Purgatorius  5.8

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Type:  Sport, 1 pitch, 60 feet Consensus:  5.8+ [details] FA:  Claude Traufield Submitted By:  Leo Paik on Aug 14, 2010 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (6) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

Tom Sprague moving up gingerly.

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Description 

This is another sport climb on near vertical, gritty, featured rock that will need some traffic to clean up.

Ascend easy terrain past 3 bolts starting on a micro-flatiron. Then there is a longish reach around the 4th bolt. Dance right (cruxish), up, then left. Note, the 6th bolt leaves you top biner dangling partway over an edge, so I don't recommend falling on the 6th bolt. Perhaps a rounded hanger would allow threading a sling? The terrain eases up and you gain the two bolt anchor.

This route currently leaves one a bit cautious pulling on flakes and trusting edges. Adventure sport climbing.

Note, Claude indicated he felt the route clocks in at 8+. Per Claude "it was named after a small extinct creature that managed to survive for a time during and after the era of the thunder lizards. There's even a picture of what it was thought to look like on Wikipedia." Thanks, Claude!

Location 

This is left of Byrontosaurus perhaps 100 feet, past a flake-filled groove, near a moderate-sized tree.

Protection 

7 bolts, 2 bolt anchor.