This route has been referred to as the most fearless route in all of Ouray County. Now, the Fearless Animal has a fairly long ramp with lots of bolts allowing you to clip freely, and it has a hard bouldery crux, FYI.

The Fearless Animal

La Arana

Fear the Animal

Larva

The Honey Badger

Randall's Shaft

The Jackal

Start up the same scrappy ramp as

The Fearless Animal

, but head left and go up, stupid. Now the crux comes at the last bolt and little do you know, FYI, you're about to be stung. Hang on for a hard boulder problem that likes to eat your skin and pick up the last hueco jug on the left. Now clip the anchor.

So far, this is the rightmost route at the crag. Start in a currant patch (shorts wearers beware) and follow a left-trending line of bolts through edges and small corners to a Fixe ring anchor. Some suspect rock and lots of lichen and silt will clean up with more ascents.

This was the original route to be bolted on the wall when its potential was first discovered by Justin Putnam. Bryan Gilmore was one of the first to put some time into it, and then abandoned it, and bolted the variation that traverses left before the crux to an independent anchor (The Fearless Animal). After Putnam bolted the route, he suspected that it might be Ouray's first 5.14, and it may very well be, only repeat ascents will tell.

Oh, now this is the crag warmup, stupid. Ew, you have to use your feet on Larva - disgusting. Head up the little dihedral just left of a larger corner and smack the s#!+ out of the cruxy top-out. Balance your way to the anchor, try not to stray too far right, FYI!

This is "The Honey Badger". It takes what it wants.  It moves about freely between

Larva

and

The Fearless Animal

.

Climb edges, pockets, and sidepulls up the obvious "shaft" until you are bitch-slapped by a couple crimps and crank.

Description

Protection

Routes in Randall's Badger Sanctuary aka Spider Den