Hi,

We decided to beat the heat in Denver and visited Camp Hale this Saturday.  I thought the routes were well bolted and the climbs were fun (only did about 4 routes though). Its a great place to go in the summer.

I did run into something that baffled me enough to post here.  I climbed the 11b at Mule Train, the second route on the wall, and found it to be fairly soft. Then we went to Power Piton and tried Powerline Buzz (11a) and got totally shut down!! I am wondering if I was missing something, or if something broke, or if the guide had an error in it.

Just Curious...

And given that your name is credited with establishing both routes, you'd be a likely person to help a fella out.  You'd certainly be able to give input to #3, no?

The 11b is the second from the left, between the 11c and 11a. I thought going straight up above the third bolt may have been 11- but you could (and my partner did)  easily keep the grade in the 10 range by going slightly right and then going back left to clip the 4th bolt.

On powerline buzz, I thought getting established above the break (the horizontal crack that runs the majority of the crag) was really tough. I tried it on TR after leading it and still couldn't figure out what to do.  Crazy finger lock to a slopy gaston? There was another crux after the 3rd bolt but it was doable with the correct feet.

Page 4, first paragraph.

checking into the problem.

have fun.