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Sweet Pain 

5.12a

   

FA: Leo Henson & Randy Faulk - 1991
Type: Sport
Consensus: 5.11c/d [details]
Length: 1 pitch, 50 feet
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Submitted By: Josh Janes on Oct 1, 2003


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Climber nearing crux


Description 

The namesake climb is pretty good (and soft for the grade?)... climb up very steep rock past some sharp incuts. Fun moves.


Protection 

A few bolts to a lower-off.



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T. Melin floats up Sweet Pain

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me leading Sweet Pain in Red Rocks

me leading Sweet Pain in Red Rocks


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By chad wolak
Dec 20, 2004

I thought the idea of posting routes online was to give others directions to the route..... the description for "Sweet Pain" doesn't help one locate the route.

I'm not trying to critize, just making a helpful observation.

By Mike Morley
Administrator
From: Oakland, CA
Dec 21, 2004

Chad -- check out the description of the crag one level up at http://climbingredrocks.com/rock/db/second_pullout/sweet_pai>>>>>. Hope this helps.

By Gary Savage
From: Las Vegas, NV
Feb 10, 2007

Sweet Pain is one of those soft Red Rocks routes. The grade is closer to 11c. It's still a great route just heavily grade inflated.

By John Soares
From: Corvallis, Or.
Feb 3, 2008
rating: 5.11c

very soft for the grade. 11c maybe... still fun!

By Jason Halladay
From: Los Alamos, NM
Dec 29, 2008
rating: 5.11c/d

Keep an eye out for the huge sucker hold out left at the crux. :)

By Marc Wolak
Jan 20, 2009

Yeah ... I climbed Sweet Pain too. It was absolutely no problem.
As a matter of fact, unlike Chad Wolak, I did it with one hand tied behind my back. Yeah ... easy stuff. Give me somethin' harder to
climb; will ya?