The Nooks

Close to Elliot Lake, this bouldering crag was developed by Brendan Baars and features boulders from V0 through V13.

Guidebooks

Guidebook

Admin notes

This guide is very incomplete. Updates will come in as open sources of information are found.

Conditions

Drying
🌫️ Haze🌡️ 18.2°C💨 17.0 km/h S💧 98%
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Routes

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    NameGrade ↑Star ratingDescription
    NighthawkV5-
    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 AnxietyV5-
    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
    Put Me In CoachV5-
    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
    Sarissa MasteryV5-
    Start 8 feet right of Open the Iliad. FA: Aaron Bopp
    SilhouetteV5-
    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
    Time for WarV5-
    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
    UngnomelyV5-
    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
    Mrs. ButtersworthV6-
    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
    Sunday SchoolV6-
    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
    TessalateV6-
    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.
    Tripped to the YardV6-
    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
    Burn and RageV7-
    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
    State of the ArtV7-
    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
    StrikezoneV7-
    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