Soloing ended at the scary looking cicle. Fractured all the way through, it still held my fat ass. As usual, Jack hiked it.

All Locations > Colorado > CO Ice & Mixed > Ouray (Ice/Mixed) > Camp Bird Rd > Bird Brain Boulevard (WI5 M5)

Soloing ended at the scary looking cicle. Fractured all the way through, it still held my fat ass. As usual, Jack hiked it.

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BBB is the cleft to the right of the Ribbon. Tough to see what's in the upper pitches until you get there.

Start of pitch 1 with entire route in the perspective.

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Alan Searcy

Jan 5, 2005

“Soloing ended at the scary looking cicle. Fractured all the way through, it still held my fat ass. As usual, Jack hiked it.”

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Pat McCarthy coming up pitch 2.

Chimneying/ice climbing in the beginning of pitch 5.

Two unknown climbers on Birdbrain, 2-7-07.

BBB, ice on the start of the 4th pitch.

Pat emerging from the run out chimney at the end of pitch 6.

Dusk over Ouray from the top of the climb.

BBB as of Feb 04 2007. We marked the belays and gear used for anchors. The belay on pitch 3 was more convenient above the two pins mentioned in the description.

5.8 section on the last pitch.

Kurt Ross leading P4 with sparse ice. December 2011.

BBB is the cleft to the right of the Ribbon. Tough to see what's in the upper pitches until you get there.

Soloing ended at the scary looking cicle. Fractured all the way through, it still held my fat ass. As usual, Jack hiked it.

Start of pitch 1 with entire route in the perspective.

Kacper Tekieli on upper part of Birdbrain Boulevard (March 2015).

Looking down one move away from the top of BBB. Classic!

BBB, Carl Pluim on the Cave pitch, as you can see, plenty of ice up high!

BBB, Carl Pluim on the 5th pitch ice.

The pitch 6 belay anchor - bomber!

Looking down pitch 2.

Great ice on P6, Jan. 30th, 2016.

The belay in the squeeze after pitch 6.

Not much ice as of Dec. 11, '22 - mostly snow in chimneys. Be prepared to climb way above marginal gear for 80% of the route. Maybe more ice will form? We started at 5:40 on P1 and got done at 6:00. We rapped trees skier's right of the climb.

Bird Brain Boulevard.

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