PRINT: Rock Climb Birthday Boy, City of Rocks

Birthday Boy

5.10a, Trad, 110 ft (33 m),

Avg: 1 from 1 vote
FA: Brian Cabe & Patricia Black, August 5 2001
Idaho > S Idaho > City of Rocks > Building Blocks > Building Blocks - West

Access Issue: (1) Weather Wall, Yellow Wall, & all the crags north of Twin Sisters are CLOSED. (2) There are no longer trash cans in the park. (3) Highlining ban in place for CIRO and CRSP Details

(1) The area, crags, and routes just north of the Twin Sisters are on private land and the landowner posted no trespassing notices at the gated road/trail to the area. Any access of these areas and routes is trespassing. The area was closed by the landowner due to trespassing, illegal camping, fires & trash, and disregard of owner's privacy.
Please be respectful of the land owner's wishes and do not climb or hike here. This includes White Lightning, Skinner Roof, Weather Wall, Yellow Wall, Larry's Annihilation, Needle Rock, Mississippi Fred's, and Secret Tom's.
(2) In 2024 CIRO implemented a no trash cans anywhere policy. Be prepared to take your trash home with you. facebook.com/CityOfRocksNPS… and nps.gov/ciro/planyourvisit/…
(3) HIGHLINING IS PROHIBITED
Highlining at City of Rocks National Reserve and Castle Rocks State Park is prohibited as of August 28, 2019.

Here are Google Drive links to the closure and the updated Code of Regulations for CIRO. drive.google.com/open?id=1y… and drive.google.com/open?id=1Y…

Description

Fun diversion with a bit of rope drag up nice features to the summit ridge, then over to the anchor on Lego.

Climb up thin cracks and face just left of the imposing roof area of Vicegrips. Traverse out the diving board feature atop that roofy area. Climb up steep face on good features to a nice finish hand crack at the top.

Location

Located to the right of the 5.10/5.11 "Trad Line" area mentioned in the DB guide. Just left of the "Vice Grips" area.

Rappel Lego.

Protection

Gear from .5" to 4". No fixed gear and no anchor directy on top of route.

Long slings nice for any gear placed near the traverse up the slanting diving board feature. Rope drag can be an issue on this route!

Traverse to anchor on Lego for a rappel to the ground.

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Route topo showing the location of "Birthday Boy"