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Location: IA : Pictured Rocks : Windy Point : Hollywood on a Buck O' Five (5.9)
By: Ryan Kane When: Aug 4, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Climbed this route, or at least started up it. While cleaning spider webs out of my face and working up towards the first bolt, placed my hand in a great pocket that was already occupied by a large, thick-legged, brown spider. Beware, but don't let it scare you off! These routes all looked great, just need more traffic to "clean" them up.
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Location: CO : Boulder : Eldorado Canyon SP : Redgarden Wall : Redgarden - Tower One : ... : Photo
By: Ryan Kane When: Jun 23, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Is that the Teton skier, Bill Briggs?
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Location: IA : Indian Bluffs : Photo
By: Ryan Kane When: Jun 11, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: This route pictured went at an easy 8 or so up to a double anchor than continued over a tricky (probably harder than 10) roof. We attempted the route immediately to the right and kinda behind the flake but failed on that tricky roof too.
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Location: IA : Indian Bluffs
By: Ryan Kane When: Jun 11, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Hi crimpandpeel,
Where would one find a guidebook for Indian Bluffs?
Do you live in the area? I'm in Dubuque and would like to see more of Indian Bluffs. Very cool area and I've only seen maybe 1/2 of the routes. I hear there's 30+.
Thanks
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Location: IA : Backbone State Park
By: Ryan Kane When: Jun 11, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: If anyone knows names of rocks or routes, history, more info, please advise. Thanks.
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Location: IA : Backbone State Park : Backbone Trail area
By: Ryan Kane When: Jun 11, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: If anyone knows names of rocks or routes, history, more info, please advise. Thanks.
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Location: WI : Devil's Lake : East Bluff - East Rampart : Pedestal Buttress : D.L.F.A (5.11) : Photo
By: Ryan Kane When: May 5, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: How are you guys still alive!?
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Location: CO : Lyons : South Saint Vrain Canyon : Scout Rock : Photo
By: Ryan Kane When: Apr 14, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Thank you, I liked this one a lot as well. I took this and about 20 similar shots, this one was the best!
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Location: CO : Golden : Clear Creek Canyon : Photo
By: Ryan Kane When: Mar 18, 2009 | view comment >> |
Comments: Thanks for the clarification Cory. How can you tell?
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : Indian Peaks : Lone Eagle Peak
By: Ryan Kane When: Oct 19, 2008 | view comment >> |
Comments: Getting There #2
Take US 34 north out of Granby. Exit to the east on Arapaho Bay Road. Skirt the southern side of Grand Lake; the road turns into solid gravel, smooth and well-kept, no 2WD worries.
Pass Arapaho Bay and continue towards Monarch Lake Trailhead. Park and start hiking east on Cascade Creek Trail. Follow signs towards Crater Lake, Lone Eagle dominates.
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Location: CO : Lyons : South Saint Vrain Canyon : Piz Badille : Sympathetic Mind Fuck (5.6)
By: Ryan Kane When: Sep 25, 2008 | view comment >> |
Comments: I've yet to climb the route and I do appreciate the work Bernard has done. I've used your guidebooks before and had great times doing so. I even met you once while I was working at Backcountry Escape (you stopped in to see Dan H) and you seemed like a great guy.
It is my personal opinion that we do not need to water down route names. I'm sure your kids have heard worse things on the playground before they even knew what they meant. I feel like obscene or interesting names add to a route, ra... more >>
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Location: CO : Boulder : Upper Dream Canyon
By: Ryan Kane When: Sep 23, 2008 | view comment >> |
Comments: I agree with other that this IS indeed a popular homosexual and nudist hangout from a few experiences (no I'm not gay, no I don't have a problem with old men tanning naked-just awkward, yes I do have problem seeing man-on-man sex acts in a beautiful sunny canyon on a weekend)
Also, coed nudists hang here. This I have no problem with.
http://mountainproject.com/v/colorado/boulder/upper_dream_ca>>>>>
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Location: UT : Zion National Park : Moonlight Buttress : The Moonlight Buttress (Cle... (5.8 C1) : Photo
By: Ryan Kane When: Sep 8, 2008 | view comment >> |
Comments: timmy! is funny
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : RMNP - Rock : Hallett Peak : Culp-Bossier (5.8+) : Photo
By: Ryan Kane When: Aug 22, 2008 | view comment >> |
Comments: That's a certainly a sea of rock.
