Type: Sport, 115 ft (35 m)
FA: L. Bear, Pink; Shred, T.; Lover, G.
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Shared By: Orphaned User on Sep 20, 2018
Admins: Leo Paik, John McNamee, Frances Fierst, Monty, Monomaniac, Tyler KC

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Purple Serpent is the right of the two sport climbs currently on the south face of the Devil's Advocate and climbs directly out the wall on steepening rock to a wild finish on the wave-like swell. A 70-METER ROPE is MANDATORY!

Climb an easy slab to the hueco'ed face, which continues with fun, ever-steepening jug hauling to an anchor at two-thirds height. Stop here if you want at 5.10+, or clip the right anchor bolt, then keep going up the wavy, sculpted headwall above, which features continuously bouldery climbing off the belay along "tufa serps" to a good rest (left kneepad helpful) to a boulder-problem finish out the final black bulge. Bring your crimping power.

Many thanks to OSMP, the FCC, and the FHRC for keeping new-routing in the Flatirons alive and well.

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It is the rightmost of two sport routes on the south face of the Advocate and is more or less dead-center on the wall.

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16 or 17 bolts.

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