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Killer Queen

5.9, Sport, 60 ft (18 m),  Avg: 2.4 from 59 votes
FA: MJM & RAMM, 6/2013
Colorado > Canon City > Shelf Rd > Gallery > Mural Wall

Description

Climb great, righty sidepulls for 2 clips to a strenuous reach to clip C3. At C3, traverse directly left with great hand holds and edges for the feet to clip the high C4. At C4, move right to the vertical corner on edges, pockets, and fun climbing to C6. At C7, move up or right to the gray face past C8 to the chained anchors.

Location

Killer Queen is just right of Protect the King.

Protection

7 clips to Mussy hooks provided by https://www.safeclimbing.org.

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Clippin' since been.
[Hide Photo] Clippin' since been.
Killer Queen stemming.
[Hide Photo] Killer Queen stemming.

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Hiro Protagonist
Colorado
  5.9
[Hide Comment] On-sighted this yesterday after staring at it while doing Protect the King next door. It looked interesting from the ground and not that difficult - it's not listed in the current (2010) D'Antonio Shelf guidebook. I wrote it in my book as route 113.5 on p.55.

Anyways, route requires various techniques which I thought was fun - some crack technique, stemming, and sidepulls. Plenty of bolts to protect it I thought. I'm a 10c/d sport climber and a 5.8-5.9 trad climber. I thought this was a 5.8 or 5.9 difficulty - I'll give it 5.9 since the original rating here seems to be 10a. Seeing as you're probably standing there to do the King, you might as well do this. May 24, 2015