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Happiness of Pursuit 5.10b

★ 1.1 · 13 Sport PG 40 ft 2 bolts 10 min approach

PG: A little more to think about than the grade alone suggests: gear that's slightly tricky to place, or spaced a bit further apart than usual. What do these mean?

FA: unknown

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Position along the wall as the guidebook lists it.

How did 5.10b feel?

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Against the posted grade, which stays as its source states it. One answer per device; a later one replaces it.

Sun today
sun 12:30-16:00
Wall faces W (Guidebook). Shade from the surrounding terrain is counted.
Deep terrain: the skyline averages 30° above horizontal, so the sun has to climb well clear of the rim before it reaches this wall.
Rain & forecast
0 mm of rain in the last 48 hours.
11-11 57°/41° · 0.0 mm · 17 mph · pm storms 0% 11-12 56°/42° · 0.0 mm · 11 mph · pm storms 0% 11-13 56°/42° · 0.0 mm · 9 mph · pm storms 0%
Open-Meteo, fetched 2026-11-11 18:40 UTC

Conditions reported

Nothing reported recently.

Report what you see

Reports are dated and fade on their own: wet rock after 3 days, a bad bolt after a year. No names, no text.

Access & safety

Emergency: call 911. Read out your location: Works without signal. If GPS fails, this crag's approximate map point is 39.74561 N, 105.24985 W (Happiness of Pursuit, The Sports Wall). That point can be off by hundreds of metres, so say so.

Access details for this crag haven't been checked yet.

Sources

GuidebookOpenBeta

In the guidebook: Rock Climbing Clear Creek Canyon - Kevin Capps - 3rd ed., p. 37. Buy the book for the description and topo.

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