Heaven Can Wait 5.9
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The following areas are closed from March 1-July 31 or until further notice:
Twin Owls, Rock One, Batman Rock, Batman Pinnacle, Sheep Mountain, Thunder Buttress, The Parish, Lightning Rock and Checkerboard Rock are currently closed. The closures include the named rock formations and the areas extending 100 yards surrounding the base of the formation. This includes all climbing routes, outcroppings, cliffs, faces, ascent and descent routes and climber's access trails to the formation.
Alligator Rock is also closed.
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Description Locate a tree below the left end of the large overhang. This route ascends the large, left-facing dihedral ending at the ledge with that tree. This seems to be the best warm-up pitch in the area, unless you start on the Fin City formation behind the Crescent Wall. Well protected and fairly clean, this route jams and smears the corner 80' to the ledge.
Protection Standard rack.
The crack is gnarly, unpleasant and hard, so it wa...
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Moving over the roof on friable hand holds. The ge...
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The first crux is pulling on to your right foot in...
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Moving past the first bolt to the second and last ...
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Gear at the end of the hard climbing. It looks lik...
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Tom Jensen leading up Heaven Can Wait.
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| Comments on Heaven Can Wait |
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By Guy H.
From: Fort Collins CO
May 3, 2007
| I didn't find this route to be "clean". The left face that you smear was quite flaky. It is an okay warm-up for the area, since it is the easiest pitch under 5.11 that is not "X" rated. |
By Ivan Rezucha
From: Boulder, CO
Nov 30, 2007
| Greg Miller and I did this climb to the top. Gillett says P1 and P2 FA are unknown. P3 10b past the roof was added in 1984 by Mike Caldwell and Barlow.
P1 is gnarly, unpleasant and felt pretty hard. P2 is easy but runout. Save a #2 Camalot for the middle of P2 and another #2 and/or #1 for the belay below the roof. I had neither and belayed from 2 sideways nuts in the roof. We belayed at the top of the P2 flakes rather than at the left end of the subsequent traverse ledge, so that a leader fall reaching the first bolt on P3 would not be directly onto the belay. The disadvantage to belaying where we did was that once clipped into the first bold the rope would slide to the right across the lip of the roof if the leader fell above that.
P3 is pretty friable, and is spicy getting to the first bolt with the gear below the roof. The moves to the first bolt are about 10a. Once you're clipped it's still spicy, because the bolts are quarter inchers (but the hangar looked good!), presumably from 1984. The moves past the first bolt are the 10b crux and get a touch easier as you get to the second bolt. Some easier moves, maybe 5.8 or 9, lead to a horizontal and trad gear. Greg ran it out for the full 200' far right to a walkoff ledge. Descend right via an easy flake (we belayed), more hiking, and then a squeeze down a chimney (can belay the first person). |
By Kevin Gillest
From: Arvada, CO
Jul 30, 2012
rating: 5.9
| We climbed through the 5.5 section to the roof, single nut/sling/carabiner rappel back to the ground with a single 70m rope. |
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