(6) Bat Wall
Description
[Edit]Walk past Red Wall, Bridge Cliff, and Spring Rock until the trail starts to go over some large boulders. On your left is the impressive Bat Wall. Lots of chalk and mostly hard routes on this fun wall.Note that bolts on this wall have slowly amassed over time and the Portland Rock Climbs guidebook (Fourth Edition) does not have all of the lines listed here in its topos. There is also 2nd tier to the wall, so many of the routes listed here are actually begun from the anchors of other routes. Below is an attempt to organize these routes from L to R and by level:
1st Level (L to R) • Hanging Judge • The Undercount • Count Chalkula (cuts left from the midpoint of Dracula) • Dracula • Bela Lugosi (joins Dracula before the pod) • Frightnight - Listed at 13c in the guidebook, this has two more commonly climbed 13- variations: From the 5th bolt cut left and finish on Bela (Frightlight) or cut right and finish on Bad Omen (Bitenight) • The Haunting (cuts right across Bad Omen and finishes at Superstition anchor) • Bad Omen • Danse Macabre • Bloodsucker • Bloodline • Predator • Vlad the Impaler (cuts left from midpoint of Superstition) • Superstition P1 • Remain in Light (cuts right from near the top of Superstition, or more directly from Lost Boys by cutting left near the top) • Lost Boys • Mystic Void • Well Hung • Grave Digger • Gold Arch • Darkness Falls (cuts left from the midpoint of Dark Arts) • Dark Arts • Witching Hour • Revenant • Tombraider • The Thirst (cuts left from the midpoint of The Hunger) • The Hunger
2nd Level • Open Project, 5.14 (from Count Chalkula anchor) • Nosferatu (from Bad Omen anchor, cuts left from midpoint of Manson) • Manson Family Reunion (from Bad Omen anchor) • Sutured by the Vampress (from Bad Omen anchor, cuts right from midpoint of Manson) • Vampyr (from Superstition P1 anchor, left line) • Superstition P2 (from Superstition P1 anchor, right line) • Epitaph (from Superstition P2 anchor) • Natural Mystic (from Mystic Void anchor)
There are also a number of popular link-ups on the wall. Those are listed here from L to R: • Frightlight, 13- (Frightnight into Bela) • Bitenight, 13- (Frightnight into Bad Omen) • Bad Omen -> The Haunting -> Vampyr, 5.11+ (The most direct way to reach Vampyr, can be climbed in one pitch) • Mystic Boyz / Mystic Pizza, 5.10+ (Mystic Void into Lost Boys) • Well Digger, 5.11 (Well Hung into Grave Digger) • Gold Digger, 5.11 (Grave Digger into Gold Arch finish)
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