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I believe this is the overall rock. It is visible on the roadway just after the s-turns coming from Idaho Springs.<br /><br />The sporty lines are on climber's left of this rock and are good quality.<br /><br />This rock looks alot bigger from the road than it really is.

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By Mark Nelson
From: Coniferous, CO
Apr 23, 2008

As seen from this pic, there is a fair amount of blocky rock with crappy, vegitated, & insecure "cracks". The sporty lines are good, but the trad climbing is lichen covered and chossy at most times. The mid-belay is under an overhang and offers good shelter should the leader send some bombs down.

I found the center line could go at greater than .5 if you stay left (but still use the center line), though lichen & flarey pro in potentially loose blocks, made the whole thing to be desired. I'd even venture an R rating, any fall on the trad is a bad one; not a new leader route.

Take a wire brush; I probably will the next time I give it a go. rack up to 2", bring extra in small cams to 1" - didn't use big stuff.

The lower center face that you traverse over has some potential as it looks clean and overhangs -- it actually looks like a face from a certain vantage point on the jeep trail.




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I believe this is the overall rock. It is visible on the roadway just after the s-turns coming from Idaho Springs.

The sporty lines are on climber's left of this rock and are good quality.

This rock looks alot bigger from the road than it really is.



Submitted By: Mark Nelson on Apr 23, 2008

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