Vertical-Life
The Fortress of Solitude
184
ASCENTS
9 %
OS RATE
46
ROUTES IN DB
184
ASCENTS
9 %
OS RATE
46
ROUTES IN DB
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| Orange Mechanique (7c+) | Nice technical one on good rock! Matt Samet Fa I believe. |
20 Apr 2024
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| Nice technical one on good rock! Matt Samet Fa I believe. | ||||||
| The Full Macleod (7b) | Extension of Hamburglar for another 7 bolts through awesome pockets and stemming on blue stone. Really good climbing on this one! |
13 Apr 2024
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| Extension of Hamburglar for another 7 bolts through awesome pockets and stemming on blue stone. Really good climbing on this one! | ||||||
| The Hamburglar (7a+) | FA. Left of boy wonder. Starts on the left side of cave/crack. A fun little thing that balances out the grade range a little at the cliff. Bolted and sent in a day. Should have an extension soon enough! |
7 Apr 2024
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| FA. Left of boy wonder. Starts on the left side of cave/crack. A fun little thing that balances out the grade range a little at the cliff. Bolted and sent in a day. Should have an extension soon enough! | ||||||
| The Upside Down (8a+) | Wild one! This one forces you the bring the full gamete(ut) of climbing skills. Although I thought this would be more wideboyz skills, it’s just shuffling knees up. All in all, a very unique climb and much more pumpy than expected. |
31 Mar 2024
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| Wild one! This one forces you the bring the full gamete(ut) of climbing skills. Although I thought this would be more wideboyz skills, it’s just shuffling knees up. All in all, a very unique climb and much more pumpy than expected. | ||||||
| Glamorama (7b+) |
16 Mar 2024
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| The Daily Planet (8b) |
11 Mar 2024
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| Metropolis (7c) | Almost got to the rest ledge on the OS hanging draws for the warmup. Forearms were totally bricked and fell off some good holds. |
25 Feb 2024
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| Almost got to the rest ledge on the OS hanging draws for the warmup. Forearms were totally bricked and fell off some good holds. | ||||||
| Repulsion (7b+) |
22 Feb 2024
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| Glamorama (7b+) | Matty with the mega spray down |
22 Feb 2024
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| Matty with the mega spray down | ||||||
| Captain Confusion (8a) |
20 Feb 2024
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| Penultimate Man (7c+) | Formerly known as “Kalous-Logan”. Fun pumper with what I thought was a wide boyz crack machine but turns out it’s only one hand jam really. First time wearing a hand Jammie! Wooo! I think I liked this more than captain confusion in the end. |
13 Feb 2024
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| Formerly known as “Kalous-Logan”. Fun pumper with what I thought was a wide boyz crack machine but turns out it’s only one hand jam really. First time wearing a hand Jammie! Wooo! I think I liked this more than captain confusion in the end. | ||||||
| The Pummeling (7c+) | I really really liked this one. Really good stone. Underrated. I frankly do not understand the below comments at all. I will agree that a couple bolts should probably be added cause it’s spicey-con-carne! Especially the 4ish bolt to the next. Probably 14a spice factor on 13a climbing. |
11 Feb 2024
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| I really really liked this one. Really good stone. Underrated. I frankly do not understand the below comments at all. I will agree that a couple bolts should probably be added cause it’s spicey-con-carne! Especially the 4ish bolt to the next. Probably 14a spice factor on 13a climbing. | ||||||
| Phone Booth (7c+) | Really good. Techy at the bottom, pumpy at the top. |
11 Feb 2024
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| Really good. Techy at the bottom, pumpy at the top. | ||||||
| The Great Beyond (8a+) | Very mega. It took some burns getting all the draws and extensions set up. I ended up using a two rope method and had very little rope drag with that. Full 100m rope used. One of the craziest routes around. |
4 Feb 2024
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| Very mega. It took some burns getting all the draws and extensions set up. I ended up using a two rope method and had very little rope drag with that. Full 100m rope used. One of the craziest routes around. | ||||||
| The Misanthrope (8a) | Crossley yet fun! And now it has a proper anchor too. |
30 Jan 2024
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| Crossley yet fun! And now it has a proper anchor too. | ||||||
| Blind Date (7c+) | Silty adventure. 5 star beta from barlow with a hard unintuitive rightward traverse at the crux. Not the type of moves you onsight. Fun one! Would be a lot better with more traffic. |
30 Jan 2024
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| Silty adventure. 5 star beta from barlow with a hard unintuitive rightward traverse at the crux. Not the type of moves you onsight. Fun one! Would be a lot better with more traffic. | ||||||
| Repulsion (7b+) | This thing is mega! Really fun! |
2 Jan 2024
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| This thing is mega! Really fun! | ||||||
| Tight Blue Suit (8a+) | Really fun boulder off the phone booth. I can definitely see why the anchors stayed where they are on phone booth cause the boulder is rather fierce! Fun no knee adventure. I think 13c seemed fair and I think since the addition of “the cape”, finishing on its anchor makes more sense and makes for a more complete route. Fun 11+ climbing off of the original TBS anchor for a little extra pump. Beautiful warm day at the fortress! Jan 2??? |
2 Jan 2024
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| Really fun boulder off the phone booth. I can definitely see why the anchors stayed where they are on phone booth cause the boulder is rather fierce! Fun no knee adventure. I think 13c seemed fair and I think since the addition of “the cape”, finishing on its anchor makes more sense and makes for a more complete route. Fun 11+ climbing off of the original TBS anchor for a little extra pump. Beautiful warm day at the fortress! Jan 2??? | ||||||
| The Cape (8b) | Good rock climb, not sure about grade. Maybe it's not so hard and I'm out of shape? Basically a really good 12d with an ok V7 board problem dropped in the middle. |
21 Dec 2023
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| Good rock climb, not sure about grade. Maybe it's not so hard and I'm out of shape? Basically a really good 12d with an ok V7 board problem dropped in the middle. | ||||||
| Phone Booth (7c+) |
20 Dec 2023
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