The Three Mousketeers 

Overall a fun line. There's an initial hard move past the first bolt followed by sustained climbing to the crux at the second-to-last bolt. I found this last section to be very reachy and I'm 6'2. Also, the last 20 ft. felt a bit contrived to me. Not sure what the FAs had in mind here exactly, but whatever I did, it was fun.

The pin that comprises the first pro is high up. this is probably obvious to most (except me), but to clip it, hand traversing in from the left, along the rail to the left of of the pin is much easier, and far less spooky than trying to go straight up to the pin... a nasty deck fall loomed when going straight at it. Unless I missed something (quite possible.)

This isn't the right place for this comment, but since the submission discusses Bill DeMaillie I might set the record straight here also.

Bill didn't die of "natural causes". He committed suicide after years of battling Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. My recollection is that this was in 1992. Prior to his illness, Bill was an energetic climber who loved doing new routes, cycling, and trail running.

Will Niccolls

The other thing that Bill did that has always impressed me was that he stood up for what he believed in and was not afraid to speak out in public. It was very clear, sometime in the '80s, that new route development in the Flatirons and in the rest of the Boulder City Parks jurisdiction was soon to close down. Bill obviously saw the impact on the tremendous, untapped potential for new, difficult routes. Certainly he was not alone. But when he stood up in front of the city council and told them what would be lost, told them why climbing mattered to Boulder, and told them what was likely to ensue if the park was closed to new route development, it was pretty damn cool. In fact, to this day, the voice I remember most from that time is Bill's.

Good route, real safe. Much easier if there's chalk on it.