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Location: CO : CO Ice & Mixed : Big Thompson Canyon Ice
By: kyle kingrey When: Jan 6, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: NO ice on the Upper or Lower BTC falls. First time that I know of that no ice has been reported on the Upper flow.
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Location: CO : Estes Park Valley : Big Thompson Canyon
By: kyle kingrey When: Nov 21, 2008 | view comment >> |
Comments: Finally, there is a guidebook out for the Narrows. Nice job putting this together, Allen. It will be utilized.
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Location: CO : Estes Park Valley : Big Thompson Canyon : Beige Tube Area / The Narro... : Scoop Wall : Santa's Little Helpers (5.10c)
By: kyle kingrey When: Nov 10, 2008 | view comment >> |
Comments: I always thought this fine route was 5.10+ Definitely harder than 5.9. J.P must be an animal!
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Location: CO : The Mountain Shop Grand Re-...
By: kyle kingrey When: Apr 3, 2008 | view comment >> |
Comments: Great news! I'm not a big fan of buying on-line or driving to Neptune. Always had great customer service at MS.
Hey Josh, good stuff going on at SD!
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Location: CO : Estes Park Valley : Big Thompson Canyon : Five Point to a Fist Crag
By: kyle kingrey When: Nov 20, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: Jim Disney calls this section with the overhang 'A1 Roof'. Jim gave a bit of history about this rock a few years ago. Across the river from this area and just a bit to the west is crag known as 'The Erection'. As far as the spider goes Al, it wasn't far from the size of an orange....plus it had orange markings on it. Nasty damn thing. Definitely made the climb a grade or two harder.
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Location: CO : Rockies Win!
By: kyle kingrey When: Oct 10, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: I'm looking forward to watching the D-backs shiver on Sundays game.
It's shaping up to be a cool, rainy day :) Go Rockies!
Rocktober is definitely fitting this year, in more ways than one.
Take a day off mid-week, go to Lumpy and enjoy.
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Location: CO : Estes Park Valley : Lumpy Ridge : Lens Rock : Tennis Shoe Tango (5.6)
By: kyle kingrey When: Sep 28, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: My partner Russ and I climbed this fine route on 9-27-07
We started in the Right Chimney, did the lower traverse below Arch Crack, then tackled the entire 5.6 crack. Really fun climb with lots of good gear. #4 Camalot came in handy more than once.
If you're a beginning trad leader, do this climb; compares to Batman Pinnacle as far as difficulty goes.
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Location: CO : Estes Park Valley : Big Thompson Canyon : Palisade Mountain : Becker Wall : Criss Cross (5.9)
By: kyle kingrey When: Sep 25, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: This climb offers a good variety of interesting moves.
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Location: CO : Estes Park Valley : Big Thompson Canyon : Palisade Mountain : Becker Wall : Indiana (5.7+ PG13)
By: kyle kingrey When: Sep 25, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: This is a fun, short crack climb with some slab moves towards the top. If you wish, traverse left for several feet when the crack ends. Then climb straight up the thin slab towards the anchors.
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Location: CO : Estes Park Valley : Big Thompson Canyon : Linger Longer Rock
By: kyle kingrey When: Sep 11, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: I am told by John and his wife Jeri...(she is actually the landowner) this cabin has been in her family for 6 generations. Her grandfather was one of the first doctors in Loveland. Last name was Wright. Their cabin is called 'Roughin it Wright.' John and Jeri's last name is Ruff.
Anyway....they have informed me that they would like to see the bolts painted to better match the rock and to have at least the one bolt nearest the smiley face crack removed. The smiley face is located towards th... more >>
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Location: CO : Estes Park Valley : Big Thompson Canyon : Linger Longer Rock : Compressor Route (5.9)
By: kyle kingrey When: Sep 11, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: Route is a good one. Whoever bolted it did a nice job. However, it could have gone with about 4 or 5 less bolts. (Two bolts are near a very nice crack.) I had a chance to meet with the landowners, they are indeed some very nice people. Thankfully they are not the type of folk to have a knee jerk reaction about the many bolts now placed on their rock. They could have easily put up "no trespassing" signs. More time needs to be spent finding out about access issues before bolting and climbin... more >>
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Location: CO : Estes Park Valley : Big Thompson Canyon : Beige Tube Area / The Narro... : Ironing Board Slabs (Upper ... : Otherworld (5.10a PG13)
By: kyle kingrey When: Jul 13, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: Where is Adam's Rib?
