Austen's Blunt Arete
Buena Vista, Colorado
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What we do know
Inside Pike and San Isabel National Forests
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What's missing
No access route mapped
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Austen's Blunt Arete
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About this route
The Brood has 17 boulder problems catalogued across the V1 to V5+ range, with this climb representing the upper end of the crag's difficulty spectrum.
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