Really nice, fairly long climb. The lower pitches are just okay, but the
excellent upper pitches are well worth it. I got to lead the crux, which is
definitely not 5.10a as the SuperTopo claims, and even calling it 5.9 is soft
compared to other places that I've climbed. I've gotten pretty used to that
with Red Rocks. We didn't do any major pitch-linking, except for the five
pitches of mostly 3rd and 4th class climbing in the middle, which we
simul-climbed (I led). The rope drag during this simul-climb was kinda nasty,
and I had to be careful to keep the rope from running through cacti. Worse
yet, at one point the rope apparently dislodged a fairly large rock right
above Aaron, and it narrowly missed him. There was a lot of loose stuff in
this area. The descent was fairly long, but straighforward, and it led us
through some really beautiful terrain (the Upper and Lower Painted Bowls).