Southern Dinosaur Egg

Description 

Good quality rock with quiet and pleasant surroundings. A short hike from NCAR. Doesn't get too much sun in the winter since it's obscured by the canyon ridges.

Getting There 

Take Broadway and turn West on Table Mesa. Drive all the way to the end of this road to the NCAR parking lot. Now take the "NCAR Trail" along the nature walk along the rim of the hill. Look for a trail that cuts left and down the hill to some switchbacks. Follow this trail all the way to the water tower and continue left of the tower down to the Mesa Trail. Here, you will come to a junction with a Boulder Mountain Parks info/map board. Take the Mesa Trail to the South until you hit Bear Canyon. Follow this trail up the hill to the South, and then up the canyon on the South side of the creek.

The Classics

Featured Route For Southern Dinosaur Egg

Sneak Preview 5.11c  CO : Flatirons : ... : Southern Dinosaur Egg

To find the route, stay on the Bear Creek Trail past the first major rock formation (Bear Creek Spire) until the trail is only about 30ft. above the creek. The S. Dino Egg has a slabby east face with a large chimney (Hatch) and on its SW side, a steep face with large huecos on the left side. Scramble up easy 5th class terrain via an obtuse dihedral to get to a nice ledge with several large boulders, below Sneak Preview.Overhanging for the first...[more]   Browse More Classics in CO