Type: | Sport, 70 ft (21 m) |
FA: | Carl Sampurna & Mark Roth, Oct. 6, 2022 |
Page Views: | 611 total · 21/month |
Shared By: | Carl Sampurna on Oct 6, 2022 |
Admins: | Leo Paik, John McNamee, Frances Fierst, Monty, Monomaniac, Tyler KC |
See: bouldercolorado.gov/service….
Click here for the trail closures. Some are M-F, some are 24/7. These impact the Bear Canyon/Fern Canyon regions primarily:
flatironsclimbing.org/tempo…
Click here bouldercolorado.gov/service… for the latest in raptor closures.
bouldercolorado.gov/service…: lifted 7/26/23: Third Flatiron, including Queen Anne’s Head, W.C Fields Pinnacle, 1911 Gully and the Ghetto, the East Bench & West Bench, the East & West Ironing Boards, The Fin, Green Thumb and Jaws.
Update from the Flatirons Climbing Council July 2021: due to late nesting of peregrine falcons this year (2021), this area is closed until ~Aug. 12, 2021.
Information on OSMP wildlife closures, which help to protect sensitive habitats, can be viewed at:
bouldercolorado.gov/service…
maps.bouldercolorado.gov/wi…
The following crags are closed 1 February to 31 July:
First Pinnacle (Gregory Canyon)
Second Pinnacle (Gregory Canyon)
Third Pinnacle (Gregory Canyon)
Third Flatiron
Queen Anne's Head
WC Fields Pinnacle
The Ghetto
East Ironing Board
West Ironing Board
The Fin
Green Thumb
Jaws
Updated details may be found here.
osmpwildlifeclosures.org.
Description
Pandammic is fun and pumpy and may feel harder during an onsight. The foot holds are generally better than the hand holds, except at the start & finish.
The start is a tough and reachy traverse left with only a few well-disguised, usable footholds on the way to a far-left jug.
The pocketed terrain above is easier, but some huecos between bolts 3-5 are much better than others, so choose wisely. Rest up if the start felt draining.
Bolts 6-8 bracket the crux, with marginal crimps, pinches, and sidepulls above decent foot holds.
No-hands resting is available just above the crux-exit jug.
The route finishes to the right at the last bolt, following slopers to a thin crimp on the lip, and an anchor-clipping jug hiding a bit further back, to the left.
Thanks to Mark Roth and the Flatirons Climbing Council for their indispensable help with this route!
Historical note - Jason's Flatirons guidebook has a similar line called "Two Bolt Mystery Route" with no known FA information. Both of those bolts were removed for this route: the lower one was off-route, and the upper was unsafe.
Location
It is on the same wall and to the right of Panda Rigolo.
Follow the Royal Arch trail until 39.986160, -105.290327 where you exit into the woods on the right, just before some large rocks. Follow faint trails down to the gully and then up the other side, heading towards a SW-facing wall at 39.986247, -105.291660. An approach trail track is here https://www.mountainproject.com/approach-trail/123187450.
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