Seneca Rocks - West Faces

Perhaps the pointiest technical summit in the Eastern United States, Seneca Rocks is certainly one of the best (and only) multipitch venues east of the Mississippi. This improbably thin formation has a long history and a fearsome reputation for sandbagged grades, steep and sustained climbing and occasionally less than perfect rock.

 

Presented on this poster are most of the routes on the west face (the one visible from the road and visitor center), with the notable exception of the Face of a Thousand Pitons, hidden from this angle.

Route List

1: Good Morning, 5.7 PG, Janoscrat, McDonough, 1977

2: Witch Way, 5.10c PG, Anikis, Doyle, Janoscrat, 1982

3: And God Created All Men Equal, 5.10c PG/R, Collins, Flam, 1981

4: Sunny Down Bulow, 5.9 PG, Doyle, Janoscrat, Jones, 1983

5: Praying Mantle, 5.9 PG, Doyle, Janoscrat, Thesing, 1983

6: Guillotine, 5.9 PG, Doyle, Janoscrat, Larsen, Thesing, 1983

7: Dark Star, 5.11c R, Anikis, Doyle

8: Captain Hook, 5.9+ R, Anikis, Swoager, Thesing, Thesing

9: Seneca Samurai, 5.9 PG, Janoscrat, Swoager, 1980

10: Know Fear, 5.10c R, Artz, Begoon, Clark, Clark, 1991

11: Green Snake, 5.11a PG, Barnes, Begoon, 1991

12: Snickers, 5.11b R, Marshall, Moore/Doyle, Janoscrat, 1978

13: Stuck in Time, 5.12a R, Alford, 2019

14: That’s Reality, 5.12a X, Artz, Begoon, Parker, 1988

15: Thunderbolts, 5.11d PG, Moore, Parker, Parker, 1987

16: Circumflex, 5.9+ PG/R, Arsensault, Grabnegger, 1973

17: Princess Snowbird, 5.11b G, Anderson, Cecil

18: Psycho Warfare, 5.10c X, Doyle, Janoscrat, 1981

19: Bray to the Lord, 5.12a PG, Begoon, Clark, 1992

20: Bray No More, 5.12c PG, Begoon, 1992

21: Galileo, 5.11c G, Cecil, Tolin, 1994

22: Natural Selection, 5.10d PG, Tolin, 1999

23: Underground Phat Party Bloodhound, 5.10d PG/R, Tolin, 1999

24: West Face to Gunsight Notch, 5.0 PG

25: Pine Tree Traverse, 5.0 PG, Chamberlin, Tatge, 1946

26: Talk Dirty to Me, 5.8 PG, Fleming, Robinson, 1982

27: Flying Teapot, 5.7 PG, Fleming, Robinson, 1982

28: Planet Gong, 5.6 PG, Fleming, Fox, Robinson, 1982

29: Silent but Deadly, 5.11a PG, Doyle, Steele, 1976

30: Hooked on a Feeling, 5.12a PG, Cecil, Hartley, 1988

31: Negative Feedback, 5.11a R, Beatty, Wain, 1979

32: Summers Eve, 5.10d X, Absolon, 1984

33: Bansai, 5.12b PG, Cecil, Hensley, 1992

34: Irrelevance, 5.10d PG, Beatty, Collins

35: Malevolence, Direct Finish, 5.12b PG, Hensley, McCray, 1992

36: Malevolence, 5.10c PG, Prothro, Rollins, 1974

37: The Ma Bell Connection, 5.11d PG, Barry, Smith, 1985

38: The Bell, 5.12a R, Banks, Karczewski, Prothro, Swoager, 1983

39: Psycho Driller, 5.12c PG, Cecil, 1989/Woodruff

40: Psycho Killer, 5.11b PG, Beatty, Karczewski, 1981

41: Madmen Only, 5.10a PG, Faint, Shipley/Craig, Livingstone, 1966

42: Transitional Objects, 5.11d R/X, Cote, Smith, 1985

43: Short Stuff, 5.8 R, Doyle, Prothro

44: Scrambled Leggs, 5.8 R, Janoscrat, LaRue, Sands, 1979

45: Lox, 5.8 R, Doyle, Larson, 1980

46: Slamline, 5.10d R/X, Bedford, Swoager, 1982

47: Pedro’s Problem, 5.10c G, Doyle, Larson, 1980

48: By The Way, 5.9 R/X, Kline

49: Banana Down Under, 5.6 PG, Fairtrace, Nardini, 1983

50: Banana, 5.6 PG

51: Banana Peels, 5.12b R, Absolon, Smith

52: So What, 5.7 R, Ashe, Hallock, 1982

53: Fat Country Girls, 5.12c R, Bercaw, Hansen, 1987

54: Debbie, 5.6 PG, 1981

55: Manual Dexterity, 5.10d R, Bercaw, Hand

56: Gunsight to South Peak Direct, 5.5 PG, Scordoes et al.

57: Burning Tendons, 5.12a PG, Artz, Cote, 1986

58: Tomato, 5.8 PG, Evans, Hale, 1969

59: Green Dragon, 5.10a R, Begoon, Kline, 1983

60: A Whiter Shade of Pale, A3+, Shull, 1999

61: Guns Do Kill, 5.11a PG, Dower, Hansen, 1993

62: Green Wall, 5.7 G, Christian, Shipley, Talbert, 1956

63: Inner Planet, 5.11a G, Tolin, 1999

64: A Better Way, 5.9 PG, Doyle, Whitman, 1980

65: Jade, 5.10a R, Anikis, Doyle

66: Past and Pleasant, 5.9 PG, Cecil, Phillips, Twitchell, 2019

67: Pleasantly Surprised, 5.10a G, Cecil, Phillips, Twitchell

68: Nowhere to Run, 5.10b PG/R, Doyle, Hale

69: Pleasant Overhangs, Direct Start, 5.10b/c PG, Evans, 1966

70: Pleasant Overhangs, 5.7 PG, Shipley et al.

