Cold Turkey 5.9+
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| Type: | Trad, 1 pitch, 140 feet |
| Consensus: | 5.9+ [details] |
| FA: | Jim Erickson and Jim Hofman, 1969 |
| Submitted By: | S. Kimball on Jan 7, 2003 |
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Above the crux at the secondary crux. Photo by Chu...
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Description Much better than fowl lunchmeat and stiff for the grade. Scramble right from Positively 4th St. and belay from an evergreen. Up friable 5.8 chimney (RP and slung spike protection) onto a great jug then ledge. Lieback a sharp, pebbly, right-facing corner seen 20 feet. left of Air Mail. Turn into a crystalline, thin crack with nice locks and hand jams, and some steepness. Finish up easy but loose corners to large tree with rap rings. Rappel 140 feet or rope off toward the Rincon. Nowadays, this would be F10 on the Sinks Bar jukebox.
Protection Standard Eldo with midsize RP and #3.5 and #4 Friend.
Slinging the loose horn. There are small wires bel...
| Exiting the chimney. After only a couple of chimne...
| Just below the crux. The handcrack ends, and the c...
| BETA PHOTO: Looking up Cold Turkey. The wide junky stuff at th...
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By Gregger Man Aug 15, 2004
| Very loose, sharp stuff. Double-check your hand and footholds or you may send down some large missiles. [2004] Climbed it again Jan 2013. Not as bad as I had first thought. |
By kyle lefkoff Sep 30, 2004 rating: 5.9+
| I agree with Kimball: This is a nice climb, with the usual loose section (down low in this case). Crusher and I split it into two short pitches from the base, since there's a good ledge half way. In this style, the P1 chimney (5.8) protects with a 3.5 Friend. The P2 crack (5.9+) is solid and well protected at the crux with a fixed pin and gear. |
By Mike Munger From: Boulder, Colorado May 12, 2007
| Good quality climbing in the crux corner. The rap rings weren't there May 2007 but it's easy to walk off left from the next ledge up. |
By Jay Eggleston From: Littleton Nov 10, 2009
| Don't sling the horn mentioned in the description! It is ready to come off. A #3 Camalot in a pod above and left of the horn seems adequate. |
By Clint Locks From: Boulder Mar 7, 2010 rating: 5.9+ R
| Jay's got a good point, but I say sling it anyway, and back it up with his suggestion. Who knows--it just might hold. There are ways to avoid putting all your weight on the horn in question while moving through that section. |
By 303scott Jan 28, 2013 rating: 5.9+
| This should be on anyone's tour de obscure in Eldo. If you've climbed enough in Eldo to be searching for obscure routes, nothing on this one will cause you concern and there is some really nice crack climbing above the chimney. Also, it looks like someone is putting up anchors for a new route that will also service this one, which will make the last 50 feet of 5.3 scrambling on loose rock unnecessary. |
By Guy H. From: Fort Collins CO Mar 17, 2013
| The horn in the chimney is gone. There is a nice foot in its place. |
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