A mid-day, mid-week, break from school bus driving.

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A mid-day, mid-week, break from school bus driving.

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Bill, Warren and Kreighton approaching Heaven.

West side of downclimb to rap tree showing good holds & foot ledges.

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Dave Gentry

Feb 8, 2005

“A mid-day, mid-week, break from school bus driving.”

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A photo of the bottom of the final downclimb off the very tippy-top. The yellow line is the route I took to get down. Above (not pictured) is a nice, east-west running crack that makes for an awesome lean-back downclimb about 50 feet north of the top.

The upper section of the route.

Start something like this - Stairway to Heaven.

George Bell, Kreighton Bieger, and Warren Teissier just above the crux on a foggy morning.

Afternoon cruise.

This is a shot of the down-climb to the tree with rings and webbing.

Heaven, before the final pinnacle.

Kreighton, Warren and Bill on the downclimb from Heaven. You go down the corner behind Bill.

Toward the downclimb.

I marked the crux. If you are using a rope and are looking for gear, there isn't much around the dotted red line. Our group came to the consensus that this was the crux of the climb.

View up the downclimb.

About halfway up Stairway to Heaven, 6/5/02

Looking down at Like Heaven

Greg on the down climb from Like Heaven.

Rick on top of 2nd pinnacle of ridge. Shows route to 3rd pinnacle. Like Heaven summit to right of Rick.

Tunnel just before the last pitch to "Like Heaven". I went through this tunnel, but the rock on the other side looked more exposed (although easy) than I felt comfortable with. Decided to come back through the tunnel and move up the ramp to the right of the tunnel entrance. Oct. 15, 2016.

Kreighton Bieger, Warren Teissier and George Bell at the notch just north of Like Heaven.

Rick climbing up 2nd pinnacle. Rock well-featured here.

Greg atop Like Heaven.

Bill, Warren and Kreighton approaching Heaven.

A mid-day, mid-week, break from school bus driving.

West side of downclimb to rap tree showing good holds & foot ledges.

This photo is on the first pitch and is what I believe is being described as the roof /crux (description below). Unless I was in the wrong area this was not the crux. The entire climb was pretty easy. The last pitch was a little run out, but sill there was adequate holds to get past it.<br>
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"Head up Skunk Canyon to the base of this ridge (the second ridge) and start climbing up the bottom of the slab heading toward a big roof. The crux is moving left underneath this roof."

Heroic picture of Amy near peak.

A photo looking north of the very top. There are rap slings on the tree. The yellow line is route I used to downclimb (mentioned in the next photo). The crack was a pretty fun lean-back.

A closer look at the bulging crux of the 5.9 variant that Mike led on Like Heaven, May 6, 2020.

The arch that lies below the south face of Like Heaven. The rope is visible (in upper-right corner) going up the 5.9 variant that Mike led, May 6, 2020.

Mike Endicott, barely visible behind the tree, is leading an undocumented variant (5.9) of the chimney variation, on the south face of Like Heaven, May 6, 2020.

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Chris Weidner

Boulder, CO

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