The Arch

Garrador

Garrador ascends the furthest right side of The Arch area, where claw-like rock features protrude from the mountain. There's an easier version by avoiding the traverse right in the middle of the route.

8a+
First AscentManInAWhiteSuitMar 18, 2026
First RedpointOpenOpen
First Clean AscentOpenOpen
Chalk Record99by Open
Speed RecordOpenby Open
2Ascents
1Redpoints

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To begin, crawl down from the edge closest to the waterfall onto a thin ledge. Traverse the ledge right and then step around the rocky bulge onto the slab.

Carefully navigate the slab to the upper edge and then move immediately left to a faint arete. Climb up the arete to a small roof and pull over the top of it.

Once past the roof, continue up until you are a few feet from reaching the grassy ledge. To your right, you will see the first diagonal blade, you must traverse this blade to the arete on the far right with the small triangular ledge. Getting across is the crux.

Once on the ledge, be careful about placing pitons, resting too long, or moving too far right. Any of these will trigger the out-of-bounds reset. If you begin to see this, don’t panic, simply start climbing up the arete and it will disappear. The arete is short will end quickly. Once it does you will have to do a combination of stem moves and smearing to gain the next blade, and then again following it.

Once through the stemming sections, climb over the rest of Garrador’s blades onto the furthest right edge of the slab and then run it out on that right side only.

Easier Version:

Above and to the right of the grassy ledge you’ll see the second diagonal blade pointing downward. Traverse that blade via under-cling or by slab climbing (even easier) over the top of it to get beneath the other ones.

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