Camera angle makes this slab look more vertical than it is. The first pitch can be climbed without using handholds!

This is an awesome single pitch route. After the freak hail storm Jen took some awesome photos. Props to Jen!!!!

Well, luckily enough I didn't get the boot off of this hill. Sweet route, definately a classic.l

...than the hold will come to me. Sweet route!!! Fun sport climbing (.11a) with a long reach and a smearing, slopey layback. Thanks Jen 4 the photo.

Chads right, this is destined to be a classic for all those offwidth, no pro, bombay chimney lovin mo fo's out there. (All 10 of you)

What a great route, but the glory is the burley 5.9 offwidth, yeah!

Taken by Khoan on my first lead up Bear's reach, I'm posing at the start of pitch 2.

Seeing The Groove without a climber on a weekend day is a rarity. Supertopo describes it as a 6-foot-wide pipe cut in half the long way. It's fun.

Once you've done the first pitch, and the first couple moves of the second pitch, the climb just gets easier and easier. Amanda had very little trouble with the whole route.

From the pull-off on route 50, one can easily see how steep is the leap, and how mild is hogwild.

Pulling the final fist jams out of the offwidth roof on Eeyors Enigma. I still have a short chimney section and a burly twelve inch squeeze chimney to burrow through before I get a spot to make an anchor. An overlooked classic for sure.

Making one of the reachy moves on Boothill. I couldn't really tell where the (actual) crux was, but for sport, it was a pretty good route. Photo by Jenn Codina.

This climb got the blood flowing. The finger locks and lieback moves were great, but trust those feet. I continued up the crack to the left and then had to traverse over, making for some nasty rope drag, instead move onto the arete a few feet higher and run it out to the top.

David on Traveler Buttress

Kris on 2p

This is me nearing the end of the 2nd pitch of Haystack. Looking closely you can see the beautiful horizontal dikes that define climbing at the Leap.

Just getting a feel for my #9 before I put it to use. Unfortunately my #12 didn't fit. Aah excess!

I had not yet climbed Scimitar, but on a nice June morning drove up from Berkeley and attached its ascent to that of a few other fine routes in the vicinity.

My son and I after his first run up knapsack.

Kris on 2p

The climber is two thirds up the picture in the dark crack. 1969 photo.

Mike Yokell studies the overhang while leading the last pitch of The Line, 1969. No harness, no cams, no belay devices. Just a waist swami, blue jeans, and old climbing boots. The Line is rated 5.9. I rapped down to get this unusual camera angle on black and white film. -Mark Haymond

Splitter crack starts on a corner, another one to the left is more techie and thin, just beautiful. Get pass the anchors and the real deal begins, make sure to get your sack ready for that roof...good pro all the way!

Kim cruising Bears Reach at The Leap. To be honest neither of us could find the "reach" crux.

Starting up the first pitch of Haystack. My first big-boy trad lead (the first was Gutenberg Direct at Cosumnes).