Nice route. If you wanna place gear in the canyon, this is one to consider. It starts up a big left-facing dihedral, goes over a bulge, then later a roof. Plenty of placement options. As the climbing gets easier (although the rock is a bit sketchier), head left up under the huge overhang. There's an anchor there that you can rap off (or continue on with the short second pitch named "Upper Cut"--recommended.) The Colorado Front Range book lists this as over a 100ft rappel, but it's not. The length of the climb is more like 80 ft total. Great belay ledge, nice views of the canyon and kayakers in the spring.
Protection
Medium rack. I only used wires and cams, though hexes would have taken well...
I thought this is a quality route. Hexes do work really well on this climb. I thought it was closer to 100', though we didn't bring a measuring tape and we stopped at the chains which adds a little. There wasn't more than ~30' of the 70m rope on the ground for the rap.
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