Annie's Knotty Fingers is a 5.11- YDS trad, 80 ft (24 m) located in Estes Park Valley > Big Thompson Ca > Palisade Mountain > Mikey's Island. First ascent by M Carnes, Anna Thomas. This is the right hand finger crack that climbs directly up, cuts right, then back left at the top into the thin hands crack just below the anchor. Protection: The right hand line of the three but the center most line off of "The Beach" belay.
Borachone is a 5.6 YDS sport, 55 ft (17 m) located in Estes Park Valley > Big Thompson Ca > Palisade Mountain > Nancy's Rock. First ascent by Allen Simons. 5.5 miles west of the Beige Siphon Tube is a paved pullout on the north side of the road. Hike 30 yards up hill to the rock (Nancy's Rock). Start at the bottom of a large black section of rock, and climb up easy rock to the bulge and first bolt. Go up and left is 5.9, up and right is 5.6. Smear past two more bolts to the top. Protection: 3 bolts to a two bolt anchor with Mussy hooks.
Chance is a 5.7 YDS trad, sport, tr, 55 ft (17 m) located in Estes Park Valley > Big Thompson Ca > Palisade Mountain > Nancy's Rock. First ascent by Jim Disney?. In the center of the face, a crack develops 20 feet up. Climb to the crack and up till it runs out. Smear past one bolt to the anchors. Protection: Small nuts and cams with one bolt. Two bolt anchor with hooks.
Channel Surfing is a 5.10a YDS sport, 60 ft (18 m) located in Estes Park Valley > Big Thompson Ca > Palisade Mountain > Skull Rock Area > Subskull. First ascent by D. Humphrey, K. Duncan. Channel Surfing has fun climbing up the water channel and face to anchors shared with Numbskulls. Scramble up easy rock to a short, right-angling crack (#0.5 Camalot). Lieback up the left-angling water channel until you can easily step up into it. Move up the groove, step right onto the face, and head up to the anchors. Protection: This is the rightmost of the bolted routes on the south-facing slab at the west end of Subskull. See the photo.
Dé - Stud Pony is a 5.7+ YDS trad, 100 ft (30 m) located in Estes Park Valley > Big Thompson Ca > Palisade Mountain > Horseshead. First ascent by Matt Coffman, M Carnes. Climb the crack of Glue Factory, and when that climb leans to the right, step left into the straight up, easy to protect hand crack. It is hard to say that this is the first ascent. Protection: Climbed in the fall of 2009, this is the low angle hoof of the horse head buttress with Glue Factory. There are now bolted anchors at the top of this climb as an effort to clean up the buttress.
De Gueo is a 5.10 YDS sport, 55 ft (17 m) located in Estes Park Valley > Big Thompson Ca > Palisade Mountain > Nancy's Rock. First ascent by Allen Simons. Drive 5.5 miles west of the Beige Siphon Tube to a paved pullout on the north side of the road. Hike 30 yards uphill to the slab. This is De Gueo, 5.10-. Cling, edge, and smear up the left blunt arete to the upper face. Edge past two nickle thick smears, and reach long for the good hold. Protection: 4 bolts to a two bolt anchor with a link and a biner-like snaplink.
Glue Factory is a 5.8 YDS trad, 100 ft (30 m) located in Estes Park Valley > Big Thompson Ca > Palisade Mountain > Horseshead. First ascent by description by Pale Dale & Howie. Perhaps 150 feet down/west of Neighsayer is a clean but low 5th class v-slot. A few feet left is a series of blocks and flakes leading to a nice, left to right curving ____ ending at a fir, 100 feet. It is way presumptuous to say a first - i.e., slings and locking biner on the fir. Protection: Standard rack.
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