The setting, steepness, and variety of climbing styles on this route put it among the top three 11s at Ten Sleep.  A bouldery crux between bolts 3 & 4, leads to another 10 bolts of brilliant climbing.  Keep your eyes open for the cool mono pockets and fossils on this route up high.

Joy of Heresy

SassyKat Superstar

Happy Pants

Ocean of Terror

Ignorant Bliss

Fin du Monde

Atheist Childhood

Holy War

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Bazooka Face

Take No Prisoners

July Jihad

Unsubstantiated Propaganda

Born Again

Smarty Pants

The Religious Right

The Last Starfighter

Shaared

Sustained pocket pulling. Excellent as part of the warmup for the other routes at the cliff.

Start in the pit to the left of Bazooka Face. Giant holds under the rooof lead to giant hold over the roof (like a superstar) with a big SassyKat toss to more giant holds. Do this route meow!

New route, FA done September 2016. Giant pulls off good pockets then gaston your way to the anchors. Stickclip the first bolt.

An interesting outing on the Ark after you've climbed all of the other fantastic routes here.  This route doesn't see much traffic, so don't expect the holds to be chalked, ticked or obvious.  A fun, thin, and crimpy sequence down low leads to enjoyable, albeit dirty 10- jug pulling at the top.

At the end of the world.....er....Ark, you will find this gem. Take the leap off the boulder to reach the starting jug and finesse your way up the slightly over hanging arete to easier climbing above.

starts in the crack leading to jugs, crimpy and reachy around the 7th to 8th bolt before jugging out again to the chains.  little dirty around the 4th and 5th bolt.

Sustained pocket climbing and a crux above the small roof.

easy 11 climbing to a boulder problem crux at the lip. The bottom half has a tall reach that may be a challenge for shorter climbers. Although sandy and dusty, the rock is bottom half of the route is better than it looks from the deck. The third bolt can be stick clipped from the adjacent boulder.

Start on Holy War, but cross over to the side pull and into the two hand undercling to the left. The enter into the first boulder problem. Rest. Breathe and then tackle the second boulder problem. Burley!

Easy climbing up the right facing flake on the right side of the ark, leads to a traverse on rusted iron color pockets up to a cool undercling.  Blast up and over the roof here, making a hard move before the next bolt.   Save some juice for 3 more bolts to the chains on thin pockets and crimps.

Easy climbing up the flake leads to easy 12 climbing through the roof.  Awesome jugs at the lip of the roof leads to thin crimpy/pocketed climbing up high.

this is the extension to Atheist Childhood.  get a good rest at the first set of anchors and push through the next 3 bolts.

Technical arrêt climbing. Stick clip the first bolt.

Start on Born Again and head right when the bolt line splits. The next section on climbing is more sustained then climbing Born Again, ending on solid 11+ climbing on an amazing arete.

This is the farthest most right route on the Ark proper identified by the three fixed draws high up on the route.  Start up the right facing crack, hand traverse out brown rust colored pockets then angle right toward the fixed draws.

A dandy of a route that is on par with the other fine routes on the Ark. Shaared climbs a shallow dihedral with cool position, laybacks, ring locks and iron chert crimps.

You'll encounter two cruxes, but save your technique for the last few moves before the chains.

Thanks to Aaron Huey for shaaring his anchor bolts with the FA team.

Joy of Heresy

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