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Location: CO : Boulder : Eldorado Canyon SP : Shirt Tail Peak : Gambit (5.8)
By: Chris Darr When: Jun 29, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: I did this route again this past Saturday. I noticed the trail up the gully from Rincon seemed a lot looser than before and a large portion of rock east of Gambit came down recently (within the last month?). Be careful when hiking up as the rockfall has made a lot of the large rocks in the gully unstable. Stick as close to the west wall as possible when hiking up.
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Location: CO : Golden : Clear Creek Canyon : The Canal Zone : Batso Canal (5.10)
By: Chris Darr When: May 19, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Really fun route. Thanks for putting it up Kirk, and good to meet you this evening!
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Location: International : Mexico : Tulum
By: Chris Darr When: May 11, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: We were just in Tulum this past week. We had the same issue as Sylvie did - no climbing on the rocks. There is a sign posted now as well.
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Location: AZ : Superstition Mountains : Hobgoblin Spires : Grandfather Hobgoblin (5.9)
By: Chris Darr When: Jul 17, 2008 | view comment >> |
Comments: The First Ascent party was the (in)famous Banditos... Look for the homemade bolt at the crux. and be sure to girth hitch the barrel cactus at the top of pitch 1, it drives your second crazy.
I also would not consider this a grade III, at most a II.
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Location: NV : Red Rock : Pine Creek Canyon : Brass Wall : The Big Horn (5.8)
By: Chris Darr When: Apr 30, 2008 | view comment >> |
Comments: Descent information in the Brock/McMillen guidebook is dangerously vague. We took the climb to the 7th pitch to find that walking over to rap Spectrum was impossible and getting to the Beer and Ice gulley would have been grueling at best. However I will say that the top of the climb exposed a beautiful slot canyon and a perfect place for an emergency bivy - as evidenced by an old fire ring and rock shelter.
After time spent exploring (in spite of poor descent info it truly was a beautiful and ... more >>
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Location: International : New Zealand : South Island : Paynes Ford
By: Chris Darr When: Jan 11, 2008 | view comment >> |
Comments: I agree with the Golden Fries in Takaka - great place and reasonable prices.
The hangdog camp sells two guidebooks, a $10 and a $25 version. The $10 is good for a couple of day jaunt with good descriptions and hand drawn topos, but tops out about the NZ 24 (hard 5.11) grades. The $25 book is more complete with all the harder routes and photos.
As for Takaka hill - when NZ indicates a curvy road sign - they mean it! I think I counted about 230 turns in 20km over that hill.
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Location: CO : Boulder : Eldorado Canyon SP : The Wind Tower : Wind Tower - SW Face : Breezy (5.5)
By: Chris Darr When: Aug 6, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: The twisted juniper at the top of P2 is now only a twisted juniper root. Belay at a good comfortable ledge in the dihedral.
The first pitch was good and the finger crack system on the left was lotsa fun!! I think this went at closer to 5.6 than 5.5
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Location: CO : CO Ice & Mixed : Silverton
By: Chris Darr When: Nov 14, 2005 | view comment >> |
Comments: I don't know what these people are talking about but Silverton area took a step backwards last week, with temps in the 60's in town much of the ice went away! I check every week by the way. 2nd gully is the only thing, everything else is a week away!
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Location: CO : Boulder : Eldorado Canyon SP : The Bastille : The Bastille - W Face : West Buttress (5.9+)
By: Chris Darr When: Oct 18, 2005 | view comment >> |
Comments: Fun route, the beginning traverse is a bit hairy but protects well. A bolt at the chimney eases the fact that your forgot to bring really big gear once again...
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Location: CO : Estes Park Valley : Lumpy Ridge : Sundance Buttress : Kor's Flake (5.7)
By: Chris Darr When: Oct 18, 2005 | view comment >> |
Comments: Great climb... As I had only a #4 Camalot at most, I placed it as marginally as I possibly could and then proceeded to shove myself into the chimney, instead of gracefully stemming the chimney as my partner did.The 3rd pitch is wild and tons o fun.
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