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Superfresh 

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FA: Colin Lantz, et.al.
Type: Sport
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Submitted By: msamet on Dec 4, 2001


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This route has access issues. Please read the note available on the Fern Canyon page.

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Though technically not on the East Ridge itself this route is on a big, detached block just up from the toe of the East Ridge, right smack dab in the middle of the Fern Canyon Trail.

As such, you may want to consider avoiding this route on weekends -- both for your own sanity and out of courtesy to the scores of hikers that use the trail to access Bear Peak.

Superfresh is about a third of the way up to the saddle at the top of Fern Canyon and is the obvious, well-chalked double-overhanging arete right on one of the steepest sections of the trail.

Start in the crack in the dihedral and stretch right to clip a bolt. Move out onto the face and clip a second bolt and away you go! Continuously powerful moves lead up the arete to the famous footless clip. A final sequence on small but positive Flatirons crimpers gets you to the anchor.


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By Anonymous Coward
May 7, 2005

Historical tidbit shameless plagiarized from Achey, Chelton, and Godfrey's "Climb!" (2nd ed, p218):

Most of the Flatiron's sport routes climbed the flanks of hidden crags, but Superfresh took a line up a giant boulder that overhung the Fern Canyon trail. One day at the height of Fern Canyon's development, with power drills whirring in the background, a baffled hiker passed through the canyon. He heard the drills, saw the chalk and the bolts on Superfresh, put two and two together, and complained to the Boulder Mountain Parks rangers. There had been previous uneasy rumblings about the goings-on with climbers in the Flatirons, and after the Superfresh incident things happened fast. Within months, bolting in the Flatirons was outlawed. Within the year, Eldorado Canyon was also under a bolting ban. It was the end of an era. Issues of style and freedom to climb were no longer mere matters of opinion among climbers. They had encountered the law.