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5.9

   

FA: Bob D'Antonio and Vaino Kodas
New Route: Yes
Type: Trad, Sport, TR
Consensus: 5.9- [details]
Length: 1 pitch, 50 feet
Views: 231 page views

Submitted By: Bob D'Antonio on May 20, 2003


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Description 

This route is located just below the Wall of Winter Warmth. Start left of "Alpha Bob" and make a tedious mantle past a bolt. Climb up to a roof, placed a medium friend, clip a bolt and continue up seams past two more bolts (and gear) to the anchor. Good route!


Protection 

Small-to-medium gear and four bolts to a 2-bolt anchor.


Location 

Between Mini Moe and Alpha Bob.



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At the last bolt. The cracks above this are sometimes wet. The mantle is at the first bolt at the top of the shadows at the bottom of the photo. The ledge you are mantling on is sloped and slick and at head level. There's nothing for your feet. So, for me, the crux is getting high enough (jump!) to get the arm cocked in mantle position.

At the last bolt. The cracks above this are someti...

Moving up the final cracks. It's about 5.8 here. The "black groove" of the Left Side route is visible up and right from Chuck.

Moving up the final cracks. It's about 5.8 here. T...


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By Tod Anderson
May 30, 2003

Hey, there's another Closed Open Space at Ralston Buttes in Jeffco too. This must be some kind of trend. Overpaid and overstaffed county agencies keeping us out of their private parks......

By Ivan Rezucha
Jan 9, 2005

If you think the mantle is way hard for 5.9 (as I do) you can climb the easier 10+/11- slab to the right or climb the corner on the left and step right to the first bolt.

By Ivan Rezucha
Jan 9, 2005

This is a good alternative to The Slit to approach the Left Side, Direct Cop Out, etc. routes.