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Between You and Me 
Dihedral - 5.8 
Gotta Love the View 
Poncho's Power 
Retro Petro 
Spanker Work Itanker 
UK 5.8+ gear route 

Poncho's Vista 


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Submitted By: Robby Cribbs on May 24, 2007

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BETA PHOTO: 5.8 Dihedral on the NW face. Gear fingers to hand...

Description 

This is a crag with 5 sport routes and a couple gear routes.


Getting There 

It is in between the two sets of tunnels, up the hill.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Poncho's Vista:
Dihedral - 5.8   5.8     Trad, 1 pitch   
Spanker Work Itanker   5.9     Sport, 1 pitch   
Between You and Me   5.9+     Sport, 1 pitch   
Poncho's Power   5.10d     Sport, 1 pitch, 60 feet   
Retro Petro   5.11a     Sport, 1 pitch   
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Featured Route For Poncho's Vista
Robby Cribbs just past the crux

Between You and Me 5.9+  CO : Buena Vista : Poncho's Vista
Cruxy problem, choose to either stem out far or squeeze the sharp arete. Feels much harder at first than 5.9....[more]   Browse More Classics in CO


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Routes on the NW face. <br />1. 5.8 Dihedral. Gear fingers/hands to a bolted anchor ~ 50'. <br />2.Poncho's Power, 5.10d crystal crimping w/high crux. 5 bolts+anchors. <br />3. Retro Petro, 5.11a w/mucho thin crimps. 4 bolts+anchors.

BETA PHOTO: Routes on the NW face.
1. 5.8 Dihedral. Gear finge...

1. Gotta Love the view. 5.9, 5 bolts+anchors. <br />2. Spanker work tanker. 5.9+, 4 bolts+anchors. Crux is tween 1st/2nd bolt. <br />3. UK 5.8+ gear route. Shares anchors w/Spanker.. <br />4. Between you and me. 5.9+, kinda funky, you need to stem to keep it at 5.9. Fun if you do, if not, not so much!

BETA PHOTO: 1. Gotta Love the view. 5.9, 5 bolts+anchors.
2. S...

Dober after a nice lead.

Dober after a nice lead.

Dober's first 5.9 lead! Hit all three of these cracks. Very fun.

Dober's first 5.9 lead! Hit all three of these cr...


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By Chip Loomis
Jun 6, 2012

I am concerned about what I found at these routes over Memorial Day weekend, 2012. Two routes were missing there their lower hangers; Between You and Me and Gotta Love the View. Interestingly, the bolts were still there, but the bottom hangers were missing.

By Lee Jenkins
From: Buena Vista, Colorado
Jun 8, 2012

Seems to be a recurring issue with people stealing hangers in the Valley. Whoever is doing this is gonna receive some serious bad Karma!

By Lee Jenkins
From: Buena Vista, Colorado
Sep 30, 2012

Hangers are missing from Gotta Love the view (first 2 bolts) and JS new 5.11 to the right of Dihedral (1st bolt). WTF!?