'Houston 5' is the rightmost bolted line on John's. It starts with a mixed bolted/trad line (Amazon), and reaches a cruxy thin section between the 2nd and 3rd bolt, harder for short people. Angle left on cruiser crimpy typical basalt climbing leads up to the anchor (shared with Easter Rising ).
Cleaner than most at John's Wall, and fun climbing.
'Taos Rock' shows a bolted 5.11 variation to this climb, beginning left of 'Houston 5' and right of 'Easter Rising'. I think one of those bolts may be missing now, though, but I didn't look very carefully.
Location
This is the rightmost bolted line on John's Wall.
Protection
5(?) bolts to a 2-bolt anchor. Optional #0.5 or #0.75 cam or tricam.
Did this climb on 12/31/08 wall is climbable on a warm winter day recommend late morning we got there about 1 and sun was starting to go behind other side of canyon. I only recall there being 5 bolts to anchor chains. Crux is definitely between the second and third bolt. Between the third and fourth bolt you can place some gear I used a .5 and .75 camalot in the horizontal cracks a red tricam would probably have been better but it was on the ground.
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