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Leaning Tower

Name: Leaning Tower
Rating: 2.7

5.9 YDS 5c French 17 Ewbanks VI UIAA 17 ZA HVS 5a British

Routes in Ship's Prow

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	Barnacle Scars T 5.13 8a 29 X- 30 E7 6c
	Bilge Pump T 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	Bologna Pony T,S 5.12+ 7c 28 IX 27 E6 6b
	Etch-A-Sketch T 5.13- 7c+ 29 IX+ 29 E7 6c
	Feel the Stern T 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b
	Half Day's Work T 5.9- 5c 17 VI 16 HVS 4c
	Ice Cream Turned to Shit T 5.10+ 6b+ 21 VII+ 20 E3 5b
	Keel Haul T 5.13 8a 29 X- 30 E7 6c
	Leaning Tower T 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
	Man Overboard T 5.10d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b R
	Mentals With Altitude T 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
	Mizzenmast T 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b
	Portal T 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a PG13
	Raise the Main! T 5.13+ 8b 30 X- 31 E7 7a PG13
	Remember the Pikas T 5.9- 5c 17 VI 16 HVS 4c
	Sarchasm S 5.14- 8b+ 32 X+ 32 E8 7a
	Scots on the Rocks T 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
	Ship Of Fools T,S 5.11 6c+ 23 VIII- 23 E4 5c PG13
	Shiver Me Timbers aka (Scissor Me Timbers) T 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b
	Slocum's Spray T 5.14- 8b+ 32 X+ 32 E8 7a PG13
	South Dihedral T 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a PG13
	Tunnel of Love T 5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b
	Waves of Shade T 5.11c/d 7a 24 VIII 25 E4 6a
	Yard Arms T 5.13- 7c+ 29 IX+ 29 E7 6c

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Type:	Trad, Alpine, 3 pitches
FA:	Ronca and Noble, 1998
Page Views:	2,161 total · 28/month
Shared By:	George Bracksieck on Aug 23, 2018
Admins:	Leo Paik, John McNamee, Frances Fierst, Monty, Monomaniac, Tyler KC Page Updates (admin only)

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Access Issue: Closures Details

Seasonal closures Feb. 15-July 31. Per the Denver Post:, the Cathedral Wall and all areas above the Loch Vale-Sky Pond Trail are closed to off-trail travel! Per this RMNP website, "Initial closures now occur in Feb. 15 and April, when raptors return to the region and scout for nesting sites. Areas containing general habitat preferred by raptors are closed during this time. Once raptors have selected nesting spots, the initial closures are lifted or adjusted. The specific areas which raptors choose for nesting sites are closed."

For additional information about raptor closures, please visit the Rocky Mountain National Parks area closures website.

General NPS climbing regulations for RMNP posted here.

Description

I noticed this enticing right-facing dihedral system while climbing the Flying Buttress in 1977. In 1988, I talked my girlfriend, Carol Smith, into climbing it.

We did the long approach to base of the dihedrals. I led each dihedral as one pitch. Each seemed 5.9. At the top of the second, Carol wanted to go down. She was in the midst of a series of chemo treatments for metastatic breast cancer, and she said that the altitude was bothering her. The next (last) pitch looked much easier, but we left it for the future, did a quick rap with two ropes to the base of the climb, and walked out.

I had intended to go back and finish the route. I see, however, in the latest guidebook, Ronca and Noble completed the route in 1998. Because no one has posted this route, I'm doing so in Carol's memory.