Baba Cool 

It's not 10a.

In my opinion Bab Cool is 10a. Even though Vern Phinney in his guide book has it rated as 9+. But then most of the 9+'s in Vern's book are 10a. The 10+'s are also 11a

Baba cool, way cool! I must climb. Cool side pulls with nice crystals.

I agree with that it is 10a although it was pretty hot when I did it so that may have had a littel to do with it.

I've climbed 10A's all over the country and I think that its on par with alot of other 10's that I've climbed. I also think that Wisconsin Beef is also really, really close to 10A. I think its listed as 9+ in the guidebooks.

It's 10a, onsite, if you climb it a few times it may not feel like 10a anymore ...

Wow, Baba Cool is a great outing. Must do for an intro Mt. Rushmore lead. Word Up!!!

At one point in time The Black Hills was a place where 5.9 was not a forgotten grade. There are a bunch of 5.9's on pine tree rock that are hard for the grade. Wasp is another hard 5.9. Now the black hills is turning into the land of bolted cracks. If you want to climb bolted cracks move to France, chizelmonkey.

Beware as all of the bolts on this route are loose and can't be tightened. Why hasn't the Coalition fixed this one? This does not make sense to me as there are very new Fixe Open Shuts and bolts for the anchors.

The bolts are not loose on Baba Cool. The hangers are loose on the bolts which allows them to spin; the bolts themselves are quite solid. I do intend to fix this situation and of course would accept the help of any anon. cowards on this project who would like to do something besides complain.

Yo Ron, I'll help. Never bolted before, so it's new to me. Always willing to learn a new skill, fact is I just learned the "Texas Sling". Gimme a call 3819800. It warms up, we fix Baba. -E

Superb route. Jay and I (mostly me I think, right Jay?) wanted to climb this on the last day of our trip to the Hills this summer. After being out there maybe 4-5 times in the last several years and each time wanting to climb this but not getting to do it, the climb had obtained a mythical quality for me. Well the sky was threatening and it was starting to thunder and sprinkle but hell with it! Gotta climb it. The rain was coming in from the other side of the Block and the route mostly stayed dry, and was quite a cap to a great trip. "Climb this one!" indeed.

Rating? -- Whatever, 5.fun.

best route for it's grade in the hills. if not the best route in the hills.

I climbed this route on my first climbing trip over ten years ago. I remember thinking then that it was one of the best routes I had ever done. I got back on it yesterday and I had that feeling reaffirmed. Baba Cool is one of those all time classic routes. Yesterday it made me realize that if this is what climbing can be, then I always want to be a climber.

The very best sport climb I've been on for it's grade...