The Nooks
Close to Elliot Lake, this bouldering crag was developed by Brendan Baars and features boulders from V0 through V13.
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This guide is very incomplete. Updates will come in as open sources of information are found.
Routes
| Name | Grade ↑ | Star rating | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slapping the Basswood | V6 | - | Stand start with the left hand on the arete and right on a crimp. Slap your way up perfect slopers. It's not over until you hit the lip. |
| Sunday School | V6 | - | A short powerhouse of a problem. Start low on a small ledge and using a left foot low and a high right foot to create opposition, bump your right hand up the sidepull. Move feet and launch for a sloping mailbox slot on top. Mantle it out. A much harder version could potentially be climbed to the right.
FA: Brendan Baars |
| Tessalate | V6 | - | Stand start on a flat big undercling. Move left through a decent crimp and either use the awesome slopers as intermediates or make a big move to the best sloper and then move up and topout. |
| The Astronomer | V6 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Sit start with your hands in a variety of places along the obvious crack feature that turns the corner. Squeeze your way up perfect slopers and gain a massive jug. Take a deep breath and tackle the easy but daunting slab up to the top. Prep and inspect the slab if possible. |
| The Upright Man | V6 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Perfect vertical wall with a line of crimps to follow. A spicy last move may be possible! Start on two crimps right next to each other and follow to the top. |
| The Void | V6 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Start on a perfect juggy sloper rail and tackle the crux by figuring out how to extend far enough to reach the next holds. Establish on the slab and finish up the easy highball. |
| Tripped to the Yard | V6 | - | Sit start with a great left heel hook. Find the two improbable underclings and paste the right foot on a non-existent foot. Stand up and move to better holds and top out.
FA: Brendan Baars |
| Zombie | V6 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Sit start under the left side of the severe overhang on the far left side of the boulder. Start with both hands on a jug and climb the huge sloper feature, traversing right, to topout in the crack feature. |
| Big Toe | V7 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Start on the underside of the overhanging crack pretty far down. Climb the overhang using many underclings and sidepulls. A crux right before the slab will make this fun. The fun stops when your on the slab. Be careful and watch your step. It's a highball people. |
| Burn and Rage | V7 | - | Double toe-hooks? 360 spins? Feet first climb? This thing has all of the funky moves you may hate or love. Either way, an amazing climb on blocky slopers with excellent rock quality.
FA: Brendan Baars |
| Double Bubble | V7 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Start below the double bubble on crimps. Make some techy moves to enter the crack. Continue up the crack feature through interesting moves and hand jams to top out above. |
| Hidden Treasure SDS | V7 | - | Sit start way down and right ton two separate holds. Climb the intro to 'Gimme that Booty' and exit on hidden treasure up the middle of the face. |
| Saving Grace | V7 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | A sick Nooks addition in The Wylds at a new zone. Start on a slanting jug near the ground and climbing into an undercling position. Then Launch for massive sloper. And do a heinously cool topout onto incredibly slopey terrain. Make note, the first ascentionist did not top the cliff. Choosing to jump down instead. So a “top and drop problem. But not really.” |
| State of the Art | V7 | - | Climbs the crimp rail in the middle of the large square face. Utilize a toe-hook and a piano match to get through this vicious crimp crux.
FA: Brendan Baars |
| Strikezone | V7 | - | Far left side of the boulder near the “cave entrance.” Sit start on two small jugs. Make your way up and left with the first 4-5 moves being the crux of the problem revolving around a thrutchy throw to a good crimp halfway up. Bust right after the crux and keep it together as you make moves with the tree at your back. Top of the boulder is a jug.
FA: Steve Taylor |