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Tiara Rado

Submitted By: Jesse Zacher on Jul 18, 2006
Administrators: Jesse Zacher, Ben Mottinger, Leo Paik, John McNamee, Frances Fierst, Monomaniac
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Description 

Climbing similar to Liberty Cap (on same cliff band). Many quality crack climbs of various grades available. Around 10-15 climbs.


Getting There 

Drive west out of Grand Junction on Broadway (CO Highway 340) into the Redlands. Drive approximately 3 miles turning left (south) onto Redlands Parkway. After 0.5 mile the road curves right (east) and becomes South Broadway at South Camp Road. Continue west on South Broadway until it makes a left hand turn (past the Tiara Rado Golf Course, the road weaves and turns for a while). Go down S. Broadway then take a left on Tiara Dr. Follow the road until it weaves close to cliff band. Park in front of drainage beside a 15 Ft long cement curb. Hike Drainage until you go under fence/iron bars. Walk until you intersect a trail and take a right. Follow until there is a weakness/gully of rotten Granite. Walk up that and the cliffs will be on the right hand of the U-shaped/ bowl of sandstone wall.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Tiara Rado:
Jolly Tower - Marital Bliss   5.8 C1     Trad, Aid, 1 pitch, 160 feet, Grade III   
100' Hands   5.10a/b     Trad, 1 pitch, 100 feet   
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The crux Section of this thin route. Picture Credit goes to Thomas Kappler.

Flapper 5.12-  CO : Grand Junction : ... : Tiara Rado
Great climb! Start off with sandy/ ramping small hands/fingers. Hit the clean finger splitter, which is just past vertical, fire to the anchors. Pinches down at the top....[more]   Browse More Classics in CO


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The south face cragging of the Tiara Rado Wall.

The south face cragging of the Tiara Rado Wall.


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By Jesse Zacher
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From: Grand Junction, Co
Jul 18, 2006

Not much information on First ascent or names or grades so I am just using my best guess.

By BJ Sbarra
From: Carbondale, CO
Oct 21, 2009

How long does the approach take?

By Matthew Seymour
From: Grand Junction, CO
Oct 22, 2009

Approach takes about 15-20 minutes. It's really short, like under a mile, but very steep.

Also, once you cross the fence you want to follow the trail right until you are under a bit of the hill that is less steep than surrounding areas. This is just past the obvious large drainage. From here you follow a faint game/climbers trail up the hill and into a a small drainage. Sometimes the start of the trail has cairns, sometimes not.