Dinosaur Rock

Description 

Dinosaur Rock is home to a number of easy to moderate slab routes. There are a number of scrambling approaches from Bear canyon, but the easiest approach is from the Mallory Cave Trail. There a couple varitions on the east face and a couple on the south. The standard descent route is to down climb the west face route (5.0). There is a tree about 30 feet down this route that can be used for a single rope rap.

Getting There 

Park at NCAR, and follow the Mallory Cave Trail past square rock. The first major rock formation that the trail runs into is Dinosaur rock. There will be a sign near the base showing the bird closures around Bear Creak Spire in the Spring. A good trail leads you to the east and south faces.

Featured Route For Dinosaur Rock

Milk Bone 5.13a  CO : Flatirons : Dinosaur Rock

This climbs the pronounced, limestone-like tufa feature in the middle of the north face of Dinosaur Rock. It's 30 meters long, and sustained as all hell once you step off the ledge below the tufa. It is about 20 feet west (uphill) from Patience Face. One of the best single-pitch climbs I've done in Colorado...or anywhere.Scramble up the ramps, and then move right to left across the lower choss ledges to start....[more]