Other Routes in The Monster Rock Climbing
Also Close to the Thing
2.3/4
A 30-foot long Trad and Top Rope route rated 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b (PG13)
Probably no slab features
Almost certainly no chimney features
Probably no overhang features
Almost certainly no crack features
Routes similar to Also Close to the Thing
- The Bone
- Lost Face Overhangs I & II
- Jolly Roger
- Lost Face
- Queen's Throne
- Wiessner Face
- Peter's Project
- Lost Face Finger Crack
- Dippy Diagonal
- Charybdis
- Watermarks
- Lost Temple Corner
- Birch Tree Crack
- Via Apia
- The Great Crack
- Double Overhang
- Orgasm
- Birthday Crack
- Angel's Crack
- Curving Crack
- Coatimundi Crack
- False Alarm Jam
- Berkeley
- Agnostic
- Grand Inquisitor
- King's Throne
- Noah Vail
- Queen's Face
- The Bone Variation
- The Rack
- Pigeon Roof
- Half Moon
- Snedegar's Nose
- Bloodshed
- Full Stop
- Chicken Delight
- Foreplay
- PushMi, Pull-Yu
- Faith, Hope, and Charity
- North Side
- American Beauty Crack
- Swillbillies
- The Bastard Chimney
- Stuck Knee
- The Bishop
- Mary Jane
- The Grotto
- False Perspective
- Tomb of the Unknown
- Vacillation
- Effie
- Cracking Up
- The Horse
- Chicken Tonight
- Moon Face
- Pork Loin variation
- Pork Loin
- B-minor Mass
- Hypoglycemia
- Working on the Railroad
- Darkest Hour
- Impossible Crack
- Jacob's Ladder
- Tibia Crack
- The Spine
- Mousehole
- Family Jewels
- The Pike
- Fritz
- No Exit
- Three Wishes
- Ramses II
- Lechery
- Squirrel's Hole
- Archway Cookie
- No Vacancy
- Sweat Box
- This is a Six?
- Phat
- Dippy Diagonal Variation Right (AKA the Dipster)
- Rococo Variations
- Faith, Hope, and Tension
- Puffs Plus
- Cedar Tree Wall
- Bill
- Iceberg
- Annie's 8
- Primak's Surprise
- Mother Smucker's Jam
- Count your fingers
- Mitzvah
- Caesarian Tower
- Verticulture
- Sewing Machine
- Turret
- Missing Piece
- Lost in the Woods (Unnamed Route 5.7)
- Dead Tree Crack
- Pine Tree Crack
- Lower Diagonal
- Annie's Overhang
- Flying Indian
- That's it
- No-Deception
- Ramses I
- Cracker Jack
- Wiessner Chimney
- Stinger
- Flotsam and Jetsam
- The Chopper
- A Point of Balance
- Pine Tree Dihedral
- Throne Room
- The Pillar
- Missing Crack
- Deception
- The King's Valet
- Fun One
- Got You
- Pitchfork Face
- Barndoor
- Smoke Shelf
- Largo
- Minuet
- Creamy Caesar
- Coronary
- Finger Fun
- Jam Crack
- Pine Sap
- Aku Aku **route collapsed**
- The Layback
- Chez's Chimney variation
- Dirty Little Secret
- Everleigh Club Crack
- Fall Is Near
- Bread and Jam
- Crack 1.3
- The Rattle
- Chlorosis
- Schizophrenia
- Darkness At Noon
- Michael's Project
- Cliff's Coitus
- Foliage
- Heroes Fright
- The Pretzel
- Tree and a Half Men
- 22 5.8 face climb
- 6.63 Smoots
- New Box
- Sunken Pillar
- Balanced Climb
- Box top
- Cherry Blossom
- Varmit
- Tang Shwang
- Birthday Chimney
- Special K
- Bacon Breath
- Pullman Car
- Out of the Closet
- Foil
- Puzzlement
- Jan's Lament
- Fat Man's Misery
- Smoke Hole
- Hissing Vulture
- Mickey Mouse
- Turk's Head
- The Wasp
- Cracker Barrel
- Rock Garden
- Dead Tree Corner
- Der Schnozzel
- St. Peter Says "YES!"
- Delight
- No Trouble
- Sasquatch
- Grotesque Features
- Budget
- Stettner's Overhang
- Left Face of TM Overhang
- Seventh Buttress 1
- Second Day Air
- The Pawn
- Wobbly Block
- Close Call
- Arm Symphony
- Catalepsy
- The Fakir
- Jerry
- Archeopteryx
- Colostomy
- Unknown 7
- Bootlegger
- Just Missed the Fun
- Phooey
- Free Mileage
- Red Pulpit
- Minnie Mum Variation
- Skillet Dinner
- Out of the Woods
- Bill's Beta
- S Darko
- Equinox
- Hiker Envy
- Two Overhangs
- Whitney's Crack
- Hard Sell
- Avis
- Upper Left Crack
- Unnamed Crack in recess
- The Ungotten
- Disinclination
- Great Mass in C Minor
- Anemic Ladder
- Surehand, Surehand
- To the Hilt
- Pantry Shelf
- Cutting Edge
- Root Cellar
- Greatness
- Unnamed Short route
- Moon Rock
- Escalation
- Roofus
- North Country Corner
- Coffee Break
- Bloody Shin
- May Fly
- End of the Line
- Special Delivery
- Dances with FIBs
- Unknown 5
- Easter Island
- Squeeze Play
- Bowlers Grip
- Saturday Forever
- Civilian Stripes
- Waltzing Mary
- The Clamshell
- Turkey Tail
- Vulture Nest
- Heavenly Mist
- The Crypt Variation
- Body Snatcher Variation
- Squirm
- Poison Ivy
- No Holds Barred
- Peanut Butter
- Nobleese Oblige
- Butterfly McQueen
- Beginner's Delight
- West Michigan
- Seventh Buttress 6
- Wolf Dog
- Flux Capacitor Crack
- Seventh Buttress 5
- Seventh Buttress 4
- Elephant Crack
- Red Slab
- Illusion Chimney
- Hole-In-The-Wall
- The Trunk
- Walpurgisnacht
- Crusty Corner
- Modern Life is Rubbish
- Evil Twin
- 6 foot, 7 foot, 8 foot, Ledge!
