Great moves, beautiful position, stellar views, and warm afternoon sun make this climb worthy of its namesake. A few easy clips up a slab warm you up for the technical stemming crux, just below an obvious horizontal, followed by a steep layback sequence.

Spartacus

Winners and Losers

Fight to the Finish

The Comp

Chariots of Fire

Spectator Sport

Peanut Gallery

Maximus

Chariots of Fire (to 1st Anchor)

Climb fun mantel, roof, and dihedral moves up to a thin face close to the crux corner of

Peanut Gallery

. Do a balancy move to get up to a 1/2" crimp rail, follow the rail to the right on thin footholds, and then reach around the arete to a good sidepull. Work your feet up, and pop for good holds at the top. Some of the small flakes are less than solid.

Fight to the Finish starts easy and keeps getting harder. Head up to the double dihedral, and use laybacks and stemming to move up. The crux is up at the top and involves some technical high stemming and a long reach to a good pocket in the crack.

The first two thirds of the route is pretty easy climbing up blocky, fairly low angle terrain up to a good ledge and alcove. Move up through the small roof to good crimps on the face above. Clipping the anchors is a bit tricky. Step right for better holds, and reach back left to clip. This route gets a 10d rating in the guidebook, but four of us felt it was a bit easier.

Fairly moderate terrain leads to the

1st anchor (11b)

shared with

Maximus

. Crank for 5 more bolts to the top of the wall for the bonus points!

Spectator Sport ascends progressively more difficult slab. Stay on the bolt line for hard slab climbing at the top, or bail out left.

From Tod Anderson's

Rampart Range Rocks

:

"Fall on this one and you may hear some boos from the peanut gallery.  Go straight up through some large features to a shallow, right-facing corner.  Tenuously stem up this to the anchor.  This may be height-dependent."

This is a great line on the west-facing monolith at the Arena!

This line is fairly easy to spot.  Looking at the west-facing wall (on the left as you come into the Arena), there is a slabby section that rises to a spot where the wall then gets steep.  Just right of this slab is a section of wall that is steep all the way.  Maximus follows this steep portion.  It goes up a section of slightly overhanging red stone that is pretty obvious, about 80 feet long.

Starts fun and leads up to a section with a tough undercling. Work your feet high and match on a high left rail.  Smear on the wall on poor feet and lunge left to a good hold. This section is the crux, probably 11d/12a.

Continue up to the last bolt and a tricky 11c finish.

Photo below is Nate Adams nearing the anchors of Maximus.  He is actually on an easier left hand route that comes to the same anchors.

Beautiful stone!

This route is more commonly done without its burly

extension

. Meander up the slab to attack the beautiful headwall through some fun moves on a mini-arete guarding the chains. While not as classic as the neighbor to the left, this shares its anchor with

Maximus

and allows one to easily hang the draws and preview.

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Location

Protection

Routes in East Side Wall