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All Locations > Colorado > Estes Park Valley > Lumpy Ridge > Sundance Buttress > Nose (5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b)
Recommended variation on P2 (as described here) is to layback the first stuff as usual but then head up and slightly right to the bottom of this splitter crack. 5.9 on the Rossiter topo, but it goes easy for Lumpy 9. As it fades, traverse straight left (5.8 face) to the bolts.
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Gordo on P2 (P1 if you link pitches) lieback flake on the right side. Stemming is possible.
Peter out over the big roof on P3 - Aug. 16, 2014.
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Joe Brannan
Aug 16, 2014
“Recommended variation on P2 (as described here) is to layback the first stuff as usual but then head up and slightly right to the bottom of this splitter crack. 5.9 on the Rossiter topo, but it goes easy for Lumpy 9. As it fades, traverse straight left (5.8 face) to the bolts.”  

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Bailing off the NOSE, With a hungry friend below at the base.
The route.
An unknown climber on the final pitch of 'The Nose (5.10)' as seen from 'Idiot Wind' on Lumpy's Sundance buttress. Photo by Tony Bubb, 2002.
Gordo on P2 (P1 if you link pitches) lieback flake on the right side. Stemming is possible.
Recommended variation on P2 (as described here) is to layback the first stuff as usual but then head up and slightly right to the bottom of this splitter crack. 5.9 on the Rossiter topo, but it goes easy for Lumpy 9. As it fades, traverse straight left (5.8 face) to the bolts.
Peter out over the big roof on P3 - Aug. 16, 2014.
Phillip Morris searches for his next nicotine fix.
Paul Ivaska moving through the crux of the standard Nose route.
From the trail near the Book. The Nose is located on the line between sun and shade.
Coming up the last bit on easier ground.
Gordo just below the crux traverse moves.
Gordo on P4 (P3 if you link pitches) nice climbing and better photos if you don't link pitches. Green slings below on the new belay bolts.
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