Crumbly route that's too short and slightly dangerous. Overhung as well.

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Pride

Atlantis

Left Sock

Pillar de Chili

Crag Dog Millionaire

Envy

Oh Elle Yeah

Stuck In The Middle

Sunshine State of Mind

Split Personality

The Penny Cigarette

Killing With Stone

Whiskey River

Chili for Rent

Sleestack

Hiking Under the Influence

Jimmy Hoffa

Would be three stars if it was longer. It just begs for more height. Jug bash to the end.

Great power arete, overhung and wide. Hug the arete through sustained climbing with pockets a crimps intermittent between slapping your way up.

Probably want to stick clip the first bolt because it's a strenuous sustained sequence all the way to the second bolt. The climbing remains fun(if you used that word for the first part) but gets easier to the top.

A crimpy move off the deck leads to some fun moves on big holds

This is the namesake route of the Pillar de Chili formation (the name of which honors the former beloved HCR crag dog Chili). PdC is a short but enjoyable climb with some fun sequences. Not terribly sustained but powerful with its two steep cruxes. The stone here is also clean and absolutely bomber. Start off with a layback crux of the ground using an undercling knob and a uncomfortably low jug while smearing or using tiny dimples/edges for feet. Punch up long to the jug at the top of a vertical flake (there is a short-person friendly intermediate slopey rail there as well). Execute a high step and cruise through easy terrain to a ledge. Catch a rest,  and then position yourself to tackle a small roof on cool and unexpectedly positive holds to the left of the bolt line. Pull the roof, and execute a couple of easier but still steep moves to the anchors.

A very short oddball climb that does feature thoughtful and unusual climbing on big slopers up a slab. Still pretty dirty and may add a star as it cleans up. There is one key foothold that looks like somewhat rotten rock, and if it breaks, this route will feature a considerably harder move.

Very technical and tweaky pitch. Get the beta and think about padding for the knee scums.

Cool start on flake then to the face of wall.

Sit-start on the left side of the detached blade-like flake.

This is a short but excellent vertical to slab climb with unique holds that lacks only height. Start up a vertical section with flowing moves. Use an awesome totally camouflaged jug to to pull past the 2nd bolt. Work around the top lip on the vertical section to the left (felt like the crux to me), and then traverse back across the slab to the right using tiny dark knobs. Tech your way up the remaining slab section to the anchors. Really cool holds on this route and excellent varied movement.

Definitely a different style for HCR as the first part of this route is up a chimney feature and the second half is a very contrasting sloper-strewn slab similar to Crag Dog Millionaire. Split Personality starts out almost as a face climb with support/friction for/with the back rather than true chimneying moves. There is a distinct (and somewhat height-dependent) crux sequence of two moves that marks the transition between the two halves of the climb as one exits the chimney to the slab. Taller climbers can just continue up with back support and reach high to good crimps, pull the first move, and then exit the chimney feature by stepping back on top of the outer wall of the chimney before moving fully to the slab. Shorter climbers will probably need to push, grunt, and wriggle through a couple full chimneying moves and then crimp and smear on to the slab.

Arete climbing at it's most annoying. Stick clip the high first bolt and keep from barndooring off till the anchor.

Starts in overhanging orange stone. Sit-start, work out the overhang and into the highball top-out.

This route was the first line climbed in the corridor. The crux comes after the crack finishes out where you can place your final gear. Then the dihedral where you can clip the bolt till the anchors. 

Casual sport route. Heads up a short face to a ledge. There, the climber can move left to finish on the Crag Dog Millionaire anchors (for a quick 2/1) or go up a slightly-tilted arête to finish at a higher set of anchors. Still needs to clean up just a bit and may add a star as it does.

Sleestak is a diamond in the rough at HCR. It shares the dihedral with Whiskey River for the start, but at the second bolt, make a hard move right out onto the face. Continue on up the slight overhang to the base of the big roof. Move out to the lip through the sloper crux.

Can be dirty.   Start on the flake and up into shallow pockets then a hard move into the undercling. The route veers slightly right and sustained climbing all the way to the anchors.

Like the name implies, it's a little out there.    The area gets little sun and is damp. It's a nice place to escape the heat in summer, but is usually in need of scrubbing.    There are only 2 routes below 5.10 and one of them is traditional.  Nevertheless the area has some sick climbs that would definitely be must do's if the area was a bit cleaner.    On a good note the geology of this area is among the most unique in the whole canyon, gotta love that.

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