Other Routes in Pedestal Buttress Rock Climbing
- Upper Diagonal
- Flake Route
- Sometime Direct
- Congratulations
- Sometime Crack
- The Stretcher
- D.L.F.A
- Birch Tree Crack
- All The Way
- The End
- Golden Ledges
- Sometimes Left Side
- The Dog
- Rich and Famous
- Hourglass Direct
- Lower Diagonal
- The Pedestal
- Condolences
- Dyslexia
- Angle of the Dangle
- Sweatshop
- Assume the Position
- Blow-up
- Modern Art
- Hourglass
- The End Of The End
- Ironmongers Super Direct
- Pete's Lament
- Welfare Line
- Sometimes Right
- Evelyn Bites The Crust
- Creation Crack
- Pine Box
- Chimney's End
- Lethe
- Ironmongers
- F4 Ledges
The Beginning
2.1/4
A 40-foot long Trad and Top Rope route rated 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b


Almost certainly no slab features

Definitely chimney features

Almost certainly no overhang features

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