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The Tennessee Wall is immense. The size, scale and nature of the climbs is intimidating. But you will be hard pressed to find a place with more splitter hand and finger cracks lined up side by side in a more beautiful woods. The routes are as tall and pumpy as they are attractive. But this just makes the feeling of rich history on these traditional climbs all the more vibrant. This could be one reason why my friend Michael left the desert cracks of the SouthWest and moved here to Tennessee to climb these routes he had only seen in pictures. (Or maybe it was that his beautiful fiance lived here.)
Don't be surprised if you find the routes here to be very stout and almost sandbagged. Most of the climbs are 90-foot pitches that eat up your gear and your rope and your hand jams. Even the hike up to the base is a tiring, steep uphill push.
Your mouth will fall open when you fist visit the T-Wall. At the top of the steep hike you will be greeted by a tall waterfall and the first route actually winds behind this waterfall to a shallow cave, high on the blank face. 
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To view some pictures of me and a few of my friends on some of our favorites, click the link below: a few pictures |
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The routes are endless, and are a testiment to the amazing work of Rob Robinson, one of our local strongmen of the past generation and one of my personal heroes. With the help of others, such as Robyn Erbesfield, Forrest Gardner, etc; he put up so many three-star routes that the guidebook pages seem almost blackened by them:
Finagle 5.9
In Pursuit Of Excellence 5.9
Plastic Toys 5.7
Jay Walker 5.7
Digital Macabre 5.10b
Golden Locks 5.8+
Razor Worm 5.9
Cake Walk 5.10a
Celestial Mechanics 5.12c
Psycho Path 5.13b
Elevation of the Soul 5.11 b/c R/X
and so many more |
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