Other Routes in The Tombstone Rock Climbing
Beating Around the Bush
2.2/4
A 150-foot long Trad route rated 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b (PG13)


Almost certainly no slab features

Almost certainly no chimney features

Almost certainly no overhang features

Almost certainly no crack features
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- [Redacted]
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- Unsightly Blemishes
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- It's Not Happy
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- Ulna
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- The Mummy's Curse
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- Beezy
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- Hot Tubs From Hell
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- Chick Hern
- Hazing Incident
- Box Canyon Crack
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- [Redacted]
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- What a Joke
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- Oral Sex Bozeman
- Robitussin
- Solar Technology
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- Vitamin R
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- Reach Around Cop
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- Ren
- Weasels on Drugs Climbed up my Bunghole (aka Richard Gere Crack)
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- Little Bunny Fu-Fu
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- Mother of All Poodles
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- Fat Man's Misery
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- Atomic Pile
- Unknown 5.7
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- Nutcracker
- Unknown - Left of Dike
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- Fistful of Bush
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- False Smooth as Silk
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- Calcutta
- Hot Cross Buns
- Wet Pigeon
- Lean-To
- Sentimental Apathy
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- Right of Garfield
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- Satchmo
- Chicken Poop
- Dead Reckoning
- That's What She Said
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- Fringe Benefit
- Duchess
- Maybe Baby
- Staircase Crack
- Excuses
- Plain But Good Hearted
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- Jaime's Big Show
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- Blue Nun
- Curtain Call
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- Nuts are for Men Without Balls
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- Non-Decumbent Destiny
- Swain In The Breeze
- Poodle in Shining Armor
- Michael
- Flakes of Doom
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- French Flies
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- Furthest Right S Crack
- Sugar Daddy
- Baba Louie
- Panama Canal
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- Rejuvenation
- A Fistful of Poodles
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- Backdoor Santa
- Tiny Dancer
- Jon Crowley
- Jane Pauley
- Fiendish Fists
- West Face Overhang
- Straight Flush
- False False Smooth as Silk
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- Squirrel Attack
- Nuts and Cherries
- Dilly Bar
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- Wataneasy Route
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- Chicken Pox Leave Bad Scars
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- White Trash
- With Malice and Forethought
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- Tuna and Cheese
- Worthless Bile
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- Ain't Nothing but a J-Tree Thing
- Hollywood Boulevard
- Jumping Jehosephat
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- Snail Away
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- Chocolate Snake
- Keystone Crack
- Unknown 5.6
- Grain for Russia
- Gorgasaurus
- Self Abuse
- Fluff Boy
- Masochism
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- Carolyn's Rump
- Go For Broke
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- Look Mom, No Hands
- Grand Theft Avocado
- Short Crack
- Zonker's Brownies
- Polar Bears in Bondage
- Which Witch
- Bolder Face
- B Flat
- Adam's Happy Acres
- Nobody Walks In LA
- Super Chicken
- S is for Super
- Corral Crack
- Stucca By A Yucca
- Diabetics
- Bonnie Brae
- Beck's Bear
- She's So Unusual
- Maggie's Farm
- Roman Pretzel
- Cake Walk
- Rings Around Uranus
- Filch
- Jackpot
- Sunnyside Campground
- H.R. Hardman
- Political Asylum
- Where Two Deserts Meet
- Axiom
- Upevil
- My Three Friends
- W. A. C.
- Chile Willie
- Bucket Brigade
- Blue Sky, Black Death
- Snake Oil
- The Face of Tammy Faye
- Unwiped Butt
- Jagged Little Phil
- Pet Project
- Siamese
- Holden Hands
- Crack 69
- Unknown Face-ish Route
- Bear Necessities, The
- The Chessboard
- Disco Sucks
- Walkway
- Debbie Does Donuts
- Driving Limitations
- Right Sawdust Crack
- Sidestep
- Fryer Flyers
- Whiskey
- South Buttress
- Bonglett, The
- Parental Guidance Suggested
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- Jaime's Crack
- Ranger J.D.
- Deadheads
- Disappearing Belayer
- A Walk on the Beach
- I Am Not A Crook
- Aleister Crowley (aka Brew 102)
- White Collar Crime
- Look Mom No Name
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- Linda's Face
- The Chicken Ranch
- Curbside
- Fender Bender
- Linda's Crack
- Donna T's Route
- Toe Jam Express
- Hot Tub Honey
- Little Rock Candy Crack
- Toy Story
- Business Trip
- Foul Fowl
- Ursa Major
- Bryant Gumbel
- Ulysses' Bivouac
- Boost for the Beginner
- Rip Off
- Request Chimney
- Grain Surplus
- Potlicker
- Cole Lewis
- Lizard Skin (aka Blue Belly)
- Babylonia
- Person Sitting in Darkness
- Asian Sponge Bath
- Nereltne
- Splotch
- Jump Back Loretta
- Schandenfreude
- Bong Along
- Flash Gordon
- Double Start
- The Playwright
- Robaxol
- Final Act
- Flake and Bake
- Tabby Litter
- Peculiar Taste Buds
- Picnic
- Fifteen Minute Gap
- Hillside Strangler
- Wallaby Crack
- Suzie's Cream Squeeze
- SOB
- Pony Express
- Ranch Hand
- Bakersfield Bomb
- Briar Rabbit
- Finally
- Hoblett
- Look Mom, No Sweat
- Duchess Left
- One Point Crack
- Cellbound
- Spider
- Rainy Day Women
- Square Root
- Ranger J.B.
- The Old Man and the Poodle
- Beginner's Two
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- Andromeda Strain
- Mosaic Wall
- Right Peyote Crack
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