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Airborne Froth 
Arch Nemesis 
Astro Turkey 
Buckshot 
Coppertone 
Deception Past 
Don't mess with my Thing 
Equinox 
Everything Just Feels Like Rain 
Fallen Angels 
Far Reaches 
Forrest Route 
Four Friends 
Fred the Crack 
Gonzo's Lament 
Interceptor 
Meat Cleaver, The 
Moot Point 
Muddy Past 
Promised Road 
Riders on the Storm 
Rip Van Winkle 
Squatter's Rights 
Standard Route 
Turkey Foot Crack 
Wear Cattle 

Sunshine Wall 


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Description 

Sunshine Wall is a fine wall located to the W of Cynical Pinnacle with some fine, moderate-length routes in the moderate range. In particular, Turkey Foot Crack, Standard Route, and Equinox are likely to delight.


Getting There 

Park at the large parking area and follow the old logging road past a switchback and across the mostly dry streambed, then start looking for a cairn and a faint trail on your right. This will lead straight uphill to the left side of the Sunshine Wall.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Sunshine Wall:
Turkey Foot Crack   5.9     Trad   
Muddy Past   5.9     Trad, 1 pitch, 60 feet   
Gonzo's Lament   5.9     Trad, 4 pitches, 330 feet   
Wear Cattle   5.9+     Trad, 1 pitch, 95 feet   
Rip Van Winkle   5.10a     Trad, 1 pitch, 170 feet   
Fallen Angels   5.10b     Trad, 2 pitches, 170 feet   
Deception Past   5.10b     Trad, 1 pitch, 80 feet   
Buckshot   5.10c     Trad, 3 pitches, 200 feet   
The Meat Cleaver   5.10+     Trad, 3 pitches   
Equinox   5.11a     Trad, 4 pitches, 400 feet, Grade II   
Standard Route   5.11- R     Trad, 5 pitches, 400 feet, Grade II   
Astro Turkey   5.11b     Trad, 1 pitch   
Arch Nemesis   5.12a     Trad, 1 pitch, 70 feet   
Far Reaches   5.12c     Trad, 1 pitch, 100 feet   
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Featured Route For Sunshine Wall
The first and second pitch.

Standard Route 5.11- R  CO : South Platte : ... : Sunshine Wall
This climb is on the Sunshine Wall. To reach it, park in the larger parking lot and follow an obvious trail. When the trail is fairly level and straight, start looking for a trail that takes-off to the right. Usually, there is a small cairn marking it. Slog your way up this trail for several more minutes until you reach the cliff. Head right and look for an obvious chalked flake system with 2 bolts near the bottom. This is the route that has your name on it.P1 (10+/11-) - hop onto a block ...[more]   Browse More Classics in CO


Photos of Sunshine Wall Slideshow Add Photo
Pat Peddy leading Airborne Froth 5.11a with the birds checking out the action.

Pat Peddy leading Airborne Froth 5.11a with the bi...

Sunset atop Sunshine Wall, Feb 09.  Gets cold quick this time of year (duh!).  Glad I got a puffy waiting for me on the deck.

Sunset atop Sunshine Wall, Feb 09. Gets cold quic...

On top of the Standard Route.

On top of the Standard Route.

Turkey Foot Tower.

Turkey Foot Tower.

Sunshine Wall right before sunset.

Sunshine Wall right before sunset.

Sunshine Wall with late morning shadows....

Sunshine Wall with late morning shadows....

Volunteer trail work on the "new" trail up to Sunshine Wall.  Mike Morin cracking "the whip" to get things done (or in this case, a chain saw).

Volunteer trail work on the "new" trail up to Suns...

Temporary sign for the cut-off to the new trail.  Should be hard to miss!

Temporary sign for the cut-off to the new trail. ...


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By Joshua Merriam
From: Boulder, CO
Sep 11, 2007

Ouch! went to do standard route today with Aaron Lucas. At the top of the Third pitch, when we were supposed to go right to some bolted 5.10, we got suckered into a line of 6 bolts up some continuous, hard slab left of the belay. It's not in either book I looked at, or on the site. Anyone know what it is?

By Kevin Stricker
From: Evergreen, CO
Sep 11, 2007

The route is called Sunkist and the 3rd pitch you climbed is 12a. (edit: we finally redpointed this pitch on 2/10/08 and I guess I sandbagged you a bit. The pitch is more realistically 12 b/c.

By Jason Kaplan
From: Glenwood ,Co
Dec 8, 2008

What is the seam just left of Gonzo's with a fixed pin, just right of some bolted left facing flake route. Looked like a thin nailing route... is this an aid line?

By Darren Mabe
From: Flagstaff, AZ
Dec 9, 2008

Jason, it is "Far Reaches", 5.12.

By Christopher Jones
From: Denver, Colorado
Jan 3, 2009

I wish I read about Joshua's mistake before going up the Standard route yesterday. I thought I was on the hardest 5.10 slab in the Platte. Did a little aid climbing at each bolt but still had to make some free moves between bolts. Took a couple long falls. The bolts really look like they are part of the Standard Route. Nice job Kevin, I hope to free it sometime down the road.