I have a visitor coming from the UK. She loves slate. Any areas in Colorado worth checking out with a variety of 5.8 and under in trad, or 5.9 - 5.10 in sport? I'm hoping for something that doesn't involved to much danger to access, but I'll take what I can get.
Oh we'll be doing a bunch of other stuff. Eldo, Lumpy, SSV, Big Thompson Canyon, Moab, maybe a little in Zion and The Grand Canyon, and Shelf Road. Just wondering if there's any slate. Partly because I'd like to try it.
Mathias wrote:Okay, thanks John. I guess she'll just have to climb everything else! :D And I'll wait til I go to Wales.
At Trywll Mahr (sp) "The Big Hole" is UK's longest sport climb 160m 5.9/10 just done.
teece303
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Apr 8, 2015
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Highlands Ranch, CO
· Joined Dec 2012
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Do we have any actual slate or shale rock anywhere in Colorado?
I am not aware of any and I have never climbed any. Woods Quarry above just looks like a sandstone quarry. Isn't slate some kind of cooked sedimentary rock?
I've climbed on gneiss, granite, basalt, and sandstones in Colorado.
Shale is a sedimentary rock, usually composed mostly of mud and clay. It's basically compressed mud.
Slate is metamorphosed shale...so cooked compressed mud.
I don't think CO has much of either. We have a bit of slate (and shale) in UT. I have seen bands of it in big cottonwood. The slate we have is no good for climbing. Think stacked dinner plates.
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