The Nooks
Close to Elliot Lake, this bouldering crag was developed by Brendan Baars and features boulders from V0 through V13.
Guidebooks
Admin notes
This guide is very incomplete. Updates will come in as open sources of information are found.
Routes
| Name | Grade ↑ | Star rating | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wrap Around | V5 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Start on the left side of the short boulder. Hands just right of the crack on the face. Traverse the lip to the right on slopers and make it to the jug. Top out by keep moving up the arête. |
| 7 Minutes in Heaven | V6 | - | Start on the two lowest incut-ish crimps. Make your way up and slightly left. This climb is deceivingly easy until you try it. |
| Arctic Halo | V6 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Sit Start down and left on a slanting crimp rail. Get off the ground and immediately enter the crux by traversing to the right using underclings, heel hooks, and slopers. Get around to the corner and tackle the big but oddly graspable holds on the arête to the top. |
| Blind Attack | V6 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Crouch start/stand on left and right arete pretty low. Left hand has a decent incut thing and the right is underneath a seam. |
| Chainsaws Akimbo | V6 | ⭐⭐⭐ | Start underneath the roof very low in the vertical crack and work through the awesome crack feature to meet a crux pulling the roof! |
| Dying Breed | V6 | - | Stand start on crimps. Make a few heinous moves to a sloper rail. Traverse left to topout. |
| Halfway to Booty | V6 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Start on the mega jug horn underneath and in the middle of the severe overhang. Make a big move to the lip and work the arête left and copout on the fin. |
| Mrs. Buttersworth | V6 | - | Climb the arête from a sit start utilizing small crimps, big moves, and the splits. Start with left hand pinching the arête and right hand on your choice of crimps. Move up and right, establishing your feet in a split position and figure out how to get over the bulge.
FA: Brendan Baars |
| Shakes and Stutters | V6 | - | Start on two crimps at about head height. Move right, traversing into performance anxiety and topout. |
| 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. |