Spectator Sport  A2-

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Type:  Trad, Aid, 1 pitch, 140 feet Consensus:  A2- [details] FA:  Trevor Bowman and Kyle Rott 6/22/09 New Route:  Yes Submitted By:  Trevor Bowman on Jun 23, 2009 You & This Route  |  Other Opinions (1) Your todo list: Your stars: Your rating: -none- [change] Your ticklist: [add new tick]

Nearing the top of Spectator Sport.

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Devils Tower National Monument Lifts Current Prairie Falcon Climbing Route Closure MORE INFO >>> 07/01/2012: Because no falcon nesting activity has been observed, the prairie falcon nesting closures currently in effect will be removed on Sunday, July 1, thus opening these areas to normal recreational climbing activities. The areas to be reopened include on the northeast face, routes between and including “Belle Fourche Buttress” and “Maid in the Shaid” (routes #68 to #93), as well as the “North Face” rappel route. Separate from the falcon closure, Devils Tower National Monument has a voluntary climbing closure in effect for the month of June, out of respect for American Indian cultural traditions. For further information on climbing closures, please contact the monument’s Chief of Resource Management, Angela Wetz, at (307) 467-5283 ext 212 or Angela_Wetz@nps.gov. For general climbing information please contact the Devils Tower Climbing Office at 307-467-5283, ext. 632. This information is a public crowdsourcing effort between the Access Fund, and Mountain Project. You should confirm closures, restrictions, and/or related dates. Keeping climbing areas open and conserving the climbing environment

Description 

A fun and casual line up the fracture seam on the face between Buckspeck and Calculus Affair.
Start at the same spot as Buckspeck and easily free climb right past some vegetation into the dihedral just right of its arete. Switch into aid mode and tack up the dihedral on bomber placements for about 25'. Move left out onto the steeper face on a couple thin placements and into the seam proper. This seam goes through many sizes and offers a great stretch of clean aid mixed with a couple pin placements until a pod is reached which takes bomber cams (#1 and #.75 BD). Above the pod it's great birdbeakin' for a ways until more good clean placements take you to the belay for Buckspeck.
The last part of the climb is just around the corner from the upper slabby arete on Buckspeck, and one could feasibly bail out onto that, but the aiding is great all the way to the top! An easy variety pitch with some thin spots, but these are never too far above bomber gear and always lead to better placements soon.

Location 

The clean fracture crack on the face just right of Buckspeck. Start in the dihedral just left of the first pitch of Calculus Affair until moving into the upper fracture seam is feasible.

Protection 

Double set of cams and stoppers through #1 BD, offset brass nuts handy, blue-yellow and yellow-orange offset TCUs, 10 #1 beaks, 5 assorted blades #1-#5, 5 LAs mostly #4 size or so, 1 big hook handy but not necessary.

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Another perspective of the line.	Great cams to finish it up.	Kyle cleaning the pitch.