Rabbit Mountain

Andy-I know a few climbers who bouldered there in the late 80s and early 90s. Mark Sonnenfeld took met here a number of times and I also believe he took Steve Hong there too. Great spot with a number of good and high problems. You might want to look for a few old anchor bolts on the top of some of the higher problems. Later, Bob

I must add that Rabbit Mountain has seen it's most recent developement by Mike Freischlag, Pete Zoller, Patrick Wild, and Phillip Benningfield. These guys have climbed some proud and beautiful highballs in the area. I've merely lent a hand on the smaller stuff.

I haven't seen any bolts, but there are a couple of little red arrows painted on the base of some of the problems. Any idea who could have done this, Bob?

PW

I visited Rabbit Mountain and only found a few problems- it seemed all the good stuff was beyond a "No Trespassing Sign"The rock quality seemed good but not much was available, did I miss something? Any help would be much appriciated.Thanks

There is a great smaller area near the parking lot where a faint trail leads from by the bathrooms straight to where the cliff bands comes down to meet the plain, looks like a little cave from a distance. Not 200 yards. Maybe 8 problems, one being a 3-star V2 Arete. The majority of the problems are on the mountain just South (up & right) of where you park, you'll notice the giant cliff bands, and bigger-than-they-look boulders. Hike the main trail up and drop in from the top, or hike direct. The good looking stuff to the North (left) is private.

It goes without saying, but please refain from doing bong hits before your bouldering session. Also, you might want to lay off the alcohol and barbituates, because the only way that you might have mistaken this area for "classic" is if you were simultaneously doing all three at once. These things are best saved until you are safely at home on the couch so as to not alter your perception significantly. There does appear to be some good bouldering sectors on private land, however the stuff in the open space is limited to a fifty foot wide sector with maybe five good problems. This place is not worth your time unless you are willing to trespass, which is always a good thing to do on a Saturday afternoon when the landowners are out on their porch. Thanks for nothing! stoners.

Ok, so I re-visited this place, and walked to the obvious cliffband (south east of the parking), and I still don't get it. While there were several (4?) slightly-more-than vertical lines that were nice-looking, and 1.5 ok overhanging line(s) on short boulders, I didn't see

"Mega-classic bouldering lines [that] are already for the taking."

or even

"...lots of highball ventures over good landings, and free standing boulders with overhangs and slabs. "

Can anyone be more specific? Or am I the only one that hasn't figured out the joke?

P.S: There are (not surprisingly) rattlesnakes here.

Try parking on the east side of Rabbit Mountain off of 75th Street. This is the area Mark Sonnenfeld developed. Turn off of Ute Highway/ 66 at a Czech restaraunt, then drive north on 75th for a couple of miles. Turn left just before 75th jogs and changes names. It is a worthwhile area.

Sorry if I had to drag anyone from their worn out routines to climb somewhere they haven't. My mistake. Is new bouldering a bad thing? Can we have a website where honest contribution is a good thing. It's a database, people. So, this place gets me exicted. You didn't see what I've seen. You didn't climb what I climbed. You didn't climb the best of what was there, if you had, a nice day trip to Lyons would not of rubbed you so wrong. Was it that bad? Were the climbs "mega-classic" in the sense that John Gill holds its history in the back pocket of some worn out pair of Wrangler jeans? No. Are they "mega-classic" in the sense of; they're better than most Boulder County highballs, if you're interested have fun and be one the handful of people do have done them? YES!