Scout's Honor

Scout’s Honor serves as an excellent testpiece for both drytooling ethics and overhang-climbing technique:  Scout’s Honor’s two consecutive short and sweet overhanging boulder problems never use any holds on pre-existing 5.7 routes nearby like Wolf Cub or Eagle Scout.

For the first section, ethical climbers’ feet should only use graffiti-rock (starting almost a meter off the ground) in order to conscientiously respect ecology.  Beginners can flail and scratch away at the graffiti as positive public service while they improve enough to awkwardly climb the slightly overhanging face with few holds - all under the safety and comfort of a top rope anchor at an easily accessible area - before applying these advantageous skills in a more remote and pristine mountaineering environment.

The ledge provides helpful rest before attacking the much more severe second overhang.  Crux: use ample holds to pull over the spine atop the overhang.  Do not cheat your feet left toward Wolf Cub, stay on-route as the picture indicates, and rally some honor for the fight up and over the overhang to the anchor.

Like the start to Plymouth Scout and Wolf Cub but 15 feet farther to the right on the next rock over on the other side of a small aspen tree, Scout’s Honor’s first boulder is also vandalized by grey graffiti on the left side of the Main Area.

2 different single bolt anchors available above.