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Merry Men 

5.11b

   

FA: Alan Nelson
Type: Sport
Consensus: 5.11- [details]
Length: 1 pitch
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Submitted By: Quinn Stevens on Jan 1, 2001


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The crux. Tricky moves angle left using sidepulls ...


Description 

This is the leftmost route at the crag. After an initially powerful move, balance your way up the tricky seam to the top. Don't be afraid to traverse slightly left of the bolts when the climbing turns thin.


Protection 

Standard sport rack. 7 bolts to a two bolt anchor. The climb stops at the roof, and the bolts for the anchor are about a yard apart. Addendum: apparently these anchors have been fixed.



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1. Merry Men (5.11a/b)<br />2. Robbin' the Hood (5.11c)<br />3. Prince of Thieves (5.12a/b)

BETA PHOTO: 1. Merry Men (5.11a/b)
2. Robbin' the Hood (5.11c)...

There's a moderate slab move here and a finger jam move higher to get to the ledge. You may be ablee to see the long slings on the anchor--the bolts are far apart. The anchor really needs to be fixed. Perhaps it was set up this way to minimize the swings when toproping Merry Men, on thte left, and Robbin' the Hood, on the right.

There's a moderate slab move here and a finger jam...

Really fun moves....

Really fun moves....


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By Leo Paik
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From: Westminster, Colorado
Mar 5, 2002

Terrific little route. Lots of sidepulls. 11b is generous. Well worth the effort.

By S. Kimball
Sep 2, 2002

Top left, cold-shut anchor is a spinner, with shaft and hole eroded, if folks clean off any more to the left, downgrade to 5.10, nevertheless still cool....

By Mike Morley
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From: Oakland, CA
Oct 29, 2003

Although this as well as Robbin' The Hood are shown in the Rossiter Boulder Canyon guidebook (p. 47) as continuing past the 7th bolt, the rock above is covered in lichen. We ended up traversing right along the ledge and continuing to the top of Prince of Theives, which ends up being about 12 bolts (total) to a 2 bolt anchor and makes for a nice, slightly longer linkup.

By Michael Amato
Jul 13, 2005

Fun route, hard down low, but I couldn't quite find the 11b staying straight on the bolts.

By Aeon Aki
Oct 4, 2007

Devious climbing if you don't escape left to the right-trending rail at the bottom. The anchors seem straight up dangerous; too far apart, left one spins, and awkward to clip. Besides, this thing should pull the roof; it looks like it would go sub 5.12. Maybe some new anchors (does anyone even care)?

By Jeremy
From: Boulder, CO
Jun 16, 2008
rating: 5.11a

I really liked this route. I climbed it clean just after doing another 11b, so it's probably more like 11a.
I escaped left and had a hard time cleaning the route. I couldn't tell if the route was supposed to continue through the lichen or stop at the 2 bolts that were 4 feet apart.

By brentapgar
From: Boulder, CO
Nov 7, 2009

Just an update. Did this route today and someone has been generous enough to fix the anchor situation referred to above. There is a sold two bolt anchor w/ rings directly above the line of the climb.