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Golden Road

Name: Golden Road
Rating: 3.6

5.11c YDS 6c+ French 24 Ewbanks VIII- UIAA 24 ZA E4 6a British

Routes in (d) Dana's Arch Area

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	Another Man's Car T 5.11c 6c+ 24 VIII- 24 E4 6a
	Back Road, The T 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
	Beat Box S 5.11d 7a 24 VIII 25 E5 6a
	Brett Thompson and Scott Fuller Memorial Route, The T 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b
	Confused for Daze S 5.13b 8a 29 IX+ 30 E7 6c
	Crimson Eye, The T 5.11 6c+ 23 VIII- 23 E4 5c
	Dana's Arch S 5.11 6c+ 23 VIII- 23 E4 5c
	Dana's Arch Complete (Aid) A3
	DGS T 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
	Golden Road S 5.11c 6c+ 24 VIII- 24 E4 6a
	Heaven's Gate T,S 5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c
	Jungle Fun S 5.11c 6c+ 24 VIII- 24 E4 6a
	Legends Ride Free T,TR 5.11- 6c 22 VIII- 22 E3 5c
	Open Project S 5.15- 9a+ 36 XI+ 37 E11 7c
	Pencil Thin Mustache T 5.12a 7a+ 25 VIII+ 25 E5 6a
	Psilocybe Cyanescens T 5.11b/c 6c+ 23 VIII- 24 E4 6a
	Ruthless Objectification of Dan Kluskiewicz, The T 5.11- 6c 22 VIII- 22 E3 5c
	Slug Within, The S 5.14a 8b+ 32 X+ 32 E8 7a
	Tempitchuous S 5.12a 7a+ 25 VIII+ 25 E5 6a
	Wildest Dreams T 5.12- 7a+ 25 VIII+ 25 E5 6a

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Type:	Sport, 380 ft (115 m), 5 pitches
GPS:	47.82354, -121.56683
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Description

A modern classic! This is an amazing climb, with good variety and beautiful stone. All pitches are just under 30m and can be quickly rapped with a 60m rope.

P1: Boulder past two bolts, then walk right on the ledge to an arete. Cruxy moves bring one up, into the crack, and to the belay just up and left of a sloping ledge stance. (Note, this pitch may work better broken into two pitches, with a ledge fall possible if done in one pitch). This pitch is now 5.10 and takes no gear.

P2: Delicate and sequency climbing leads up past a flake, and rightward through an intricate sequence of moves back onto the arete. 5.11

P3:Up the arete on impossibly good holds, with a short crux near the end of the pitch. 5.10+

P4: Stem or smear your way up to the base of the roof, and reach high for holds to get you through. Continue up to the belay. 5.11-

P5: Up a cruxy layback sequence on sharp rock, then past the big roof on big holds. Tenuous climbing above the roof keeps you on your toes until the chains. 5.11+

Location

This route follows the plumb-line arete to the right of Heavens Gate, and left of Davis-Holland. The route begins on a huge boulder/flake leaning against the wall, and stays just left of the chimney system for its entire length.