Start up a short, overhanging dihedral with cool bouldery moves to the first bolt on great rock. Crank powerful moves from the first bolt to a good crimp rail at the second bolt. Climb through the lesser quality rock to the third and fourth bolts. (For the FA, Nat did not climb to the "poop hole" on Pegasus and instead stayed right adding some more pump factor. Others have since climbed it going to the Pegasus poop hole and clipping the silver (unpainted) link-up bolt/hanger between Pegasus and the top of Centaur--this way is much easier as it allows for a great rest before the final pumpy move into the dihedral.)One last pumpy move gets you into the bottom of the featured scooped & pooped dihedral. Easy, fun climbing on cool features through the scooped dihedral leads to a ledge and neat angling chimney feature to the anchors.

Centaur

Cyclops

Ogopogo

Bandersnatch

Hippalectryon

Kraken

Predator

Grendal

Chupacabra

Werepig

Mike Wazowski (of Monsters Inc.)

Godzilla Meets Bambi

Swamp Thing

Cerberus

Cookie Monster

Pegasus

Monster Slayer

Caliban

Scuttlebutt

Stay Puft

Jeckyll and Hyde

Scream Queen

Mighty Mouse

Overhanging and sustained. If you don't have the strength of a horse, you just might wish you could sprout some wings.

Very fun route (with a single big brown eye right in the middle) The close first three bolts should keep you from decking.

Starts on a short overhang. Fun slab crux up high.

Overhanging 5.10+ at the bottom to a slab to a short section of 11+. Will your crimp strength allow you to snatch victory from jaws of defeat? Fun, but a little inconsistent in difficulty. There's a fixed brown cable draw (replaced old fixed chain, April 2020) half way up to make the crux clip a little safer and keep you off the slab. This route also gets water runoff area and the bottom tends to get pretty dirty after a rain.

Like a Hippalectryon, this one's tame and fun to ride.   

  Climb up cool, featured rock into a small dihedral. Easier climbing up to the upper wall past a left-angling crack and some more nicely featured rock above. 

 

Outrageous and sustained climbing. Takes good pro all the way up, but you have to be sneaky with your placements, particularly near the bottom.

Relatively easy moves up to the third bolt. Tough, fingery underclings on a plate past the third bolt lead up to the horizontal break below the fourth bolt. From here, it's 12a if you go left and back right to the fifth bolt. It's harder if you go straight up from fourth to fifth bolt. Then some engaging and fun moves to the top. 

Six fun bolts with a crux at the top. Go right onto the arete at the last bolt and it's 11a.

Sustained with some thin moves and potential for big safe air up high. 

  Intricate and bouldery moves past the first two bolts lead to a great jug for the third bolt clip. Climbing right of the bolt line for a couple more bolts, a sneaky mono undercling can be used to get the small ledge for the fourth bolt clip. Hard moves using a creaky flake (don't pull too hard) lead to a strenuous fifth clip. Take a nice, long no-hands rest on the generous ledge and crank up and left of the bolt line on a couple sloper holds for hands and feet past the sixth and seventh bolts. Intricate moves get you back to the right and up to the anchors on good crimps.

Intricate side to side climbing with a fun crux at the roof. 

  Climb left of the bolt line for a good bit in the lower third of the route. Cool switch back right to the bolt line up just past half way. Bust out left again for a move or two before great jugs take you over the fun roof moves.

Hardish start to a great rest followed by a long difficult boulder problem up the arete. Strangely left leg intensive. 

  Thuggish climbing out the low roof to a great rest at the break. Pull out the bulge above with big moves on pretty good holds to a clip. Slap up the arete above on some really fun holds skipping  a clip on the way to an edge on the arete. Make the clip and bust the last couple of hard moves up and left to a juggy horizontal. Easier climbing leads to the top of the route. 

  This route can also be climbed on THIN holds to the left of the bolt line at the cost of a bit more skin.

Remember the old cartoon short? Stop to smell the flowers and you might just get stomped. Stunning jug-haul with a dyno in the middle. Starts with a nice roof, too. Between this route and Kraken is Mike Wazowski (of Monsters Inc.).

Obvious big crack near the middle of the wall. Thin at the bottom, bigger up top. Fun with pretty good pro; crux is in the first twenty feet off of small gear.

Fun climbing but pretty contrived. Climb the crack to the right for the first ~3 bolts and move left onto face when it feels natural. Climbing directly on the face for the first ~3 bolts goes but is more difficult (about 12c.)  

  The best (and harder) finish is to go straight up at the final roof, but it's also possible to go right at the end.

A sweet route for all the sugar-fiends out there. There is a low crux at the second bolt, and then a second crux clipping the anchors.

Clip the first three bolts of Cyclops, then go left. The crux is a short crimpfest with some pretty pumpy climbing above.

It's steep with two distinct cruxes, the first going to the second bolt and the second passing the third bolt up to the 4th.

Hand/fist crack through a small roof; use Grendals anchors. Better than it looks, which isnt saying much.  

Like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, this route has some squeeze to it but has its own distinct crux followed by some fun climbing to the top.

 Start as for Jeckyll and Hyde past the first bolt to the ledge. But instead of busting horizontally right to continue up Jeckyll and Hyde, keep going straight up. Clip a high bolt and then boulder up and right to the arête and into the crux of the route. Clip a fixed cable draw and make a few more tough moves over the bulge. Enjoy easier climbing to one last steep section to the anchor.

 

Be prepared for an abrupt personality switch in the middle and some lichen up top.

Scoop shaped near the top, with very close bolts up high to keep you off the ledge.  Big jugs help when the going gets tough.

Steep, fun climbing with good gear and multiple cruxes. Much more solid than it looks.

The Monster Wall proper is steep, with some good harder routes in the middle and flanked on the sides with easier routes.  

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Monster wall overview.       (with climbs #1&2 being on The Bull Horn - the buttress immediately right of Monster Wall)

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