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Everybody knows about the slated buildering that exists on the first level of the Engineering Center. I've seen some of the more obscure man-made problems sent by Tom Gage (i.e. under the stairs and in the corners.) This is a great place to build forearm strength but a much better venue for meeting young college women. Keep a secret? Check out the underground sandstone block party behind Macky Auditorium. M'kay. BTW: Has anyone ever possessed the cajones to scale the Math building?

This is sweet! Free climbing while I'm at school. There are plenty of challenges on the engineering building, including lots of cool traverses, man made cracks and stairs to climb, and a door traverse thats V3! It rocks so try it out!

CU is fun and you can get in a fast work our between classes. It is also shaded and usually has a nice breeze. If bouldering is a big waste of time you must either be wicked strong, don't need any help with endurance or your weak! I say the last one is your best bet.

hey buildering and bouldering both rock, who cares how the problem got there? it just exists for the conquering. Door traverses are fun, so are super highball math building climbs. :) If you live in Boulder be sure to convince a crowd of chicks to gather cause i"ll be there next year conquering the math building ropeless.

looks like the math building was done in front range freaks and the guy got down by running down the roof. haven't seen the movie, but there is a quick blip of it in the trailer. and to the previous AC...no shit it'd be "ropeless"

There is a clip in Front Range Freaks of someone climbing the math building. But the true challenge isn't that section. Its the tower to the east of the section done in FRF.

AC, in Front Range Freaks Timmy O'Neill scales the math building, then walks down the roof which is slanted at about a 45 degree angle. The holds are huge and unless you fuck up it should be good to go.

Try Fort Lewis College if you need a CU break,,,The Union building is a solid 5.10...Cooper Hall area of the dorms have good portruding holds...Major portrusion!!!

Just got hasseled by some middle aged professor type, his exact words were "I wouldn't be doing that here, there's an all points [bulletin] for anyone skating, rollerblading, riding bikes, and climbing walls on campus." I'm a freshman here, but already I've seen at least 15 different people climbing here as well as climbed here 4 or 5 times myself. What's the word, are they cracking down?

Because I guess I started this banter, I want the last word here. Buildering is not something we do because we're too weak to climb real rock. We don't do it because we're too poor to go to The Spot. We do it because it's there and we're there. I would never imagine someone traveling to CU to check this stuff out. I did it between math and physics classes, while everyone else out there was smoking or talking on cell phones. I did it to unwind, out of boredom, not to replace free climbing. Because we're climbers, something inside relentlessly prompts us to climb anything and everything, from the jungle gym in elementary school to the dorms at Williams Village ala Timmy O'Neill in FRF (That guy is missing a few bolts, I want to party with him!) I loved it when he did the Daily Camera building because I've made renegade ascents on dozens of downtown buildings and never thought of that one. Climbing is an impulse. It's about freedom. So don't let CU professors or anyone else scold you for buildering, don't let other climbers tell you what climbing is or isn't. Monkeys in cages would probably prefer trees, and yet they continue to swing around their environment.