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The MBA Area.

Description 

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This is a section of North Table Mountain right of the Industrial Buttress. As with most sections of North Table Mountain, you can find short sport, trad, and boulder problems. You can also carefully approach some of the anchors by circling around to the tops of the cliff via low-angle breaks in the cliff. This area can be subject to the wind on the breezy days. There are pockets of shade here on the hottest days, but most of the routes are in the sun here.

Getting There 

This area lies approximately in the middle of the climbing areas of North Table Mountain. It faces roughly SW. Park at the designated lot below the East end of the climbing areas below the S face of North Table Mountain. Contour West along the trail past the Tradlands. If you have reached the Industrial Buttress, with the 67 painted on the rock, you've gone too far.

L->R: 

Adrenalyzer, 10 X.

A. Cliffhanger, 8+ or 10, 1p, bolts.
B. Sick Minds Think Alike aka Cliff Notes, 8+, 1p, gear.
C. Spike, 10-, 1p, 50', bolts.
D. Fatal Attraction, 10+ X, 1p.
E. Brain Dead Ted, 8, 1p, gear.
F. How Rebolting aka Butt Crack, 7, 1p, gear.
G1. Feeding Frenzy, 11, 1p, bolts.
G2. Shark Attack! or Shark Infested Waters, 10+, 1p, bolts & gear.
H. Mournful Mullet, 9+, 1p, gear.
I. Major Bolt Achievement, 11-, 1p, 60', bolts.
J. Minor Trad Achievement, 8-, 1p, 60', gear.
K. Mandela aka Leaning Pillar, 8-, 1p, 45', gear.
L. Brain Cloud, 9, 1p, 45', bolts. Arete.
M. Shadow of a Hangdog (aka Fat Fingers), 10, 1p, 45', gear.
N. Broken Arrow, 11, 1p, 50', gear & bolts.
O. Stoney Middleton, 8-, 1p, 50', gear.
P. Table Manners, 11-, 1p, bolts.
Q. Bad Manners, 9, 1p, gear.
R. Dan's Line aka Restless Heart, 11, 1p, bolts.
S. Left Behind, 8, 1p, 70', gear.
T. Good Man Dan, 8 or 10-, 1p, 55', bolts. Arete.
U. Oblivious, 9-, 1p, gear.
V. Hodat, 9-, 1p, bolts.
W. Over The Top aka Unknown bolt line, 10, 1p, bolts.
X. No Manners aka Hodat, 9, 1p, 50', gear.
Y. Nader, 7, 1p, 30', gear.
Z. Wazup? aka Buchanan, 8+, 1p, 30', gear.
AA. Mini Me, 11-, 1p, 30', gear or bolts.
BB. The Milk Dud, 5 or V-easy, 1p, gear.
CC. Twenty Something Arete, 7 or V0-, 1p, 20', gear.

Rattlesnakes 

There have been rattlesnakes seen in this sector.

The Classics

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Mandela aka Leaning Pillar 5.7+  CO : Golden : ... : MBA Buttress

This climb is about 5 feet left of Brain Cloud. Follow a thin crack on the left side of the arête, then move right to the Brain Cloud anchors. Aesthetically, this climb looks great; but the actual climbing is not as exciting as it appears. The crux is about 20 feet up. If you stay in the crack and not wander to the ledges on your left, you will get the most out of the climb....[more]   Browse More Classics in CO

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