This is a great wilderness rock climb on clean granite. It doesn't get much better in the Weminuche! (or anywhere in the San Juans for that matter).  It has a free climbing crux down low, some tricky aid up high, and lots of memorable moments in between. It should go free.

Start in "fern gully" just uphill of

Contraceptive Cracks

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Arkansas Route

Chalice Wall

Brain Damage

Lulu The Magical Mule

Central Buttress

Contraceptive Cracks

Thunder Road

This is 35m pitch that ascends the pillar on the apron. The crux is low, but the climbing is very sustained at 5.9. This has awesome smearing and slapping the arête on the right side of the pillar where brain damage starts.

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Protection

Routes in The Pope's Nose