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Refugium

Name: Refugium
Rating: 1.8

5.10a YDS 6a French 18 Ewbanks VI+ UIAA 18 ZA E1 5a British

Routes in Arrowhead

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	Airhead T 5.11+ 7a 24 VIII 24 E4 6a
	Arrowplane T 5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c
	Artemis T 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
	Bequeathed T 5.10d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b R
	Broken Arrow T 5.10+ 6b+ 21 VII+ 20 E3 5b PG13
	Country Life T 5.10+ 6b+ 21 VII+ 20 E3 5b
	Diamond Back T 5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b R
	East Face/Arrowhead T 5.4 4a 12 IV 10 VD 3c
	Full Metal Jacket T 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b
	Gimme Shelter T 5.11a/b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c
	Glacier Gorge Traverse T 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b
	Godfather, The T 5.11a/b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c PG13
	Ithaca T 5.11+ 7a 24 VIII 24 E4 6a
	Lost Arrowhead T 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a PG13
	Orange Pillar T 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a PG13
	Rain Dance T 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
	Ramp Tramp T 5.8+ 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	Refugium T 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
	Ripsaw/Northeast Ridge T 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
	Shaft, The T 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b
	Shoshone T 5.10- 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
	Sidewinder T 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b
	South Ramp T Easy 5th 1+ 3 I 5 M 1c
	Thai Hot T 5.11- 6c 22 VIII- 22 E3 5c C1 R
	V-Free T 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b
	Warhead T 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
	Watership Down T 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
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Type:	Trad, Alpine, Grade III
GPS:	40.2683, -105.65
FA:	Jon Allen and Doug Byerly
Page Views:	2,177 total · 7/month
Shared By:	paco on May 31, 2001
Admins:	Leo Paik, John McNamee, Frances Fierst, Monty, Monomaniac, Tyler KC Page Updates (admin only)

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Access Issue: Closures Details

Seasonal closures Feb. 15-July 31. Per the Denver Post:, the Cathedral Wall and all areas above the Loch Vale-Sky Pond Trail are closed to off-trail travel! Per this RMNP website, "Initial closures now occur in Feb. 15 and April, when raptors return to the region and scout for nesting sites. Areas containing general habitat preferred by raptors are closed during this time. Once raptors have selected nesting spots, the initial closures are lifted or adjusted. The specific areas which raptors choose for nesting sites are closed."

For additional information about raptor closures, please visit the Rocky Mountain National Parks area closures website.

General NPS climbing regulations for RMNP posted here.

Description

Refugium was one of the "new" routes to be put up on Arrowhead in the last few years. Although this route has some nice pitches. I'd strongly disagree with the three stars this route received in the new Gillett guide.

If you come to do this route, make sure you do another route in the same day. This is the only way I could justify the somewhat epic approach. We did Refugium, ran half way down the Summit Ramp and then did Rain Dance starting at its quality pitches.

Much of Refugium's lower half is broken with ramps and ledges. Simul climbing works for you, cruise the first three pitches in one to the base of the 1st 5.8 pitch. From there, you can link the last three pitches in two with a 60m rope. The last three (or two w/60m rope) pitches are the best pitches of the route.

While it's certainly not a three star route. You will be rewarded with over all good rock and some long lost solitude.