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5.11b

   

FA: Kirk Miller
New Route: Yes
Type: Sport
Consensus: 5.11a/b [details]
Length: 1 pitch, 90 feet
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Submitted By: Kirk Miller on Mar 13, 2004


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Pulling left around the arête is the first hard mo...


Description 

Left of the existing routes at the Dog House, Li'l Dog climbs a pocketed slab to an overhanging prow.


Protection 

12-13 bolts to Fixe rings.



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You start on the right, pull around left, and then work both sides of the arête.<br />Photo by Ken Parker.

You start on the right, pull around left, and then...

All of the holds are positive and most are big, but I was still getting tired and a little worried at this point.<br />Photo by Ken Parker.

All of the holds are positive and most are big, bu...


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By WiledHorse
From: NoGo
Dec 12, 2005
rating: 5.11b

Very fun route on surprisingly great quality stone. Most is easy 5.7 climbing to a fun overhanging arete crux sequence. Good warm up for the warm-ups....

By Ivan Rezucha
Nov 23, 2008
rating: 5.10d

Fun but pretty easy. This was my first climb of the day, and I was real solid. I had more trouble with Snoopy 9+ just to the left. That may say more about my strengths and weaknesses as a climber than about the relative grades.

By Kirk Miller
From: Golden, CO
Nov 25, 2008

Of course there are always the variations...start on Li'l Dog, end on Snoopy and you've done Li'l Snoopy. Then there's Snoop Dog....

By Top Rope Hero
From: Denver/Aspen
Aug 30, 2009
rating: 5.11a

Exciting; much steeper crux than the pics here suggest. A bit over-bolted. And felt spicy for an 11a (my grade, not Kirk Miller's), but the action is short lived and overall, this route was at least a letter grade easier than Hot Dog (11b in the Mabe guidebook), a few lines to the right.

SPOILER BETA: Keep slappin' that left hand up and left and higher than those desperate chalk marks suggest, that big boy ladder rung is up there, somewhere. S'all over at that point....