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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friendship | V8 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Sit start on a perfect flat jug and a flat crimp right next to it. Raise up and flip to an undercling and move through the difficult slopers and gain the dihedral. Top out on the small ledge. A hand jam well above your head may come in handy. |
| Side Hustle Low | V8 | - | Start on the obvious crescent shaped undercling. Establish your feet and thrutch to the better holds up and left. finish on the arête using hands and feet around the corner. |
| Major League Swing | V8+ | - | Start on a good edge to the right side of the arête and make a big move to a sloping dish around the arête. Utilize a heel hook and small crimps to bust to the lip. Press it out.
FA: Brendan Baars |
| American Badass | V9 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Start under the roof a sloping/flat rail. Move left and upwards to tackle perfectly sculped sloping holds. Tackle the easy but tall finish. |
| Color of Time | V9 | - | A power endurance test piece. Sit start with your hands crossed. Heel hook near your hand and power up right to a sloping ledge. Continue right hand to a decent sloper ledge. Sink a heel on the upper start hold and make a big move to a ledge side pull with an indent. Take a breath and prepare for the crux. Find a way to cross up and over to the next ledge which faces the wrong direction, then adjust your feet holding maximum tension. Bust to the lip saving strength for a topout that could spit you off.
FA: Brendan Baars |
| Games of Chance | V9 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Sit start with both hands on a jug ledge. Head out to the sloper feature, use a heel toe cam and crush the cruxy moves on small crimps, tension and crazy moves. |
| Ghosts and Goblins Low | V9 | - | Sit start on the obvious crimp rail below and to the left of the stand start. A really hard move to a wicked finger slot awaits. Use tape. |
| Gimme That Booty | V9 | - | Sit start way down and right on two separate holds. Climb the 30' long overhanging arête on perfect stone with incredible movement. This is a stunner line and deserves an amazing amount of stars. |
| Lavender and Cream | V9 | - | Start on a good chest height crimp and move straight upwards utilizing a few crimps and possible high heel hook. Beware the dab potential all around you. |
| Locked and Loaded | V9 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | A double undercling stand start leads into 3 vicious moves that end in a dynamic move to the lip. |
| Slapping the Basswood Sit | V9 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Sit start on the big undercling and a left hand crimp. A hard first move leads to a moderate traverse into the hard v6 stand start. |
| Vorpal Blade | V9 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Stand start on crimp pinches. Paste a foot and follow the perfect holds to the knife feature. Continue on up the knife, following the arête all the way to the second landing zone and topout around the corner. |
| Colour of War | V10 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | FA: Julien Gomez |
| The Space Between | V10 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Start on any part of the sloper ledge. Traverse left through funky moves that will test your crimp or shoulder strength dependent on beta. |
| Lost in Violence | V11 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | Stand start above head level with hands really wide in 2 separate crack features. The left hand can be on the lower or upper crack. The right hand only has one very bad place. The first ascentionist used only one pad at the base. Pull on with difficulty and execute a very precise and blind dynamic throw to a sinker jug on the left. Move around the bulbous feature utilizing extreme tension and massive cross off a hand jamb directly into a revolving door. Continue through the decent edges and somehow get to the pure slopers to topout. A knee pad was used for the top by the FA. |