Early Access
| Type: | Sport, 60 ft (18 m) |
| GPS: | 40.31175, -105.54181 |
| FA: | Claude Traufield |
| Page Views: | 3,188 total · 16/month |
| Shared By: | Leo Paik on Aug 14, 2010 |
| Admins: | Leo Paik, John McNamee, Frances Fierst, Monty, Monomaniac, Tyler KC |
Previously: per Matt B: this area is currently closed to all visitors due to temporary RMNP closures. The entire parking area is blocked off. Please do not threaten access to this area by climbing during this closure to all visitors.
Description
This is another sport climb on near vertical, gritty, featured rock that will need some traffic to clean up.
Ascend easy terrain past 3 bolts starting on a micro-Flatiron. Then there is a longish reach around the 4th bolt. Dance right (cruxish), up, then left. Note, the 6th bolt leaves your top biner dangling partway over an edge, so I don't recommend falling on the 6th bolt. Perhaps a rounded hanger would allow threading a sling? The terrain eases up, and you gain the two bolt anchor.
This route currently leaves one a bit cautious pulling on flakes and trusting edges. This is adventure sport climbing.
Note, Claude indicated he felt the route clocks in at 8+. Per Claude, "it was named after a small extinct creature that managed to survive for a time during and after the era of the thunder lizards. There's even a picture of what it was thought to look like on Wikipedia." Thanks, Claude!
Per Bruce Hildenbrand: because of the distance between the 4th and 5th bolts, if the leader falls or blows the clip at the 5th bolt, they are looking at a 25+' fall onto a big ledge. Be careful!
Location
This is left of Byrontosaurus perhaps 100 feet, past a flake-filled groove, near a moderate-sized tree.



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