Tallest sport climb in CO

Just curious, what is the tallest bolted climb in CO?

Royal Flush ??

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Royal flush looks sweet, but isn't all sport.
The Brown Palace is 6 pitches of pure sport. Super fun, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were something taller.

Jake Carroll wrote:Royal flush looks sweet, but isn't all sport. The Brown Palace is 6 pitches of pure sport. Super fun, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were something taller.

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Brown Palace is one with six pitches. Then there is The Broadmoor
right next to it. In the Splatte there is Fractured Fairytales

Young and the Rackless
is only 4 pitches, as is
Too! and most of the routes at
Ra in Empire.

Monitor Rock, Leadville side of Indy Pass. I recall doing a few 4-6p sport routes there, though most of the good stuff is 2-4 pitches, if ya wanna get your glacier polish on...

Childhood's End

Jake Carroll wrote:Royal flush looks sweet, but isn't all sport. The Brown Palace is 6 pitches of pure sport. Super fun, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were something taller.

I would say that Royal Flush is all sport, but the description of "pitches" is wrong. All of the actual climbing is well bolted, but then there are pitches that involve walking across third and fourth class terrain. Based on the description I bought 4 cams with me just in case, but I don't think they are at all necessary unless you are uncomfortable with easy scrambling. (I think I ran 3 or more climbing "pitches" together in one and did the whole thing in about 4 actual pitches of climbing, along with some unroped scrambling.)

It is much taller than Brown Palace, but Brown Palace is a much more fun climb in my opinion.

Solid Gold and Fools Gold in Clear Creek Canyon are both 5 pitches of Sport.

I might disagree with Childhoods End being a "sport climb" haha. But technically that would be the longest consistent "sport" climb.

if you only brought quickdraws, it might be a wee bit uncomfortable... some of the routes on the N face of sheep rock (land that time forgot) might qualify, especially considering that the pitches are generally fairly long.

You just have to do the less classic left start for a fully bolted variation. It's described in Trout's book. Otherwise a couple nuts and a #4 camalot and you are good to go. If you can climb 5.12 and run-out .10+ the easy cracks and slabs should be cruiser.

climbing.com/news/hotflashe…

9-pitch sport route in the Royal Gorge. "Clean Dan Memorial Route".

Here's a link w/ pic from '07 when it was 11b.

climbing.com/news/hotflashe…

The route creator is both well known and a major contributor here . . . maybe he could say some more about the line . . .

John Maurer wrote:http://www.climbing.com/news/hotflashes/gofastgames04/ 9-pitch sport route in the Royal Gorge. "Clean Dan Memorial Route".

Too bad it is only open for business during the gofast games, could have been a good paddle/climb combo.