- Rusty Crack
- Axeman
- Cherry Pit
- Cracked Diamond
- Ho-Chunk
- The McCord
- Skinny
- Three Kings
- Tomahawk Crack
- Squirrel's Nest
- Unnamed 5.7
- Catch Up
- No Rest For the Wicked
- Microwave Dinner
- Kenosis
- Jungle Gym East Face
- Hallucination
- Earnings Summary
- Surely Temple
- Railroad Offwidth (aka Birch Tree Dihedral)
- Northwest Crack/Arete
- The Pillow
- Sleestak
- Thin Fingers
- Unknown 6
- South Corner
- Static Stretch
- Blue Slab
- Claustrophilia
- Dove Tail
- West Siam
- Three Step
- Get Around
- Pitchfork Chimney
- Chester's Chimney
- Flying Delorean
- The Left Twin
- Oofdah Right
- Ledge Jam Crack
- Heinz 67 Cracks
- Poor Propects
- Jam Crack
- Kranz
- Son of a Bush
- The Ramp (a.k.a. "The Slab")
- Land's End
- Unknown
- Disappearing Ledge
- Waterfall Crack
- Lumby Ridge (pitch 3)
- Big Jim
- Big Toe Right
- Peal Off
- Horse with No Name
- Overlooked Corner
- Solar Eclipse
- Fois Gros
- Scavenger of Human Sorrow
- Sleazy Times
- Moderation
- Alexander's band
- Monolith Chimney
- Roy G. Biv Crack
- Blue Nose
- Boogie Board
- Thick as a Brick
- The Uncrackola
- Joseph
- Paul1
- Stettner 16
- Barefoot Bomber
- Life of Jam
- Above Board
- Get Jacked
- High Draft
- Arm Overture
- Curved Wall
- Minnie Mouse
- Hong Kong
- Deep inside corner
- Overlooked
- Chez's Chimney
- The Blade
- Dear Ann
- Clout Buster
- Greatest Generation
- Greatness Chimney
- North Chimney
- 20 Second Crack
- Crack a Beer
- Northeast Ridge
- Flaky Tower
- No Flakes
- Vulture Terrace
- Gyno Cracks
- Unnamed 5.7
- Tree Tower
- Elimination
- Dirty Flick
- Unnamed 5.8
- Happy Trails
- Rent-a-Wreck
- The Corner
- Insect Parts
- Cat Fight
- Cat Walk
- Cookie Cutter
- Furious Funnel
- Innocence
- King's Corner
- Loco Head
- Don't Call Me Shirley
- Seventh Buttress 3
- Left Hanging
- Jamboree
- Dogleg
- Ignominy
- Obduracy
- Green Slab
- Miss Piggy's Pleasure
- A Cheval
- The Outhouse
- Urve's Folly
- Broken Face
- Ramsay's Ride
- Fallen Birch
- Must Aard
- Monochrome
- Pay Off
- Seventh Buttress 2
- Spur
- Pussy Galore's Flying Circus
- Moby Dick
- Corner Crack Face
- The Right Twin
- Charlie Brown
- Easy Overhang
- Horticulture
- Right of the Eye
- Horner's Corner
- Amusing Bruce
- Ramsay's Ramp
- Cerebration
- The Mongo Mantle
- Hitch Hike
- Basket
- The Beginning
- Broken Foot
- Friendly Banter
- Half Crack
- Pinko
- Handle With Care
- The Mezzanine
- Ladybug Layback
- Better When Dry
- Spiderfighter
- Chimney's End
- Chockstone Chimney
- Stettner 7
- Decadence
- The Niche
- Smoooth Bush
- Death and Transfiguration
- Whamus
- Knobby Pillar
- Paul
- F4 Ledges
- Left Turkey Foot
- Inside Corner left of Transcendental
- Two Flakes
- Second Balcony
- The Dark Corner
- 5.7 Right of Two Cracks
- Sofa-Isticated-Lady
- Indecision
- Treachery
- Paul's Variation
- Gravel Pit
- Hare-Brained Scheme
- Cemetery Wall
- Unknown
- Invitation
- Ship's Prow
- Jolly Gendarme
- Nine-Minus
- Dyspepsia
- Jack of Spades
- Double Jeopardy
- Pantry Cracks
- October First
- Right Turkey Foot
- Girls Named Sue