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Location: WY : Cody : South Fork Shoshone (Ice) : Photo
By: Ryan Kane When: Jul 31, 2008 | view comment >> |
Comments: you're crazy man! the things we do for this sport
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Location: CO : Boulder : Boulder Canyon : Easter Rock : Coloradoddity (5.10c)
By: Ryan Kane When: Jul 23, 2008 | view comment >> |
Comments: There's another route called Coloradoddity on Big Ass Slab at Lily Lake, climbed in 2001 by the same guys with the same name. This makes me curious. 2 guys name 2 sport routes in 2 separate areas the same name in the same year?
http://mountainproject.com/v/colorado/estes_park_valley/co_h>>>>>
Anybody know which one is real? Both?
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Location: CO : Boulder : Flatirons : Central : Fifth Flatiron : East Face, North Side (5.3 R)
By: Ryan Kane When: Jul 15, 2008 | view comment >> |
Comments: What a great climb! And thanks to mp.com and its wonderful users, the beta on this page for pitches, raps, and descent (south side, thanks George!) is spot on. We did it in 5 logical pitches with no simulclimbing. They were all ~60m except for a short final summit bid.
The 1st was a pretty sketch anchor but a comfortable ledge (I thought route crux was on this pitch). 2nd was a solid tree with at least 2 other solid trunks within 10m. 3rd was comfy on ridge, 4th was in big system just unde... more >>
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : The Crestones : Ellingwood Ledges (5.7)
By: Ryan Kane When: Jul 9, 2008 | view comment >> |
Comments: I don't want people's first impression to be mine, let it get lost at the bottom of the page so no one is discouraged from trying this route. Do it yourself and form your own opinions, it is a good climb.
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : The Crestones : Ellingwood Ledges (5.7)
By: Ryan Kane When: Jul 9, 2008 | view comment >> |
Comments: I understand its an alpine route and I totally agree the sights and surroundings make it memorable. I'm just saying I expected more out of a "classic."
The only other "classic" in Colorado is the Diamond. I did that last summer with the same partner so maybe my standards of a classic (2000 feet of vertical, beautiful, solid granite) were already inflated.
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Location: CO : Alpine Rock : The Crestones : Ellingwood Ledges (5.7)
By: Ryan Kane When: Jul 7, 2008 | view comment >> |
Comments: gotta admit, not extremely impressed with this route. lots of exposed 3rd/4th class leads to 2 pitches of rock and a cool summit but the authors of "50 Classics" must have never been to Eldo or Lumpy.
Here's my TR from 7/6/08
http://14ers.com/php14ers/tripreport.php?trip=4604&cpgm=trip>>>>>
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Location: CO : Boulder : Flatirons : Central : Fourth Flatiron : Excellent Crack (5.8)
By: Ryan Kane When: Jun 2, 2008 | view comment >> |
Comments: Thanks for the feedback George and Jason.
We didn't descend off the summit. We were losing daylight so finished this pitch and bailed down a 3rd class gully to the north(quite possibly Fern Gully). No GMP or 4th Flatiron description I've seen on this site or in the guidebook.
Really had no idea what we were on, just saw a great looking feature and went for it. I looked in the current Flatiron guide and couldn't find anything resembling any of the 3 routes I did up there. Actually, both time... more >>
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Location: j fassett : krispy cream : Photo
By: Ryan Kane When: May 28, 2008 | view comment >> |
Comments: is that the top of conundrum couloir in the background with snow? i climbed and skied castle over a year ago (descent down the backside to conundrum hs) and wish we could have skied that couloir.
and this certainly isnt a recent pic, the elks still have soooo much snow from this season!
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Location: Ryan Kane : jump : Photo
By: Ryan Kane When: May 15, 2008 | view comment >> |
Comments: after finally reading and loving The Monkeywrech Gang, I really don't understand your alias or your photo comment, Abbey.
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Location: CO : Lyons : South Saint Vrain Canyon : Scout Rock : Rawhide (5.10c)
By: Ryan Kane When: May 12, 2008 | view comment >> |
Comments: I believe a key crux hold (left hand, downward jutting hold) broke off and made the crux moves harder. Or I might just suck. Either way, the crux seemed much harder than the 1st 2 times I've done the route. If you're climbing this route for the crux, you're in it for the wrong reason as the chimney and ensuing moves are really nice.
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Location: CO : Lyons : South Saint Vrain Canyon : Scout Rock : The Triple Mantle (5.9)
By: Ryan Kane When: May 12, 2008 | view comment >> |
Comments: After mantles, top 3-4 bolts look VERY hard and improbable (relative to my ability, ie-undoable). Saw chalk but very blank-looking bulge leading to small ridges, I'm sure it can be done, but I'd like to see it! I ran out the finish up the easy chimney to the anchors.
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