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The Pedestal

Name: The Pedestal
Rating: 2.6

5.10b/c YDS 6b French 20 Ewbanks VII UIAA 20 ZA E2 5b British

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	A Friendly Bush S 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	A Slow Motion Classic Car Crash S 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	Bashful S 5.10a/b 6a+ 19 VI+ 19 E2 5b
	Big Thompson Yard Sale, The S 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	Classic, The T 5.8+ 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	Corbel S 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
	Counting Sheep S 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
	Domino Theory S 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b
	Egg Shell Fairy, The S 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
	Everybody Pushes a Broom S 5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c
	Friend Or Bro? S 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	Girl's Always Right, The S 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	Green Hornet S 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
	Guided By Angles S 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
	Hard to Reed S 5.10a/b 6a+ 19 VI+ 19 E2 5b
	I'm Not Your Mother S 5.10b/c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b
	Indifferent S 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
	Love Again S 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
	Monoped S 5.10d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b
	Near Miss Adventure S 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b
	No-No Blox, The S 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
	Pedestal, The S 5.10b/c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b
	Rainbird S 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
	Redbird (aka Ladybird) S 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b
	Severe Tire Damage S 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	Sitting Pretty S 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b
	Tenacious S 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a

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Type:	Sport, 110 ft (33 m)
GPS:	40.42159, -105.24011
FA:	Craig Zimmerman, Fred AmRhein, May 2017
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Shared By:	Fred AmRhein on Sep 21, 2018
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Access Issue: Access issue - Monastery, Cedar Park, Combat Rock, etc. - open since 2023 Details

Update: per Bruce Hildenbrand: the area has been open since 2023.

Per JF M: as of May 2022, there is no signage on-site, nor information on the USFS webpage for the Cameron Peak Fire (nor on their published map of closures) that indicates the area is closed.

Per Bruce Hildenbrand: it appears that the Forest Service has closed access to all the climbing areas accessed via Storm Mountain Road (Monastery, Cedar Park, Combat Rock, etc.) until they can clear all the dangerous dead trees from the Cameron Peak fire.

I worked this issue with Eric Murdock at the AF, and it looks like the Forest Service picked Devil's Gulch Road as the southern boundary even though all the climbing areas on MP.com were not burned.

Description

Start from the left boulder at an easy-to-clip bolt (stick clipping the second bolt isn’t a bad idea to keep the rope and climber from being scraped up in case the bouldery start becomes problematic). Head up the easy face to a ledge and some broken rock. Go left of the bush (if it is still there...), and proceed to stand up on the pedestal (you’ll find it no problem). Once up on the dais, head up the technical face. Staying left is probably more intense; heading right puts you on or near Bashful. Both ways are nice!

Location

From the west, traverse along the cliff bottom, and step down a few steps at a cave-like overhang. Continue east under a buttress (the start of Rainbird and Redbird) around to a corner (Tenacious), and find a large boulder, the Impact Zone (so-called due to the propensity for plunging projectiles to impact in that area). Continue under and beyond the IZ Boulder, and find a severely undercut face with some smaller boulders beneath it. The Pedestal is the left route and Bashful is the right route.