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The Access Fund Trailhead

Submitted By: Matthew Seymour on Oct 15, 2009
Administrators: Jesse Zacher, Ben Mottinger, Leo Paik, John McNamee, Frances Fierst, Monomaniac
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Description 

The climbs accessed form this trailhead exist on the Access Fund owned Sunday Wall, Fortress Wall, and Hidden Valley Wall, as well as the privately owned (and currently for sale) Television Wall. In general the rock here is very good. Many excellent crack climbs exist on Hidden Valley and Fortress Walls. Sunday Wall has a few well traveled crack climbs, as well as many bolt protected climbs including several classic steep slabs. Sunday Wall has also seen more development in recent years than any other crag in the canyon. Television Wall is home to both crack and face climbs of good quality, including the super classic Rubarama.

This is where land acquisition for the sake of climbing access began. The Access Fund, in conjunction with local climbers, purchased Sunday Wall and Hidden Valley Wall in 1992, and Fortress Wall in 1993. The Access Fund donated a total of $10,000 to this effort (land was much cheaper then!), and they have held the title to these lands ever since. It is interesting to note that this strategy did not really work for the Access Fund who now helps smaller, local non-profits purchase land, but does not like to hold land itself. Nevertheless, this purchase set an important example of resource protection through land acquisition for climbers.


Getting There 

Drive 2.2 miles on CO-141 past the divide road turn off to a large pull out on the right side of the road with a wooden stile over the fence.

All cliffs are accessed by first following the trail up to Sunday Wall and then traversing the cliff.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for The Access Fund Trailhead:
Beginner's Luck   5.7     Trad, 1 pitch, 80 feet   Sunday Wall
Three's Company   5.8     Trad, 1 pitch, 60 feet   Sunday Wall
Sun Dancer   5.8     Trad, 3 pitches, 160 feet   Sunday Wall
Sweet Sunday Serenade   5.9     Trad, 3 pitches, Grade II   Sunday Wall
Black Dynamite   5.10c/d     Trad, 1 pitch, 50 feet   Sunday Wall
Renaissance   5.10d     Trad, 2 pitches, 210 feet   Fortress Wall
Catch a Wave   5.11a     Sport   Sunday Wall
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Featured Route For The Access Fund Trailhead
Hanging Chad at the start of the business.

Obe Won Canobe 5.9  CO : Grand Junction : ... : Hidden Valley Wall
P1: Climb up past a flake into a hand crack. Pass a short bulge and then place the crux protection in the offwidth above. Climb the offwidth (crux) and gain a nice hand/finger crack. Climb the crack to a ledge on the right and belay.P2: Continue up the nice finger/hand crack system with some nice exposure to a large ledge. Pass by a tree, go left of it, with nice crack moves. Move up a chimney formed by the wall and a pillar. From the top of t...[more]   Browse More Classics in CO