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Where The Wild Things Are 

5.11d

   

FA: Hanson & Sills, 1994
Type: Sport
Consensus: 5.11d [details]
Length: 1 pitch
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Submitted By: Richard M. Wright on Dec 14, 2001


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Starting the traverse left.


Description 

The furthest route on the right as you face The Dungeon ascends a pretty, yellow face, and this is outside of the deep dark channels of the main dungeon. Climbing begins with a short arete that gives rise to good solid face climbing on a dead vertical wall. The route can also be climbed with a left hand variation, Call of the Wild, that is just a tad easier. Both routes are climbed on good edges and, a few thin cobbles, and at least one big bucket. These routes get good afternoon sun, are the best warm-ups for the hard roofs on the left, but both are a bit rough on the hands. Very nice additions overall.


Protection 

Fist full of draws and a rope.



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Aiming for the pocket.

Aiming for the pocket.

No bodies gonna break my stride. Oh no.

No bodies gonna break my stride. Oh no.

The upper thin headwall.

The upper thin headwall.


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By kevin jenkins
From: Parker, Co
Jul 1, 2004
rating: 5.11d

Bring lots of tape to this one, folks. It's a great warm up, but I managed to rip up four tips and came away with some good flappers...so much for the rest of the week.

By Chris Cavallaro
Mar 1, 2008

Great route! Use a long draw on bolts 1 and 2, and then it's very sustained pocket pulling with great protection.

By Dillon Calkin
Apr 4, 2008

This is a question of beta I recently found where the dungeon is after about an hour of mindless, shrub boxing through all the scrub oak but was confused on a particular area just south of the obvious detached boulder. It's about 50 yards ish south of the dungeon where a nice roof spatterd with old birds nests are, there are an assortment of sport routes leading up this part with the first bolts, some of them old cold shuts fairly high off the deck just past the roof. Point being, is this where, Where the Wild Things Are and Wild America etc. is or what? I was kinda confused when I came across this. Any feed back would be awesome.

By Tom Hanson
From: Castle Rock, CO
Apr 4, 2008

Dillon,
Yes, the roof with the old bird nests is Wild Kingdom.
Wild America takes the arete with the black water streak left of Wild Kingdom.

By Dillon Calkin
Apr 4, 2008

Right on, thank you, sir.

By Mike Lane
From: Centennial, CO
Apr 5, 2008

Dillon, leave the thrashing for exploring the bouldering potential. Tom's guidebook is available at the visitor center, or directly from him.