Wings of Desire 5.11b
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| Type: | Sport, 1 pitch, 160 feet |
| Consensus: | 5.11b [details] |
| FA: | Richard Rossiter, Morris Hershoff, Leah Macaluso, 1998 |
| Submitted By: | Ivan Rezucha on May 6, 2004 |
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BETA PHOTO: Left side of Sleeping Beauty.
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Description This is referred to as "The Awakening" in Rossiter's Boulder Canyon guide.
This is a long pitch with several hard sections. On the easier climbing, the bolts are further apart to keep you focused.
Approach: See Richard Rossiter's site for the approach to Sleeping Beauty:www.boulderclimbs.com/climbing/sleeping.html.
At the left side of Ledge Two, to the right of where the trail meets the cliff, is a tree growing against the rock and touching the overhang about 10' up. 15' left of the tree is a hand crack through the overhang. That's Kama Sutra, 10d. Start 8' right of this tree. Climb the ceiling at about 5.10, angle right, and then make some hard thin moves back left at the 4th bolt across a steep slab. The 5th bolt is hidden in the dish above. Don't move right at this steep slab. The silver bolts to the right are MLK. Angle left on easy rock below some serious moss and then up a steep slab with a short hard section. Continue up an easier slab at about 5.9 connecting a series of rounded, right-facing flakes to a sloping ledge with a 2-bolt anchor. Rappel with two ropes.
Protection 16 bolts with a 2-bolt anchor. A few long slings would be useful. The rope gets pretty heavy near the top due to rope drag. Two ropes to rappel.
| Comments on Wings of Desire |
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By brent pohlmann
From: San Francisco, CA
Aug 4, 2004
| Great route. Take the advice on using the long runners down low. Found myself yelling at my belayer for slack at the thin crux clip, when really I screwed up!! A little dirty near the top, so watch the feet. Otherwise a great route. |
By Bruce Pech
Aug 6, 2004
rating: 5.11b
| Fun with several hard moves -- mostly high steps -- betwen the 7th bolt and the anchors. Less fun but more exciting if: (1) you get suckered into climbing straight up at the 5th bolt and, after falling off the crux of MLK twice, realize you're off route and have to downclimb to the 5th bolt to continue; and (2) only have one 60m rope and have to rap 40' to the MLK anchors and then 100' to the ledge in a torrential rain and hail storm. |
By Kevin Neilson
From: Boulder
Aug 25, 2009
| I thought this was a great, long route with several thin slabby crux moves. Despite the warnings, I too ended up on MLK for a couple of bolts and had to traverse back. To stay on Wings, you have to go through a runout mossy section to an invisible bolt above. Not obvious at all. Take a lot of draws. |
By slim
Sep 13, 2010
| Didn't see the 5th bolt "hidden in a dish" (who the F#$% hides a bolt in a dish?) and found the poorly protected, slippery move up and right pretty scary. After climbing the easy section below, which had bolts every 3 feet (usually with good cracks nearby) the potential groundfall on the slippery crux kind of formed my opinion of this route. |
By Mark E Dixon
From: Boulder, CO
Oct 1, 2012
| Words of advice - a single 70 meter rope will NOT get you back to the ground. |
By Mason Stansfield
From: Boulder
4 days ago
| I used a single 70 meter rope today and rapped to the ground with no problem. |
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