Exum Guides focus on the classic Needles routes. Most of these are demanding climbs, even the ones at supposedly “easier” grades. Here are a few of the great ones:

• Conn Diagonal, 5.7, 2 ½ pitches, Outer Outlet (Herb and Jan Conn, 1953)
• Classic Crack, 5.8, 1 long pitch, Inner Outlet (Bob Kamps and Mark and Beverly Powell, 1965)
• Conn Route on Aquariam Rock, 5.4, 2 pitches (Herb and Jan Conn, 1949)
• Needles Eye, 5.9, 1 long pitch (Rich Goldstone, 1964)
• Tee-the-Ball, 5.9 Ten Pins, 1 long pitch (Renn Fenton)
• Tricouni Nail, 5.9, Ten Pins, half-rope pitch (Royal Robbins, 1964)
• God’s Own Drunk, 5.8, Khayyam Spire, 2 pitches (Jim Kanzler, 1971)
• International Chimney, 5.7, Cathedral Spires, 2 pitches (Bill Briggs,1954, Bob Archbold, 1980)
• South Tower, 5.7+, 2 ½ pitches, Cathedral Spires (Herb and Jan Conn, 1953)
• East Gruesome, 5.8, Cathedral Spires 3 pitches (Herb and Jan Conn, 1959)
• Spire Four, 5.4, 3 Pitches, Cathedral Spires (Herb and Jan Conn, 1948)
• Spire Five, 5.3, 2 ½ pitches, Cathedral Spires (Herb and Jan Conn, 1949)

We also frequently guide a number of fine, but slightly run-out bolted routes, including:

• Old Persons Dome, 5.6 and 5.7
• Inner Course, 5.5, on Inner Outlet
• Little Fishies, 5.9 on Aquarium Rock
• Moby Dick, 5.5
• Anchors Away, 5.8, on the Fin
• Just Another Pretty Face, 5.8, on Photographers Rock
• 3 Rings for Elven Kings, 5.9, in Middle Earth
• The Golden Ring, 5.9, in Middle Earth