Red Rock Canyon - Geronimo Anchors/Rappels

Hi everyone! I have a few questions for anyone who has climbed Geronimo in Red Rock Canyon.  I've done a lot of research with the Handren guide and on MP, but it's not very clear to me what the situation is with anchors as well as rappels.  Firstly, is every pitch a bolted anchor or are all of them (or some of them) trad anchors?

Regarding the rappels, the newer comments on MP seem to imply that this route is now able to be descended with a single rope, is this true?  If so, we have an 80m rope and wanted to know if this would suffice?  And also, like my first question regarding anchors, where are all of these rappel stations located on the route?  

We are hoping to take a trip to Red Rock to climb this route towards the end of March so any information is greatly appreciated!  Also if anyone has a photo of the route in its whole with rough marks as to where the anchors and rappel stations are that would be amazing and I would be even more grateful!

The description on the main page of mountain project seems clear that you can rap it with a single 60m line.

that said, I’ve climbed more than my share of moderate multi pitch in red rock, and Geronimo is one of the few I’d probably never repeat. While pleasant, the shenanigans required to climb it and rappel it make it mediocre at best, and not nearly as good as many of its neighbors. 

Random Climberwrote:

The description on the main page of mountain project seems clear that you can rap it with a single 60m line.

that said, I’ve climbed more than my share of moderate multi pitch in red rock, and Geronimo is one of the few I’d probably never repeat. While pleasant, the shenanigans required to climb it and rappel it make it mediocre at best, and not nearly as good as many of its neighbors. 

this^ ...a fun route at that grade is cookie to cat.

Big Bwrote:

this^ ...a fun route at that grade is cookie to cat.

Ebony way is significantly better than Cookie Monster and starts literally 10 ft away from it.
Let’s stop encouraging massive queues on the same ten routes when the park has thousands of quality lines. 

Raps with a single 60m now. The new anchors are glue-ins with red epoxy, hard to miss, and are along the standard rappel which has adequate description on the Geronimo page. There's also a new anchor climbers right of the first pitch anchor which can help keep the ropes from getting stuck.

I did this route for the first time about 5 years ago and I was surprised how perfectly lovely and fun it was for the rating.  I tell you what I remember.  As to the belay anchors, as far as I can recall, you build your own.  The first two pitches end up on large ledges - look at the photo in HandrenII, it shows how big they are. By necessity for being able to pull the rope, the anchors are near the edge of these two ledges, so you walk from the edge to the back of the ledges to start climbing the next pitch, so that is where you build your anchor.  Honestly I can't remember if I even bothered building an anchor for either of them - maybe one piece for the second one.  Handren describes the cams that work for the belay at the top of the third pitch. The fourth pitch tops out at the rap anchor, but I may have clipped it and walked futher back and built an anchor there to have a more comfortable stance. We rapped it using 2 60 meter ropes and had no problems but the description for the new anchors that allows an easy one rope rap with a 60 meter rope seems quite clear.  I can't imagine you'd have any issues with it.

There are tons of photos of the route on the route page.  If you have the MP app on your phone you will be able to look at them if you feel uncertain. Have fun!

Big Bwrote:

this^ ...a fun route at that grade is cookie to cat.

Second this one.  Been on both.   But Only one of the two more than once.  :)

Geronimo was my first real multi-pitch and I will always remember it.  It was super fun with a couple exposed parts that made me want to throw up a little bit - lol it was awesome!  Overall, the climbing was easy.  Glad to hear there are some new glue in rap rings and anchor to help with rope getting stuck.  The rope pull shenanigans are real, Geronimo eats ropes- I like the idea of bringing a tag line or a second rope for this... just in case.  I also remember it being in sun all day - bring water!  Have fun!