Named after the Raiders' poor Superbowl showing, or the chess opening, this route climbs a tightly-bolted seam up the blunt arete/prow of that forms the right edge of the deep cleft that leads up to the Red Heat wall. Not pumpy - more about balance. 

  Boulder up to the first bolt (bad landing). From there the route is tightly bolted and offers interesting climbing. Use care on a hollow undercling at mid-height. A soft touch for the given grade of 11c.

Commitment to Excrement (aka Giuoco Piano)

fun sport climbing in a great setting. traverse right under a big scoop and over the lip to an exposed face.

Plastic People

This two pitch route climbs a bolted face and discontinuous cracks for two pitches.   Find the first pitch's first two bolts directly below a cracks splitting the wall down and below the wall where you find Red Heat.   Club up past 2 bolts and then follow a rightward trajectory clipping two more bolts before following a crack over a bulge to a belay anchor mid face.   The second pitch climbs a depression in the slab past one or two more bolts to the top anchor.

Yodritch

One of my favorite single-pitch climbs in the country. It is comparable to other masculine enduro-classics such as Quarter of a Man and Mister Clean. Running Man features slightly overhanging Red Rocks crimping. Start with a cruxy move by the first bolt (harder, if short), followed by a long stretch of 5.10 climbing with no real rests and ends with a semi-cruxy move just below the anchors.The start of the climb is easy to find with the Swain guide. This climb is in the sun almost the entire day.

Running Man

Nevada Book is a great climb, much in the same vein as Great Red Book, a route with which it shares a first ascensionist, John Williamson. 

  The first pitch starts on top of the large boulder and goes up the easy, right-leaning ramp for about 60 feet to a fixed anchor (bolt, nut). 

  The second pitch starts off with the crux immediately off the anchor. This chimney section is pretty poorly protected, but after a move or two, there is a bomber hold followed by some good pro. Continue up the mellow corner, past a tricky bulge, to the top of the feature where you build an anchor. 

  Descend by walking to the left, down the Red Heat Gully. There is a single rope rappel from a bush.

Nevada Book

A thin face climb on a near-vertical face. The left-most of a few adjacent face routes, it is the harder but the better protected. Climb past multiple thin moves on slopers to the anchor up top and lower off. It is a simple but fun route.

Split Ends

Fun easy climbing. Crux next to bolts with friction moves on low angle slopers. Easier lead with tighter bolts than the original route to the left.

Eat My Shorts

A so-so route that probably isnt worth doing with all the other awesome routes in the vicinity. If you do, make sure to take a medium cam (.5/.75 camalot) for between the 4th and 5th bolts- rock and bolt quality are both suspect.

Vile Pile

A fun route up very good varnished rock. The crux comes in the vicinity of the third or fourth bolt. The easiest sequence wasn't initially obvious to me; using it might require some wingspan but there are several ways of doing the crux. The route stays interesting all the way to the top. 

Galloping Gal

This route goes up just to the right of Running Man. Possibly a little harder than Running Man. No hand jam rest in the middle. A little tricky getting to the second bolt. If you come off here you could deck.

Graveyard Waltz

This route begins in the Red Heat gully, and shares the same opening  moves and bolted anchors with the route Plastic People. Climb the slab, trending left toward a roof. Make a few tenuous moves to gain the first bolt, crank the roof, then continue to the anchors (which are unable to be seen until the angle eases off).

Synthetic Society

pitch 1 starts a ways to the right of Nevada Book.  Rope up at a crack just right of a cats claw bush.  Climb the crack for 40' then step left and climb another crack to a horizontal about another 60' higher.   

  Pitch 2 surmounts a small bulge with a bolt and climbs up an obvious crack to the top.

Spikes and Twine

This route is easier, but headier than its neighbor and is not the better warm-up. Climb crimps and slopers up the right-most of the bolted lines to reach an anchor. There are some distances between bolts that can be mitigated with gear, but not great gear.    A poor choice for a beginner lead, if you have that in mind.

Split Infinitive

Split Lip

Friction Face is a sustained and exciting slab climb.  There are multiple difficult sections with very few positive holds to rest on.  The bolts are well spaced to make this a spicy, but safe lead.  This climb faces south and requires a good amount of friction, so save it for those cooler days. 

  From a nice belay ledge, climb straight up clipping a bolt and begin to trend up and left.  Clip a few more bolts and head straight up through a varnished section of rock.  Some of the varnish is questionable, so use caution.  Pull over a ledge and your at the anchors. 

  Note, there is another set of anchors to the left in a right facing corner, this is for another climb.  You should climb straight up after the last bolt.  It also seems that this climb may have "sprouted" a retro bolt.

Friction Face Panty Waist

scramble up to the top of the gully to the right of running man. start up the left-leaning, right facing dihedrals (the set on the right) until you reach the bolt line. zig zag your way up the face to the anchor in the bigger of the two huge huecos at the top of the wall. Double ropes would have been nice to reduce drag. This is an awesome adventure sport route!!! All the bolts are 10 - 20 feet apart.  soft, sandy, slopey crimps on a steep slab.  could be harder than 10d at this point.

Red Heat

This very sunny cliff contains high quality one pitch climbs which are mostly bolted and relatively long -- generally two ropes are needed to rappel.

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Routes in Running Man Wall