When Pigs Fly

I went through the proper channels and got approval to bolt this route from the Snow Canyon CAT Team (the group that approves/denies route development in Snow Canyon administered areas) back in 2017. I put up Makin Bacon and, with approval, bolted the old Ron Olevsky line Pearls Before Swine, but didn't have time to get to this and two routes to the right of it that I had approval for.

A few years later we found that someone had come back and bolted this and several other routes to the right of it without approval. On inspecting the work we found it was extremely shoddy and dangerous even. We contacted the Snow Canyon Park Manager (Kristen Comella) to ask her what she would like us to do about the route. She asked us to remove the bolts and patch the holes. Removing the bolts was scarily easy. Some of them pulled out by hand! And some of them (cobra bolts) had the cone put on backwards. Scary stuff.

I contacted Kristen again about the routes and received her approval to bolt the routes again and did so today (4-24-2021).

For future reference, if you are bolting in the extremely soft rock at Cougar Cliffs you should (1) go through the proper approval process and (2) use a 12mm bit (0.472441 inches) to drill your holes if you are using half inch bolts (which you should be using at least half inch bolts in this rock). The Desert Rat in St George sells 12mm bits for this reason.

Anyways, this (and the two routes to the right of it) are a fun little addition to the wall. Sorry to whoever went to the effort of putting these up in the first place. I did not mean to steal your thunder. But it is also really, really important that we stay in good with land managers in this area and go through the proper channels.

Enter from the parking lot, walk west barely to the rim of Paradise Canyon, turn left and head south weaving your way into some moderate size domes. The route is on the back side of the second tallest dome.

4 bolts to chains