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Location: CO : Estes Park Valley : Big Thompson Canyon : Beige Tube Area / The Narro... : Ironing Board Slabs (Upper ... : Slipstream Dihedral (5.9+)
By: kyle kingrey When: Jul 13, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: This is probably the best route in BTC.
After the last bolt you can either stay to the right or break slightly left for a bit more excitement. Good gear when the bolts disappear. This climb is easliy done as one pitch.
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Location: kyle kingrey : Scenery etc. : Photo
By: kyle kingrey When: May 25, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: Tombstone area along Kane Creek
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Location: CO : Estes Park Valley : Lumpy Ridge : Sundance Buttress : The Guillotine (5.10c)
By: kyle kingrey When: May 25, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: Great pictures Jim. Thanks.
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Location: CO : Estes Park Valley : Big Thompson Canyon : Beige Tube Area / The Narro... : Friendship 7 Wall : Friendship Seven (5.11a)
By: kyle kingrey When: May 22, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: The name of the route to the left of F7 has escaped me. I have it written down somewhere, and I am trying to figure out who even told me the name??
As for the grade of 5.9, I personally don't think so. The start is a bit runout, some of the better holds are a bit loose and the sustained nature and length of this climb sure make it feel like 5.10
It is a great route that takes power and elegance.
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Location: CO : Estes Park Valley : Big Thompson Canyon : Cedar Park Slab : Dags in Beanland (5.8)
By: kyle kingrey When: Apr 30, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: Climbed Dags on 4-29-07
Although I have climbed this route numerous times over the years, I still find this climb as an excellent outing.
We rappelled the route (starting the rap to climbers left) this time making for a much quicker descent.
There many variations to the noted routes as well as tons of potential for other, harder routes. An area that comes to mind that would rate 5.10 to 5.11 is the perfect slab 50' or so to the left of the 3rd belay. As of now there is no pro but a few bolt... more >>
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Location: Blitzo : Miscellaneous Photos : Photo
By: kyle kingrey When: Feb 14, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: Awesome pic.
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Location: CO : Estes Park Valley : Big Thompson Canyon : Beige Tube Area / The Narro... : The Borg : The Borg Crack (5.11)
By: kyle kingrey When: Feb 12, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: Well put Al.
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Location: CO : CO Ice & Mixed : Big Thompson Canyon Ice : ??? (WI4-5 M5-6)
By: kyle kingrey When: Feb 10, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: Nice job to send the overhang. Regardless of all of the bs going on this was a great accomplishment. A hard, lengthy, overhanging mixed route in the BTC! This climb, from the discovery of it, the vision of the line, to the FA of the overhang, had many folks involved in a variety of ways. How long has it been since a BTC route has seen so much activity (and controversy?) We can only hope this climb comes in more often in the years to come. There are still a few hard lines to be had! Think o... more >>
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Location: CO : CO Ice & Mixed : Big Thompson Canyon Ice : Unknown (WI4)
By: kyle kingrey When: Feb 9, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: Mark Ronca had the original FA.
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Location: CO : CO Ice & Mixed : Big Thompson Canyon Ice : Hidden Agenda (WI2)
By: kyle kingrey When: Feb 8, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: This climb was actually a lot of fun the other day-We did a cool variation to the left of the main flow which was about 3 feet wide and aprox 70' high of WI2. I then climbed the main flow which had some interesting moves on very thin ice-good practice here.
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Location: CO : CO Ice & Mixed : Big Thompson Canyon Ice : Sharky's Machine (WI3 PG13)
By: kyle kingrey When: Feb 5, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: Climbed Sharky's on 2-5-07. Still in pretty good shape. The warm weather these next couple of days however will bring this climb down.
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Location: CO : CO Ice & Mixed : Big Thompson Canyon Ice : Sharky's Machine (WI3 PG13)
By: kyle kingrey When: Feb 2, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: During the week of 1-22-07 Al Simons called me up and told me of a possible ice climb high above BTC. Later that day I went up with my binoculars and confirmed Al's suspicion. Indeed, very high above the Shark's Fin gully was a beautiful climb broken into two sections. Al and I made plans to climb it the next day. We started off by climbing 'Ice Age' a fun climb of about 50 feet of WI2+ or so. Then after some bushwhacking and a very warm, steep approach we arrived at what is now called 'Sharky... more >>
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Location: CO : CO Ice & Mixed : Big Thompson Canyon Ice : Disney Land (WI2-3 PG13)
By: kyle kingrey When: Jan 30, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: I led the main column of ice, and Joe Stiles soloed the line to left he is calling 'Have you seen my Kitten?' what a weirdo!
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