Emerald Isle ascends an awesome green arete that is quite visible from the highway. Start with a tricky sequence to gain the arete before clipping the second bolt. From here, the climbing is sustained, compression, arete climbing on excellent stone for the next 3 bolts. Once you reach the crack, climb up and left along the crack to reach the anchor.

Emerald Isle

Date Night

Radu

Taker

Reckoning

Glaeken

Silver Leaner

This was the first line put up at The Keep, and it comes with some cool exposure. The route rides the face and the arête of the pillar-like formation on the right. It starts on the jugs down low and works sidepulls and edges on the arête. Move left near the top, and make several exciting moves to the finish.

Named after the demonic entity named Radu Molasar, this climb is suprisingly pumpy jaunt up the nice arete feature.

Start with a very tricky arete crux at the second bolt. Easier climbing leads up the dihedral to a final tricky finish back on the arete with less-than-perfect rock. It is best to climb to the jug a foot above the anchor before clipping.

Taker has a nice line of holds that is a decent but pumpy warm-up. Start just left of

Date Night

, and climb jugs to a tricky clip at bolt 3. Sustained edges and pinches leads to a final reachy move and a mantel to the anchor on

Date Night

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Reckoning is a great line up a nice swell of dark granite littered with just enough flat, Poudre edges.

Easy terrain leads immediately into some hard pulling to reach the 3rd bolt, which is followed by a crux jump move off a slopey sidepull to a monster, flat jug. From here, large reaches take you direct or a pumpy traverse left and around gets you to the last bolt. More taxing pulls on small but friendly holds leads to the anchor.

Glaeken is a fun route with a very technical crux on friendly handholds and complicated footwork. An easy start leads to a long crux boulder problem to reach the 4th bolt. From here, the climb gets a lot easier but equally fun on an exposed section of sculpted jugs leading up the broken crack feature.

This angling crack feature is surprisingly pumpy and has great stone until the last 15 feet or so, despite how it looks from the ground.

Start off an angled ramp, and climb tricky slopers to an awesome jug at bolt 2. From here, fingerlocks, sidepulls, and deceptively slopey jugs lead to a decent rest at the 4th bolt. Slap your way up the techy peg/crack features to reach the ledge/anchor.

A direct start without using the ramp would send this route into the 5.13 level.

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Routes in The Keep