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Heat Seeker

Name: Heat Seeker
Rating: 2.7

5.10a YDS 6a French 18 Ewbanks VI+ UIAA 18 ZA E1 5a British

Routes in Mt. Meeker

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	Bands and Brothers T 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
	Dragon's Egg Couloir Ski Descent Steep Snow R
	Flying Buttress, The T 5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b
	Heat Seeker T 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
	Iron Finger, The S 5.12c 7b+ 27 IX- 27 E6 6b
	Iron Gates to Meeker Ridge T 3rd 1- 1 I 1 M 1a
	Main Vein T 5.11b/c 6c+ 23 VIII- 24 E4 6a
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Type:	Trad, Alpine, 560 ft (170 m), 5 pitches
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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

Heat Seeker climbs directly up the North East Buttress of Mt. Meeker. The first few pitches are good fun up mostly continuous cracks systems. The last two are victory romps to the top of the buttress.

P1. 5.9, 140ft
Begin about ten feet right of a left-facing corner on the sheer face of the buttress (where the belayer is in the photo of p1). Climb straight up through the black band to a ledge and up a fantastic corner to another ledge. Either belay here or higher up on a huge flake. The first few feet of this pitch are a bit difficult to protect.

P2. 5.9, 65ft
Climb straight up through some tricky movement on good rock to a mega ledge belay. P1 and 2 could be linked with rope drag.

P3. 5.10a, 115ft
Move the belay about 50 feet across the ledge. Climb the awesome but short finger crack (crux) to a break in the rock, and traverse right past a thin rotten crack to a second with blazen yellow lichen. Fun moves on periodically suspect rock lead to a right-leaning crack on perfect white stone. Belay on a great ledge.

P4. 5.7, 125ft
Climb a full pitch of "swimming pool exits" on amazing white rock. Belay below the obvious offwidth.

P5. 5.8, 115ft
This shares a final pitch with Bands and Brothers. Climb up the unprotected offwidth for 20 feet. Then climb/scramble to the top of the ridge line. The offwidth can easily be avoided by climbing around to the left.