This steep ice route forms in the overhanging amphitheater at the top of the couloir on the right side of the face. Allegedly. Unfortunately, I’ve never seen it, and I’m suspicious rockfall may hav...

The name of this route pays tribute to Ted Davis who possibly soloed it, or a different line on the Spider, in the 1970’s. This route ascends all the way up the couloir on the right side of the fac...

It took Wayne Wallace over a dozen attempts to achieve the first ascent of Center Drip, which he calls “the best line on the entire face.” Thankfully today we have better weather forecasting and m...

Arachnophobia was one of the first routes on the Spider, originally climbed by Wayne Wallace and Steve Elder in 1994. This route follows a wide, prominent drainage up the center of the face, begin...

This route climbs the prominent buttress between the star-shaped snowfield (left) and the Arachnophobia drainage (right). It was first climbed on rock in late summer by Steve Elder and Kevin Russe...

This route is the most recent addition to the wall, first climbed in 2018 by Mike Getlin and Walter Burkhart in thin conditions, with only one documented ascent since. It ascends an ephemeral flow ...

The Fric-Amos route is named after its first ascensionists, Dustin Fric and Bill Amos (founder of NW Alpine!). This is arguably the safest and most approachable route on the Black Spider as the req...