What About Bob Wall

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Grade	Trad	Mixed	Sport	Total
5.7	10	1	22	33

Directions to What About Bob Wall

This wall is on private property. Be respectful. Sign required waivers.

From SH parking lot walk towards the old approach trail, opposite end of the parking lot from the Gallery, Volunteer Wall approach trail. Take the right trail and walk till you cross a stream. After you cross the stream you will see a trail heading up left. Follow this up. The 1st trail on your right(just cut and not racked so its hard to see) will take you to WS-FD. The second(not finished but will be soon) trail on the right will lead to G-OR.The left branch will take you the the remainder of the routes. All other walls listed on this side can be approach by following the cliff line trail left. Alternate, easier approaches from the parking lot will be given for each wall.

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Route	Spray	Name	Type	Grade	User Stars	Length	Picture
0 0a	-1	The Phoenix	Sport	28 5.11d	4.00 (3)	50 50ft	1
1 0b	-1	King Solomon	Sport	32 5.12b	4.00 (3)	50 50ft	1
2 1	-1	Farewell Drive with a Spit in the Eye	Trad	24 5.11a		50 50ft	1
3 2	-1	Stuck Buckeye	Trad	11 5.8		75 75ft	1
4 3	-1	Threat Level Blue	Sport	14 5.9	2.09 (35)	35 35ft	0
5 4	-1	Cultural Wasteland	Trad	14 5.9	2.33 (3)	35 35ft	0
6 5	-1	Stem Cell	Sport	17 5.10a	2.40 (20)	55 55ft	0
7 6	-1	Tobacco Crack Ho	Trad	11 5.8	1.50 (2)	45 45ft	0
8 7	-1	Tumble Dry Low	Sport	32 5.12b	4.00 (2)	45 45ft	0
9 8	-1	Weathertop Stings	Sport	18 5.10b	2.89 (28)	45 45ft	1
10 9	-1	Optical Rectitus	Sport	24 5.11a	4.00 (20)	50 50ft	0
11 10	-1	Hole	Trad	11 5.8	1.83 (6)	40 40ft	0
12 11	-1	Maximus	Trad	14 5.9	2.00 (9)	40 40ft	1
13 12	-1	Gluteus	Trad	14 5.9	2.20 (5)	45 45ft	0
14 12a	-1	Hirsute	Sport	-1 Grade Unknown		60 60ft	0
15 12b	-1	Running in Place	Sport	-1 Grade Unknown		40 40ft	0
16 12c	-1	Gild the Lily	Sport	-1 Grade Unknown		50 50ft	0
17 12d	-1	Pongosapien	Sport	28 5.11d	3.75 (4)	50 50ft	0
18 13	-1	Open Project - What About Bob Wall	Sport	-1 Grade Unknown		0 0ft	1
19 14	-1	Kentucky Flu	Sport	20 5.10c	4.26 (61)	80 80ft	1
20 15	-1	Adventures of the Leper Nurse	Trad	14 5.9	3.85 (26)	50 50ft	1
21 16	-1	Code Red	Sport	35 5.12d	3.00 (1)	80 80ft	1
22 17	-1	Duputyren's Release	Sport	32 5.12b	4.00 (1)	80 80ft	1
23 18	-1	GSW	Sport	31 5.12a	4.00 (1)	80 80ft	0
24 19	-1	Drip Wire	Sport	24 5.11a	3.00 (3)	80 80ft	0
25 20	-1	Dr Synchro	Sport	31 5.12a	5.00 (1)	95 95ft	1
26 20b	-1	Brass Gunkie	Mixed	19 5.10	4.00 (1)	100 100ft	1
27 21	-1	No Sleep Till Campton	Sport	18 5.10b	4.24 (70)	80 80ft	1
28 22	-1	Alternative Medicines	Trad	8 5.7	3.52 (31)	75 75ft	1
29 22a	-1	The Speed of Enzo	Sport	20 5.10c	2.50 (10)	60 60ft	1
30 23	-1	Brothel Doc	Sport	24 5.11a	3.21 (24)	75 75ft	1
31 24	-1	Kindred Spirits	Trad	24 5.11a	2.75 (4)	60 60ft	0
32 25	-1	Bowling Pain	Sport	27 5.11c	3.82 (11)	80 80ft	1

Comments

7 comments {add your own comments}

gladhander said on October 22nd, 2006

If you can't find the climbs you can just go to RIVAL WALL(which is easier to find) and follow the wall to the right as you face it. It's a short, easy walk to Bowling Pain.

SCIN said on November 25th, 2006

Parking Area GPS Coordinates: Latitude 37.65139, Longitude 83.71667

JR said on September 3rd, 2007

I heard a rumor that the sport routes on these walls were going to have stiffer grades than Muir valley. After sampling some on the routes I suspect this was more than a rumor.

Lander said on July 7th, 2008

what about pile?

Josephine said on July 8th, 2008

the approach trail goes through a hornet's nest. all 3 members of our party were stung. on the return we bushwhacked through the rhodos to avoid that area. might be worthwhile to hike up to Rival Wall to avoid that issue.

RRO said on July 8th, 2008

hmmm, quite a few routes there are concensus high ratings and are def not piles. if you went right, those routes kinda suck. maybe you need some new slab shoes.....

Anonymous said on April 11th, 2019

Power line down as you pass Trailhead and get to the parking lot of sore heel.

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