This is a fun, slightly-overhanging route with huecos on a WSW buttress of Dinosaur Rock. The rock is still a bit friable partly due to lack of traffic and partly due to its overhanging nature. It is the L of the 2 bolted lines. It is not listed in either of R Rossiter's Boulder Climbs North nor Flatirons guidebooks. It was shown to me by Scott Resnick.
Find this route by on a small steep buttress of Dinosaur Rock access via NCAR to the Mesa Trail then either hiking up the Mallory Cave Trail until above the top of Dinosaur Rock and hiking briefly down the gully between it & Der Freischutz (between 1st & 2nd strata) or hiking S on the Mesa Trail to the Bear Canyon Trail, crossing Bear Creek, and up the gully between the 1st & 2nd strata. You can see this buttress well from the top of Rehatch or Cloudwalker on Northern Dinosaur Egg. You can climb one of the sport climbs to the R of this plum line below the anchors and set up a TR off of a 2 bolt anchor above the line or scramble/climb around the back of the formation.
The path of least resistance on this line starts as for the bolted climb to the R, then traverse L after the first bolt to the plum line. It wanders a bit L in the upper half and then, near the top, exits off R just before the anchor. It feels 5.10b or so and is continuously overhanging. Strong climbers may find this too soft. There are some longer reaches for the height-challenged. The chains at the top are very rusty but the bolts look ok. 55ft in all. Long slings for the anchor help reduce rope wear.
Dinosaur Rock
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