parm
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Oct 12, 2015
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined May 2009
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I'm heading down to the Boulder area for my 10 year anniversary/birthday here in a couple of weeks. Sounds like there is quite a few undocumented climbs in the area. If anyone can give me some info on an area with some easy/moderate climbs, I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance
parm
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Oct 12, 2015
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined May 2009
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I'm talking Boulder, Utah here. That's why I posted in Southern Utah forum. There are only a handful of climbs under the Burr trail/Long Canyon area.
Most of the sandstone in the Escalante area is super chossy. However even if only 3% of the rock yielded good climbing there could still be hundreds - even 1000's of routes...
Great backpacking and canyoneering in the area if climbing doesn't pan out for you!
Have only climbed in Long Canyon on the Burr once. There is some info in one of the Bjornstad guides I believe, but most of those routes are harder than what MP lists. It seems unlikely you'd find much in the way of moderates there.
Not sure how familiar you are with sandstone climbing in that region, but moderates are few and far between in general. You may be encountering wet weather as well, which would keep you off that rock type.
Aquarius is probably going to be getting snow by the time you get there.
There are a few routes in Capitol Reef, e.g. in Grand Wash/Capitol Gorge, and also some stuff in the formations just south of Torrey, but I haven't climbed any of that. Looks soft from a distance.
There's a place on the SE side of the Henrys called Black Mesa or such that is some sort of basalt. It might be in shape right now. You'd have to drive out the Burr and go south. So far as I know there is not much in the way of moderates, but I could be wrong.
parm
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Oct 29, 2015
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined May 2009
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Thanks bud. Yeah, it's looking a little wet. I'm going to just scope some stuff out on this trip. I appreciate the info
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