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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : Babcock Peak
By: Jared Brown When: Aug 30, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: For the Boren Creek approach, the road is currently drivable for ATVs up to the mine at the end, but there's a large downed tree about half way up the road that would be difficult to get by even in a small vehicle, but probably just barely doable in a narrow vehicle without sliding into the bushes. Regardless, the lower switchbacks are mostly 3 point turns even in a Jeep, and the first one is interesting coming down, quite fun sliding sidways on loose rock on a tight, off kilter switchback befo... more >>
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : Vestal Peak
By: Jared Brown When: Dec 3, 2004 | view comment >> |
Comments: I took a look at the approach from kite lake more this summer, it wouldn't be too bad except for one long stretch of talus and the short steep part up over the pass between stormy gulch and vestal basin. You could drop down hunchback pass on the trail, then take a side trail up stormy gulch to the pass into vestal basin, or you could start at kite lake, go up over the pass between hunchback mountain and white dome, then cut across to a pass just south of peak one. I didn't actually do the part... more >>
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : Vestal Peak
By: Jared Brown When: Aug 30, 2002 | view comment >> |
Comments: Another thing, the continental divide trail is marked in a different spot on the maps I had. Heading east from the beartown road, the trail goes over Hunchback pass, starts down toward Vallecito Creek, and then cuts up Nebo Creek and then down to Ute Lakes. There are signs, but the maps are wrong, so it was confusing.
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : Vestal Peak
By: Jared Brown When: Aug 30, 2002 | view comment >> |
Comments: The Beartown trailhead would work, but I don't know if it would save much time. I have only been there from Silverton. From Silverton, head northeast out of town, and head up Cunningham gulch to Stony Pass. It should be possible to make it over the pass in a 2 wheel drive with some clearance. The road to Beartown, however, is very rough. Most of it is dried up mud puddles, but toward the end it gets rocky. If you continue to Kite lake, the Continental Divide trail crosses the road shortly ... more >>
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Location: CO : San Luis Valley : Penitente Canyon : Penitente - Inner Canyon : Tanks for the Hueco (5.10d)
By: Jared Brown When: Jul 22, 2002 | view comment >> |
Comments: A fun variation for the very beginning is to take the fun hand crack to the right, then a funky move left onto the ledge and the first bolt.
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Location: UT : Wasatch Range : Little Cottonwood Canyon : Pentapitch Area
By: Jared Brown When: Jun 24, 2002 | view comment >> |
Comments: The description how to get to this rock is confusing if you've never been there before. The two large pine trees are bigger than the other large pine trees in the area and are a few feet off the road to the left, at the third trail that branches off the road. Stay along the right edge of the boulder field and go to the top right corner of it, where a short trail will lead you to the base of pentapitch. Sasquatch is to the right, and begins on a low angle slab below an overhang.
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Location: CO : San Luis Valley : Penitente Canyon : Penitente - Entrance Area : Mysterious Redhead (5.11a)
By: Jared Brown When: Mar 31, 2002 | view comment >> |
Comments: Is the actual climb the one that starts at the same place as the climb pictured and splits off left, or is it the next climb over that goes up the scoop on the left side of the face?
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Location: CO : San Luis Valley : Penitente Canyon : Penitente - Entrance Area : Mysterious Redhead (5.11a)
By: Jared Brown When: Mar 9, 2002 | view comment >> |
Comments: I don't know Bob, sure looks like Mysterious Redhead to me, unless the guidebook I was using was wrong.
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Location: UT : Moab Area : Indian Creek : Scarface : Scarface (5.11)
By: Jared Brown When: Feb 19, 2002 | view comment >> |
Comments: I haven't done many routes at IC, or many cracks at all for that matter, but this was a really cool route. The bottom of the route has three or so pods in the crack, and going from the first to the second is much harder is you're short. The hardest part for me was fighting the pump on the thin hands crack after the last pod to a block wedged into the crack. The only downfall is it seems to be the only really good route in the area.
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