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Counter Balance

5.10c/d PG13, Sport, 50 ft (15 m),  Avg: 2 from 30 votes
FA: unknown
Colorado > Canon City > Shelf Rd > Dark Side

Description

This is the right hand route on the QOB pinnacle. The first bolt is 20 feet up and can't be clipped until you do a mid-5.10 move. You can place a #1 Camalot in a pocket to the left.

There is some interesting movement, but there are number of awkward and sharp sections. The crux is near the top using arete pinches and sidepulls with bad feet.

Location

This is the right hand route on the QOB pinnacle.

Protection

4-5 bolts and an optional #1 Camalot.

Per Usux Atclimbing: consider a stickclip.

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A view from the base.
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Doug Lintz
Kearney, NE
 
[Hide Comment] Technical with multiple cruxes. Don't blow the difficult first clip, the fall would suck. May 25, 2008
Bapgar 1
Out of the Loop
 
[Hide Comment] Definitely stickclipped the first bolt. Some actual climbing on less than inspiring rock to get to said bolt. Sep 19, 2010
slim

  5.10c
[Hide Comment] Some awkward thought provoking climbing on this one. Weird barndooring with some attempts at flagging against the air. Probably not harder than 10c but not exactly straightforward. May 6, 2012
Michael Botkin
Fort Collins, CO
  5.10d PG13
[Hide Comment] Extremely awkward and definitely not a warm-up route. May 6, 2015
Greg Daughtry
Boulder, CO
 
[Hide Comment] Very, very hard for the grade unless you are 6+ ft tall. The first bolt is stupidly high. Felt way harder than the 10d and 11as to the left - and not by a little bit. Very thin, and sharp on top of awkward. 1 star only because 0 isn't an option. May 7, 2018
Usux Atclimbing
 
[Hide Comment] Stellar face climbing. Y'all don't like it, cuz it was hard!! Whoever did the new glue-ins did a hack job! The top anchors have no glue in them!!!!! and studs never got cut! I would not climb this route until the anchors have been reglued. Oct 7, 2020
Aaron Glasenapp
Denver, CO
 
[Hide Comment] I fixed the poor rebolt job. The old studs have now been removed, and the bad glue-in job at the anchors has been fixed. Stickclip the first bolt, and this route is safe again. Oct 10, 2022