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Soprano

5.10d, Sport, 70 ft (21 m),  Avg: 2.6 from 94 votes
FA: MJM & RAMM, 12/2013
Colorado > Canon City > Shelf Rd > Bank > 02. Bank Rob

Description

You get easy climbing with good feet and techy fingers to C1, then you get some reachy pockets to clip C2. At C2, move up and right for really good pockets right of C3. A fingery side pulley section gets you to C4. A cruxy section from to C5 to C7 lands you at a great rest under the upper bulge. Pull the crux bulge on the left with thinker/sharp/steep holds and tricky feet to vertical, cruxy moves to the anchors.

Location

At The Bank Rob, this is in between Baby Face Nelson & R.A.M.M..

Protection & Vitals

10 clips to Mussy hooks provided by https://www.safeclimbing.org.

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Coming down from Soprano. This is the route on the arete.
[Hide Photo] Coming down from Soprano. This is the route on the arete.

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Tim Cooney
Baltimore, MD
 
[Hide Comment] This is a fun route with an interesting start to a nice, burly overhang at the top. You have a good rest right in the middle then a lot of pockets for the top section (lots of loose dirt in those too!). Sep 18, 2017
Rebecca G
Crested Butte, CO
  5.10c
[Hide Comment] I really enjoyed this one. Stickclipped bolt 2 to avoid possible groundfall.... Don't let the reference to "reachy pockets" deter you if you're on the short side. At 5'0", I didn't find it reachy at all. The super close bolting also means you can feel really confident taking a few risks. Good variety of options on this one and some nice flowy movement. I'm surprised it doesn't see more traffic. Felt a little soft at the grade. Jan 11, 2023