Nine Lives Arete  V5

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Type:  Boulder Consensus:  V4 [details] FA:  Hanson, Sills, late '80s Submitted By:  Andy Librande on Nov 17, 2007 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (8) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

Nine Lives Boulder with Rambo. 7/26/2009.

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Description 

Located on the seclusive Nine Lives boulder, the arete offers a great problem in an awesome location.

Beta: Left hand in a tiny pocket with a drop-knee starts the problem. Move through sharp pockets to a large left-hand pinch. Put-up a high right heel-hook and then reach for a decent slot (heel-hook is key for the static move, otherwise just launching to the slot is a ton of fun). Reach-up past the side-pull to a crimp, find feet and throw to the back of the bulge to find something to hold onto; work your toes-up and pull the mantle. Now you have another 20 feet of easy and exciting slab climbing.

Location 

To find this boulder ignore the directions in the Colorado Bouldering guidebook. Approach is actually decent(compared to a lot of the other bouldering in the wood).

Park in the “West Trail Head” parking lot at the North Entrance (the one just south of the port-o-potty area) and take the trail that heads towards the river/mud-cliffs. This trail goes through some switch-backs and right after that you come to a fork in the road. Take the path on your right (heading south) for only 15-20 feet and you will notice a ravine heading towards the river. Follow this ravine down to the river and be mindful of the path you take as the erosion in this area is high. On the otherside of the river there is a fallen pine tree that is where you will climb out of the riverbed at onto flat ground. 50 yards past the tree the Nine Lives Boulder sits in all of its glory. Of course you can always take the bush-whacking route and start at the falls area river crossing and head north for a while staying near the cliffs.

Protection 

Landing is flat, however the crux is high. Several pads are useful and a spotter once you get to the crux area.

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Chris pulling over the crux on the Nine Lives Boul...	Chris at the slot right below the crux.	Andy working the arete.
Stephen at the top of the crux trying to get over ...