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Tava 

5.10b

   

FA: Stewart Green and Brian Shelton, 2004.
Type: Sport
Consensus: 5.10a/b [details]
Length: 1 pitch, 75 feet
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Submitted By: Jon Cannon on Oct 16, 2006


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Almost there! Jon Cannon on the last clip of Tava...


Description 

Smear past two bolts to the crux, a somewhat blank headwall. Sandy smearing up to a glorious hole, which gets you up to a nice ledge. From the ledge, clip a couple of bolts before the next difficult section: gaining the layback. Small and sandy holds up to the layback. Cool laybacking/face climbing for about 20 feet to the third challenge, moving past the laybacks onto the upper headwall.


Location 

Far left end of Solar Slab.


Protection 

6 clips to a 2-bolt anchor.



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By Stewart M. Green
Oct 17, 2006

FA by Stewart Green and Brian Shelton, 2004.

This was the first route on Solar Slab. Named Tava, the Ute Indian word for "sun" and often given to Pikes Peak.

Watch for wasps in that good hole!

By Phil Lauffen
From: Boulder
Jun 27, 2008

This was a really fun climb.... Well worth it. The layback doesn't do you any good after a third of the way up so you have to do face climbing with occasional footholds on the corner. Fun mantle to get on top, too.