This climb heads up the face 15 feet right of Baby Roof. Descend by downclimbing the gully on the climber's right of the route.

Gail Winds

Aftermath

El Smear or Land

Foreign Legion

Geometry

Baby Face

Math

Left Overs

Fright Night

Do the Math

Arms Are For Hugging

Able Was I Ere I Saw Ellesmere

Made in the Shade

Baby Roof

Baby On Board

Really fun roof climb.  The roof is probably more like a 5.6.  The crack above the roof is about 5.4.  The pro is excellent.  I would recommend this for a new trad leader.

It is 30' right of Baby Roof, just left of an orange dihedral (Houdini Arete), and about 100 yards up from the desert floor. A great hand crack at the bottom with fun traversing with some exposure at the top. This is a great climb to practice hand crack technique, especially the first 25 feet.

Immediately left of the Houdini Arete/Great Escape is this thin crack.  Rated .10d in the Vogel guide, it is easier than it looks.  Not worth travelling for, but a worthy tick.

Just left of Aftermath lies a low roof with a finger crack.  A block juts out just below the roof.After the roof, easier climbing leads to the top.

This route is basically boulder problem, as the difficulty eases significantly about 15' off the ground.

This is a slab route on good rock.  The moves are interesting, and there is a long runout on the crux.

This route is significantly easier than the 5.10B rating in the guidebook, and is not sustained at all.  The crux is a short wide chimney.  The rest is mostly wide crack, but quite easy.

This route surmounts the crack on the left side of the Baby Roof. Descend by downclimbing the gully on the climber's right of the route.

This is the face between Aftermath and Math.

Climb a silver slab past several grey knobs (liebacking a bit on the right-hand edge) then follow a flake/thin crack that diagonals up and left. Make a delicate step-up onto a big knob, then crimp up a short, steeper section on edges, finishing up a juggy flake/crack.

Very good rock quality.

At the begining of the Elsmere area, near ground level there is a boulder with a sloping arete ( looks a bit like an elephant's trunk ).  The route steps out onto the blunt arete and squeezes its way up from there.  The technical crux moves are very well protected.  As for beta, the name says it all.

A crux wide hands start leads to hand jamming and then a corner with finger jams.  The rock quality is good.

Located just to the right of Houdini Arete/The Great Escape with a horizontal pine tree at the base.

Bombay flare leads to a hand crack.  Not a bomb, and worth doing if in the area.  Good experience for the odd wide flares with hand cracks in the back.

Climb the arete right of Baby Face passing over a small roof near the bottom. One star out of five.

So named for the ubiquitous yellow signs plastered in the back window of cars.

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Routes in Ellsmere Island