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Buffalo Creek

Submitted By: Darin Lang on Nov 30, 1999
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Basically, Buffalo Creek is a small burg in between Deckers and Pine on CO 126. The Buffalo Creek area is scattered and a bit confusing with many forest roads and dead ends in the area. It may be best to beg, borrow, or steal a guidebook with a good map of the area. Skinner Mountain, however, is easy to find. Just drive South from Pine (or North from Deckers) on CO 126 until you reach the Kelsey Campground. Park on the road outside the campground unless you want to pay the fee, and then hike West for about 15 minutes on an indistinct trail marked by the occasional cairn. This trail will deposit you about 50 feet above the start of Wally World. Skinner, and the rest of the rocks in the Buffalo Creek area, contains the usual S. Platte mix of quality cracks, less-than quality cracks, and runout slabs.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Buffalo Creek:
Southeast Gully   5.4     Trad, 5 pitches, 1000 feet   The Castle
Cardiac Crack   5.9+     Trad, 1 pitch, 100 feet   Asshole Rock
Two Jews Blues   5.10a     Sport, 3 pitches, 400 feet, Grade II   Little Scraggy Dome
Central Corner   5.10a     Trad   Skinner Mountain
Castle Corner aka Unnamed 5.10   5.10-     Trad, 3 pitches, 300 feet   The Castle
Nazi's Demise   5.10b     Trad, 2 pitches   Da Butts
Throne Room   5.10     Trad, 3 pitches, 600 feet   The Castle
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This is the Throne Room route. 80' rappel into the gully on the left, 165' rappel towards the base.

Throne Room 5.10  CO : South Platte : ... : The Castle
Right hand crack starting at the base of the Parapet, second major inset in. This route goes to the top of the Parapet. ...[more]   Browse More Classics in CO


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By Darin Lang
Jul 30, 2001

Some helpful mileages: (1) Buffalo Creek is about 9 miles south of US285/CO126 junction, or 1 mile south of Pine on CO126; (2) Skinner Mountain is 5.9 miles south of Buffalo Creek on CO126

By Jason Kaplan
From: Evergreen Co
Jul 22, 2008

Anyone have beta on the Twisted Sisters formation near A-hole rock? What routes exist, pics etc?

Also how many other undocumented but known crags are in the area between Da Butts and Little Scraggy (Two Jews Blues)?

By slim
Jul 23, 2008

Jason, there are a handful of decent to good lines on the Twisted Sisters rocks, at a good variety of grades. There are several fairly easy to moderate (5.6 to 5.9) crack systems, the best of which is a long slabby 5.7 corner. There are also a couple good cracks in the 5.10 range. Also, there is a fun hanging corner/flake sort of thing that is given 11d in hubbels book, but felt more like 11a or so. You should definitely head up there and check it out. There is quite a bit of rock in this area.

Also, there are some good cracks in the long, boulder-filled valley/gulley that runs fairly northward from A-hole rock. Check it out and give us a full report.

By Jason Kaplan
From: Evergreen Co
Aug 31, 2008

Well, let's just say that The Sisters aren't worth the walk on their own. I climbed what I would assume to be the slabby 5.7 corner which wasn't that great and less then 100 feet. Everything else seemed pretty hard/awkward or too short to justify the effort. I will post the area up later, with all the pics I took and update the asshole rock section with more pics of the other potential.