Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Rainbow Wall - Original Route (.12a/b) Free Solo

Joe of Team Tuesday and I have talked about doing this route for a little while now. The description of the route is fantastic:

"The Original Route on the Rainbow Wall is perhaps Red Rocks’ finest route. It is certainly a crown jewel in terms of achievement: Once you’ve climbed it, things like Levitation 29 and Cloud Tower seem like cragging routes."

14 pitches, 1000 feet. A lifetime goal for some. Or just one of 3 climbs you do (taking about an hour to do all 1000 feet) in a day of free-soloing if you're this guy Honnold. After climbing this, he goes and climbs Prince of Darkness (.10c) and downclimbs Dream of Wild Turkeys (.10a). Comments online justifiably wonder at this kid's ability to solo something so heinous. *sigh* :)

I'm sure you guys have read about this already, but here's a nice write-up from Climbing.com.

2 comments:

Sof the Froggy said...

a 12 b trad.... no matter how beautiful, and great and it seems so, I 'll let you animals scale it! :)

His Tallness said...

And now he's teaming up to try to break Hans and Yuji's speed ascent record of the Nose. I guess he'll have to use a rope for that one...