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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nighthawk | V5 | - | Intro to compression. Start on a low vertical rail for the right and incut notch for the left. Slap left to get to the arete and squeeze your way to the top. Hard start.
FA: Charlie Hall |
| Performance Anxiety | V5 | - | Start low on a good jug. Make a big move up and left. Get your heel hooking on to reach a bad crimp. Either be insanely strong and match the crimp or bump your right hand to a sloper dish right below the lip. Figure out your feet and top out.
FA: Chris Myers |
| Polar Sun | V5 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Stand with left hand on jug at arête, right on undercling crimp. Follow arête to top out |
| Put Me In Coach | V5 | - | Start on in-cut edge (left) and right hand on a low crimp by the arête (right). Make a hard first move right hand and work up the arête to reach another edge. Bust to the lip or use a toe hook out left. A difficult mantle top-out awaits you.
FA: Brendan Baars |
| Rogue Pogue | V5 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | There is no safe down climb so bring a rope or a ladder which measures 12+ feet. Bring at minimum 2 pads as this problem measures over 22' vertical from the start. Start holds are the undercling and the rail on either side of the arête, then utilize the whole over hanging face and top out in the centre of it. |
| Sarissa Mastery | V5 | - | Start 8 feet right of Open the Iliad.
FA: Aaron Bopp |
| Silhouette | V5 | - | Slab climbing cannot get much better than this. Start low on your choice of holds and make fancy footwork to reach opposing sidepull crimps. Step your way up and launch for a decent rail right below the lip. Scary and proud this send will be. Photos and video do not do this boulder justice in beauty or size.
FA: Aaron Bopp |
| So Much Pressure | V5 | - | Start on the jug of Performance Anxiety and go immediately right and exit above. |
| The Craw | V5 | - | Stand start on a perfect rail near the crack. Climb up and right on good crimps to topout above. Be careful of the fall zone near the top. Get up there and find the holds on the lip. |
| Time for War | V5 | - | A boulder problem that needed to be climbed. Stand start with the left hand on a good ledge above your head and right hand on the undercling ledge below it. Campus or try to paste a foot to move up and right, utilizing lots of footwork. Decent holds lead to a committing left heel hook for a top-out.
FA: Brendan Baars |
| Treasure Island | V5 | - | Start on a sidepull and a crescent crimp. Climb the arête to the top. |
| Ungnomely | V5 | - | Sit start low on good incuts. Move up to a crimp and sloper and pop for the top |
| What Bugs? | V5 | - | A great compression problem. Start low on a small ledge and right edge. Power up! A low start is entirely feasible for those looking for an easy cleaning job on a boulder that’s very friendly on height and padding.
FA: Adam Page |
| 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. |