Behind Blue Eyes 5.11b
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The thin start to Behind Blue Eyes.
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Description This is an unusual route for Vedauwoo. It has very thin liebacking with smears for the feet. Very insecure! The gear is adequete, but the route is a little spicy.
Protection Nice route hidden on a large boulder south and east from Spectreman in a nice stand of aspen trees. The route faces northeast and is formed by a small, left-facing dihedral. There is one bolt about 20 feet up and a few places for thin gear. Two bolt anchor at top is easy to get to so you can set up a top rope.
BETA PHOTO: A view of the formation from the Spectreman approa...
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BETA PHOTO: EJ Nogaski on top of Behind Blue Eyes.
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BETA PHOTO: EJ Nogaski on Behind Blue Eyes ...
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| Comments on Behind Blue Eyes |
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By Old Fart aka Dave Bohn
Dec 26, 2003
| You actually found it? I've tried several times to locate this route but was never able to find it. |
By Jeff G.
From: Fort Collins
Aug 31, 2004
rating: 5.11b
| This route is pretty cool and well worth looking for. Unusual thin face and laybacking. A little difficult to protect, but very easy to toprope from bolts if you don't want to lead it. |
By nolteboy
Jun 1, 2005
| If you're at the Heap doing Spectreman, you should wander around 'til you've found this route. It's worth it. |
By Bart Paull
From: Boulder, CO
May 31, 2008
| The new guide is wrong about this route being about 200 yards from Spectreman. It is more like 500+ yards away. The easiest way to get there is to head more or less due east from Spectreman, straight downhill and into a grove of aspens. Follow this grove of aspens as the grove trends right (south), and you will meet up with a small path on the southern side of the grove. This path will lead you right to the base of the route. Another option would be to walk east from the first high point on the path to Spectreman, until you have past the aspen grove to your right (south). Once you are on the eastern side of the grove turn south and follow the edge of the grove. The formation will be obvious from here as it is a tall boulder with a very distinctive open corner. A totally awesome, atypical route for Vedauwoo. |
By Grant Pinkley
From: Fort Collins
Jul 22, 2008
| Any ideas as to the gear needed for a lead? My rack is a little lacking in the smallish sizes, so I was wondering what I might need for this climb in particular. |
By Brian Adzima
From: Pittsburgh
Jun 6, 2010
| Small gear did not seem as important as a spotter. |
By Dennis Horning
Mar 23, 2013
| GPS for Behind Blue Eyes reading taken just north of top of climb:
13 T 0468083
UTM 4560223
Elevation 8297
0.23 mile at 174 Degrees (southward) from about 60ft east of Specter Man where a 7 ft boulder is on east-west fence line. |
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