Logan Jauernigg recently completed a new route on the Fault Wall at the Puoux in Glenwood Canyon, creating Midnight Run, 5.13d. The route was an open project bolted by Joe Kinder, and Logan describes it as “really bouldery down low, the crux revolves around a razor sharp three finger edge, but after it rolls over into the headwall the climbing eases up and there is some really fun victory climbing to the top.”
The Fault Wall is an impressively overhanging chunk of limestone, and home to several other hard routes, including Gutless Wonder (14b), Fault Line (13d) and 31 Degrees (14a). There is an unfinished extension to 31 Degrees that has yet to be sent and is likely the hardest pitch on the wall.
Hayden Carpenter and Tom Bohanon recently repeated an obscure ice climb on the south side of Mt Sopris. Given a brief mention in Jack Robert’s ice guide, Bulldog Creek Walk is described as being 100 meters of WI 4. What they found was seven pitches of ice in a remote setting that makes for one […]
Homeboy crushed that thing, are the grades at this crag stiff? That looked hard.
Nah, I’d say they are pretty standard for the area.