The Prow
1
5.10
Middle Spire Fancy Dancin'
1
5.10b
Spectrum Tower Avoidance
1
5.10b
Lower Spire Last Lock-up
1
5.10c
Main Wall Spud Crack
1
5.10c
Dear John Buttress Hushed Passage
1
5.10c
Middle Spire Candass
1
5.10d
Main Wall The Infinite
1
5.10d
Wrights Lake Triple Bat Crack
1
5.10d
Black Beauty Wall Lusty Vicar
1
5.10d
Sugarloaf Taurus
1
5.11b
Sugarloaf Gallows Pole
1
5.11b
Sugarloaf Telesis
1
5.11b
Sugarloaf Sugar Daddy
1
5.11c
Upper Spire Steppin' Stone
1
5.11a
Upper Spire Holy Smoke
1
5.11c
Upper Spire Lesbian Love
1
5.11c
Upper Spire Golden Brown
1
5.11d
Upper Spire Cabin Fever
1
5.11b/d
Upper Spire Sizzler
1
5.11b
Sugarloaf Opus 7
1
5.11d
Sugarloaf Ziplock
1
5.11d
Sugarloaf Expresso
1
5.11a
Sugarloaf The Man Who Fell to Earth
1
5.11b
Lizard Head Dewlap
1
5.11d
Lost John Whole Slot of Trouble
1
5.11d
Upper Spire Harrison Direct
1
5.11b
Sugarbun Dog FIght
1
5.11c
Sugarloaf Only the Young Die Brave
1
5.11c
Lizard Head North Face
1
5.11c
Upper Spire Well Done
1
5.11d
The Blocks French Letter
1
5.11a
Dear John Buttress Skism
1
5.11c
Main Wall Boothill
1
5.11a
Dear John Buttress Rehab
1
5.11a
Lower Buttress Beer Can Direct
1
5.11a
Lower Buttress A Boy and His Arête
1
5.11a
Dear John Buttress Sea Slug
1
5.11a
Phantom Wall, Right Dr. Jeckel and Mr. Hyde
1
5.11b
Spectrum Tower Ultraviolet
1
5.11b
Sugarloaf Talking Heads
1
5.11b
Middle Spire Leaner and Meaner
1
5.11b
Phantom Wall, Right Eraser Head
1
5.11b
Wrights Lake Slopey Saucers
1
5.11b
Black Beauty Wall Triple Decker
1
5.11b
East Wall East Corner
2
5.11b
West Wall Nirvana
1
5.11c
Phantom Wall, Right Electra
1
5.11c
Main Wall The Fin
1
5.11c or 5.10b A0
Spectrum Tower Spanish Flamethrower
1
5.11c
West Wall Anesthesia
1
5.11c
West Wall Main Line
1
5.11c
Dear John Buttress God of Thunder
1
5.11c
Main Wall Yankee Dog
1
5.11c
Dear John Buttress Drug Crazed
1
5.11c
Dear John Buttress Stony End
1
5.11c
Sugarloaf Birdman
1
5.11d
Black Beauty Wall Essence
1
5.11d
Main Wall R.I.P.
1
5.11d
Lower Spire The Siren
1
5.11d
Dear John Buttress Fight the Power
1
5.12b/c
Lower Buttress Pillar of Society
1
5.12a
Sugarloaf Captain Fingers
1
5.12c
Sugarloaf The Ghost in the Machine
1
5.12a
Sugarloaf Grand Delusion
1
5.12d
Sugarloaf Cry Uncle
1
5.12a R
Spectrum Tower Infrared
1
5.12a
Sugarloaf The Mini Illusion
1
5.12
Black Beauty Wall Spanish Inquisition
1
5.12b
Sugarloaf Beast of Burden
1
5.12a
Lower Buttress Strawbilly Tango
1
5.12b
Main Wall Silly Willy Crack
1
5.12c
Dear John Buttress Stone Cold Crazy
1
5.12c
Sugarloaf Grand Illusion
1
5.13c
Main Wall Ah NUTTS
1
5.13b
Lizard Head South Face
1
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