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Getting ThereBasically, Buffalo Creek is a small burg in between Deckers and Pine on CO 126. The Buffalo Creek area is scattered and a bit confusing with many forest roads and dead ends in the area. It may be best to beg, borrow, or steal a guidebook with a good map of the area. Skinner Mountain, however, is easy to find. Just drive South from Pine (or North from Deckers) on CO 126 until you reach the Kelsey Campground. Park on the road outside the campground unless you want to pay the fee, and then hike West for about 15 minutes on an indistinct trail marked by the occasional cairn. This trail will deposit you about 50 feet above the start of Wally World. Skinner, and the rest of the rocks in the Buffalo Creek area, contains the usual S. Platte mix of quality cracks, less-than quality cracks, and runout slabs. The ClassicsMountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Buffalo Creek:
Southeast Gully 5.4 Trad, 5 pitches, 1000 feet The Castle
Unknown 5.7 5.7 Sport, 1 pitch, 90 feet Skinner Mountain
Fun Climb 101 5.8 Trad, 3 pitches, 350 feet Top Of The World : Ragnarok
Sugar Magnolia 5.9+ Trad, 3 pitches Humphrey's Dome
Cardiac Crack 5.9+ Trad, 1 pitch, 100 feet Asshole Rock
Two Jews Blues 5.10a Sport, 3 pitches, 400 feet, Grade II Little Scraggy Dome
Central Corner 5.10a Trad, 1 pitch Skinner Mountain
Castle Corner aka Unnamed 5.10 5.10- Trad, 3 pitches, 300 feet The Castle
Nazi's Demise 5.10b Trad, 2 pitches Da Butts
Dumb-De-Dumb-Dumb 5.10b Trad, Sport, 2 pitches, 200 feet Da Butts
Throne Room 5.10 Trad, 3 pitches, 600 feet The Castle
Fat Monkey's Birthday 5.10c Trad, 2 pitches, 80 feet Gnome Dome
Craggy Tur 5.10+ Trad, 3 pitches, 300 feet Little Scraggy Dome
Kayla's Way 5.10c/d Sport, 1 pitch, 50 feet Da Butts
Miss Manners 5.11a Sport, 3 pitches, 250 feet Little Scraggy Dome
deGaulle's Nose free route 5.11d Trad, 1 pitch, 75 feet Obscure Buffalo Creek Rocks
Featured Route For Buffalo Creek
Castle Corner aka Unnamed 5.10 5.10- CO : South Platte : ... : The Castle
3 pitches of granite crack climbing. Pure joy.P1: Work your way up cracks and hollow flakes to the flake with many slings. The first time I climbed this, I stayed mostly left until the long reach below the flake, and then traversed to the right under the flake and back into the right crack until traversing to the flake. The second time around I found you could stem up for a good distance and the gear on the right seemed a lot easier to place then on the hollow crap on the left (although I follow...[more] Browse More Classics in CO
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