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In Your Face
5.11b,
Sport, 60 ft (18 m),
Avg: 3.1 from 9
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FA: Jeff Landers ~ 1990
Idaho
> W Idaho
> Black Cliffs
> Face Canyon
Access Issue: 2024 Seasonal raptor closures: Scary Canyon, Face Canyon, Highway Face, Steep Wall, Far Side, and Nixon Head (updated 3/15/24)
Details
Adding new bolts, new anchors, and new routes at the Black Cliffs are currently NOT ALLOWED pending a BLM environmental assessment. Significant trail work is also on hold. Please contact the Boise Climbers Alliance with questions or for additional information
Description
Enjoy the starting few easy moves to the first bolt, as they are the last you'll get. Sustained stemming and crimping on small but positive edges are the norm for the rest of the way up the face/corner.
After you're nice and pumped from the small crimps on the first 2/3 of the route, the widely spaced jugs at the bulge may seem a bit harder to hang onto than they feel like they should. Once on top of the bulge positive edges and pockets take you up the slightly more than vertical finishing face.
Stellar!
Location
This route is the light colored dihedral 40 feet right of Surf's Up.
Protection
5 bolts + 2 bolt anchor. You can place a small cam (purple C4 worked well) in a horizontal crack 3 or 4 feet above the last bolt to protect the final moves if you want.
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safeclimbing.org Apr 14, 2021