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Flying Buttress Rock Climbing

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Routes in Flying Buttress

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	Hanging Gardens S 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b
	Supersonic S 5.9- 5c 17 VI 16 HVS 4c

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Access Issue: Road closure and reopened after flood damage! Details

Per Steven Armijo: Cheyenne Canyon Road is closed until May 2022 for bridge repairs. Only hiking and biking trail access is allowed into the canyon.

Per Stewart M. Green: the North Cheyenne Canyon was reopened after the floods of 2015.

Per Stewart M. Green: ATTENTION!! The Colorado Springs Parks Department has CLOSED ALL CITY PARKS, including Garden of the Gods, Red Rock Canyon Open Space, and North Cheyenne Canon, to rock climbing for the upcoming Memorial Day weekend.

This is due to record rainfall totals in western Colorado Springs which as caused severe trail and parking lot damage, saturated the sandstone cliffs, and is causing parts of cliffs to break off.

The parks will be re-evaluated on Monday to determine how the closure will last.

Please respect the closures and take care of our precious climbing areas!

Description

This is a prominent buttress, just west of the Amphitheater. 2 very nice multi-pitch routes go up the buttress, and more lurk around the corner, uphill.

Getting There

Follow the approach for North Cheyenne Canyon, using the parking area 0.85 miles after the canyon begins. Approach as for the Amphitheater. As the steep gully splits right to go into the amphitheater, look for a faint trail, going west along the base of a cliff. Follow this trail up a steep hill, using switchbacks and whatever else occasions itself. Look for a fairly large tree on a ledge that marks the start of the 2 routes on the buttress. You beneath the tree to the west and cut back to the east in some bushes to the start of the ledge that will take you up to the tree. Continue uphill for more routes.

Per Kevin Earls: from The Pikes Peak guide by Stewart Green "150 feet up the road" (from the rock foot bridge) just past the Pinnacle is the start of the trail that leads up a very loose steep scree gully. 1/3 of the way up this gully a faint trail leads off to the right (West) and switchbacks up -->400 feet<-- of loose steep trail to the ledge with the pine tree. Expect 30 minutes of climbing scree just to get to the base of the routes.