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This was the last of the super-classic moderate routes at Red Rocks that I hadn't yet climbed, so it's been on my list for a while. Danielle and I got up at 5:15, and although we were the very first car at the entrance gate to the loop road, someone pulled ahead of us while we were waiting, and as luck would have it, they happened to be climbing the same route. They beat us to the base by a few minutes, but altogether they didn't slow us down much. The climbing on this route was mostly fun and easy, and I ran it out quite a bit on every pitch. The tunnel was especially fun. We reached the top just a little after noon, and were back to the car before 3:30. I could have been up for another short climb, but I could tell Danielle was tired, and we wanted to go back to camp and see if we could find a “legal” campsite, so we decided to call it a day.