71: Pleasant Exposure, 5.8 G, Cecil, Clarke, Hyndman, Hyndman, 2019

72: Arrested Mental Development, 5.9+ R, Barnes, Cecil

73: Alex in Wonderland, 5.12a PG/R, Karczewski, McKigney, 1982

74: Pleasant Overhangs, Direct Finish, 5.12b PG, Janoscrat, Lucas, 1977/Karczewski

75: The Sorcerer, 5.11a PG, Cecil, Clarke, 1992

76: Thais Direct, 5.7 PG

77: Dressing Room, 5.11c PG/R, Smith, 1987

78: Fing Ringer, 5.11a PG, Bercaw, Hansen, 1987

79: Before the Fall, 5.10b PG, Caston, Kelbel, 1997

80: Thais Escape, 5.5 PG, Christian, Shipley, 1956

81: West Pole, Direct Start, 5.7 PG/R

82: Bring on the Nubiles, 5.9+ PG/R, Stephens, Vera, 1985

83: Solidarity, 5.9 PG, Brezhnev, Walesa

84: Lolita, 5.11a PG, Absolon

85: West Pole, Direct Finish, 5.8 G, Ebner, Grabnegger, Markwell

86: Casual in the Mind’s Eye, 5.10a PG, Baumgartner, Prothro, Weinmann, 2011

87: West Pole, 5.7+ G, Bogel, Payznski, 1970/Beaman, Myer, 1971

88: Clarke’s Climb, 5.9 PG, Clarke, Kepler, 1972

89: Days of Future Past, 5.8+ R, Cox, Shull

90: Bypass, 5.8 PG, Christian, Markwell, Wexler, 1972

91: Clarke’s Climb, Direct Finish, 5.7 PG, Cox, Walsh, 1981

92: Conn’s West, Direct Finish, 5.5 G, Wexler et al.

93: Out of the Cold, 5.10d PG, Absolon, Govi, 1984

94: Irony, 5.5 PG, Absolon, Elleson, 1984

95: Conn’s West, 5.5 PG, Hartz, Richardson, Schulter, 1944

96: Conn’s West, Corner Start, 5.7 G

97: A Thought Forgotten, 5.10d PG, Boyer, Murphy, 2002

98: Back to the Front, 5.9 PG, Miller, 1993

99: Crusher Critter, 5.9 PG, Collins, Vera

100: Critter Crack, 5.6 G, Garman, Markwell, Murphy, 1972

101: Creepy Critter, 5.9 PG/R, Dawson, Newman, 1983

102: Poor Man’s Critter, 5.7 PG, Aiken, Piccolo

103: Crispy Critter, 5.7+ G, Aiken, Fowler, 1973

104: Kosher Critter Direct, 5.10a PG, Begoon, Clark, Clark, Fairtrace, Ramm

105: Kosher Critter, 5.10a PG, Absolon, Perliss, 1983

106: Traffic Jam, 5.8 G

107: Low Rise, 5.7 PG

108: Road Kill, 5.7 PG, Dawson, Newman, Scott

109: Old Man’s Route, 5.3 PG, Gaylord, Karcher, Karcher, Tieman, 1949

110: Le Gourmet Traverse

111: Monkey See, Monkey Do, 5.9 PG, Fomalot, Smith, 1998

112: Prune, 5.7 PG, Christian, Wexler, 1971

113: Seneca Daze, 5.7+ G, Cecil, Jerod, 2009

114: The Peach, 5.8+ R, Anikis, Doyle, Janoscrat, 1982

115: Blackbird, 5.10d R/X, Brothers, Pettit, 2013

116: Cast of Thousands, 5.10a R, Hutchinson, Webster, 1979

117: The Plum, 5.9 X, Anikis, Doyle, Janoscrat, 1982

118: Front C, 5.6 G, Rodman

119: Hishiryo, 5.12c R, Bercaw, Hansen, 1987

120: Le Gourmet, 5.4 PG, Griffin, 1965

121: Ronin, 5.12d R, Artz/Bercaw, Dimsdale, 1987

122: Projected Futures, 5.12b R, Absolon

123: Easy Over, 5.6 PG, Reid, Schenk, 1975

124: The Bite, 5.9 R/X, Kulczycki, Rowins, 1979

125: Neck Press, 5.7+ G

126: Sidewinder, 5.11a PG, Doyle, Janoscrat

127: The Viper, 5.12b PG

128: Black Mamba, 5.12a R, Begoon, Cecil, 1992

129: Venom, 5.10b/c G

130: Cottonmouth, 5.10a PG, Evans, Hale, 1969

131: Cockfight, 5.9 PG, Cecil, Day, 2009

132: Jankowitz-Kamm, 5.5 PG, Jankowitz, Kamm

133: Breakneck, 5.7 PG/R, Jirak

134: Breakneck Direct, Direct Start, 5.10c PG

135: Breakneck Direct, 5.10b PG

136: Hit the Silk, 5.11b R, Erbesfield, Robinson, 1984

137: Partial Canopy, 5.11c R/X, Barry, Smith, 1985

138: Heartburn, 5.6 G, Livingstone, Weibel, 1967

139: Old Ladies Route, 5.2 G

140: Humphrey’s Head West Face, 5.3

Updates

June 18, 2022: Minor graphical update.