James Brown's Wild Ride 

In case anyone cares, it's more like hard-ish 11 than 12a. So don't let a silly # dissuade you or persuade you. Mostly, you just have to keep your wits about you, a ways above your previous bolt...the moves themselves aren't too hard, but _are_ fun. Still has chains (no biners) at the top.

Have to agree with mp, feels more like hard eleven.

This is a fantastic route. When climbers are tripping over each other to warm up on Cold Cuts and 80 Feet of Meat, this route will likely be free. Sure, it's not a great warmup because it's pretty thin, but it gives you a chance to climb a beautiful, long line up a relatively untraveled part of the canyon.

I consider it like Rumor has its big brother. A bit harder with a little more finesse. Great thinker's route. You will not have to line up for a ride on this one.

I really enjoyed this route: very technical, with continuous and engaging movement. Not at all runout anymore, 10-11 bolts to chains. I agree it's closer to 11d than 12a.

This route was rebolted with glue-ins in the past few years so it no longer has the runouts and now has 11 bolts.

Anyone know who changed this route and why? My apologies in advance if it was the FA that put in the extra bolts or if there is a good reason I don't know about. But....

This climb was memorable, safe, and exciting before. I haven't done tons of routes at Rifle. However, this one in particular was unique and one I've always remembered because I had to try desperately hard with some air underneath. In fact, the only reason I went to this description was to get a little palm sweat going at work.

It reminds me of a time when I was little. My mom took me to this park that had an ammmmmaazing slide. We got there and learned that the awesome slide had been replaced with a short, lawyer-approved, sissy slide. I still remember the disappointment. That's how this feels.

It was re-bolted a few years ago. Unfortunately when they went to put the bolts in the same location, they found that a couple of the original bolts were placed in hollow rock. They had no choice but to move them to more solid rock. Because of this, they had to make a choice to make the run outs way longer or to add a couple bolts. The longer run outs could have been dangerous, so they added the extra bolts. We are only allowed to climb in the canyon because the town of Rifle allows it. If someone got hurt because it was re-bolted in a dangerous way, it could jeopardize climbing in the canyon for everyone.