Midway up Angel's Way, Summer 2015.

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Midway up Angel's Way, Summer 2015.

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Travis Briles

Dec 10, 2016

“Midway up Angel's Way, Summer 2015.”

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Jay Eggleston Denver

Great, fun route! Dec 10, 2016

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Looking down at clouds pouring into Skunk Canyon from near the top of the route.

Enjoying a beautiful foggy morning on Angel's Way.

View from halfway up Angel's Way. The Back Porch is the prominent pinnacle above Warren on the skyline.

Fun knife edge on the way. This really is a great route.

Our GPS track. We started from NCAR (follow track clockwise). The yellow dot is where the summit is for this climbing route, we think. Either way, easy climb. Great climb. Getting there was more exciting than the climb. Lot of bush whacking....

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Belay after P3 just above layback crack.

Looking up P1-2.

Here is the opening "crux" Roach talks about. Pretty casual compared to other 5.0s he rates.

Fun, fun, fun.

Eddie finishing up the amazing and exposed Angel's Way, Skunk Canyon, Flatirons.

Climb the East face of the final summit blk - should be 5 1/2 pitches to this pt.

When you hit this wall on P6, go just right of pro and make 5.6 move. Maybe something easier further rt?

Looking up at P3.

Looking down Angel's Way from maybe a third of the way up.

Another photo of the layback crack. You can see how low angle it is. Super easy and great fun!

Midway up Angel's Way, Summer 2015.

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P9 was the downclimb from summit ridge, traverse east and belay on north block. P10 was short traverse to tree on west face. Rap'd 30' east from tree vs. tricky downclimb. West side rap > 100'?

Looking back down on the route from the false summit block.

Mark a few feet from the final summit of Angel's Way.

Looking down from a third of the way up on maybe the sharpest section of the ridgeline I climbed.

Start with diagonal crack.

Cranking the sweet layback on Angel's Way!

P7 start on final summit east face. Diag crack with dead lichen - maybe no one does this route - but it was fun.

Scrambling high over Boulder on Angel's Way, Skunk Canyon, Flatirons.

P7 (25m) led to big bucket for 3 with 8" off-width start to P8. For P8 we decided to go left around block at top (who knows what lies ahead) vs. easier traverse rt.

View from the summit.

Angel's Way.

Ahh, a cool narrow ledge around the big block ... on to the summit from here.

We got a little off route and decided to rope up for a bit, glad we brought the rope......even though it only protected me for one 5.6/7 move to get back on route. Gabe enjoying the view.

Ther perfect Layback crack (made to look harder than it is).

Luke Toillion on Angel's Way.

The dike that runs up the first part of the route.

Gabe soaking up the view.

Overview photo of Ridges 2, 3, and 4.

Gabe on the killer corner. What a scramble!!