Nicole - sounds like your daughter's friend needs some new parents.
Chris - didn't match you w/ percious until just now.
Greg, Lee, Mike, the as yet to meet Tracy, good to see ya'll.
Chloe had a blast, lets do it again.

Fantastic day - nice to connect names to faces. Lucy and I are always available for Sundays.

Chris and Mike, your children were so cute and well behaved. Nice to see you guys.

This was a great idea and a definite success. Let's do it again sometime. Perhaps we could climb in boulder and treat the kids to ben and jerry's afterwords... I have never seen Colden eat so much food at one sitting (at dinner) before... He got a work out chasing around all the cute girls at the crag ;-).

cheers.
-chris

Hey, glad you all had a good time. I noticed your get together and thought it looked like a lot of fun.

Yeah, it was kinda fun with the kids. I let my inner child out and I found out he was a pirate. AARRR Matey!

I can't for the next climb with kids! We bought our 7 yr. old a harness today, can't wait for her to try it! Still wondering how it will be with a 2 1/2 year old at the crag... How old are some of your kids?

Nicole - Chloe is 8. Have you taken your daughter out on the rocks yet? It is a real process. Sometimes they'll climb, other times they're more interested in tarzaning around on the rope, or even just rolling in the dirt.

Nicole: Mine is 2 years, 2 months. She rocked it hard - even stayed awake long enough to get home before napping.

I'm trying to think of other good 1-pitch, child-friendly areas and am kind of drawing a blank. Bottom of Rincon could sorta work, Upper Dream Canyon could sorta work (if there aren't too many frisky nudists), Animal World could kinda sorta work.

Anybody else have good ideas? How's Shelf for kidlets?

Red Rock Canyon OS, Penitente, Shelf's not bad, parts of Castlewood; all have rattlers though. My son walked right past one at CWC when he was like 2, thats why I'm more nervous than normal about them. The find I mentioned to you on Sun. looks good too, including kid-climbable stone.

Wow, sorry I missed this. If you guys do it again, I'd bring my 5 year old.

Hey all anyone up north, FTC or loveland?? I have 2 6/4 boys and am always looking for a reason to get out and get dirty. I detached a lot of responsibility so I am open to horsetooth, vedawoo, rabbit mountain, or even RR in the springs during the week. Summers coming maybe we could make a league and meet on t/th or something like that...

My boys are 9 (as of May 13) and 13. I have taken them climbing in Eldo (West Ridge), Shelf, Red Rock Canyon Open Space, NTM, Castlewood Canyon and also Highwire in Clear Creek. I would not recommend Highwire tho due to the 4th classy approach spots.

Jeffrey, I have never been to Horsetooth but would love to go. That might be a fun outting with the kids one weekend.

Shelf is fantastic. They love to camp there. My boys don't climb that much but really enjoy being outside with other kids. Sometimes they will jump on a route and shock the heck out of me with how well they do. There is this cool little 5.5 on Cactus Cliff that was bolted for kids. My older son lead it. The bolts are about 3' apart. Once the night temps get a little warmer I will post something for a camping/climbing trip to Shelf.

Mike.. .I must have missed you there. Were you the guy in the black cap that I briefly spoke to at the base of Brain Cloud?

Maybe we can get a yahoo group started for parents and kids climbing. We used to have a datbase here on mountainproject but the originator is not active on the site any longer and is living in Ouray. I would be happy to get it started. It can send out E-mail notifications to those who sign up, on upcoming events and such. Let me know. If there is enough interest I will start the link and post it here for anyone interested to join.

We would definately be interested in a climbing parents group. We have not taken them outside climbing yet. We were just too concerned about keeping them safe without an extra adult around. So going out with other parents and little kids would be perfect! They both love to play on the rock at our gym in Evergreen. Rattlesnakes are definately a concern... I saw 3 last summer at Table Mtn.

Tracy:
Yeah, that was me with the black cap. Gotta keep the giant white dome out of the sun, it disrupts satellite communications.

Look at the pent-up demand for a kiddie club! Good idea about the Yahoo site.
Are you in for the Memorial Day trip?

Memorial Day is a great idea! Count us in! Table Mtn. again? We could also do some late afternoon/after work climbs this summer once the kids are out of school and the daylight is long.

I will get the yahoo group up and running tonight and post the link here.

Mike, we are not going to be able to make it to Penitente. Both boys have baseball games that weekend. Come June I will be able to take weekend road trips again.

Ok, we won't be able to go that far either. We'll look at the calendar and plan something through the yahoo group. Thanks Tracy!

Anybody interested in a Friday afternoon session? Weather looks nice...

Friday afternoon would be great but you sure about the weather? I just checked weather.com and it says 47 snow/wind for Golden. We can play it by ear.

Hi everyone! I started the yahoo site. Nothing has been added but it is a place to start. Sign up. I think the greatest benefit that the users will experience is the feature that allows you to post messages to the group that get distributed to the group through e-mail. This is super handy when it comes to making plans. Feel free to add whatever you'd like. Hopefully this will be a good start in getting parents, kids and some of us parenting big kids out for some great bonding adventures with our families. Go here to sign up: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/coloradoclimberswithkiddos

I encourage you to invite any parents you know who enjoy the great outdoors.

This thread is great -- I just love seeing all you climbing parents getting together and making this happen.

My wife and I are expecting in mid-July, and just wondering (among many many other things) when/if/how climbing is going to fit in and be something we can keep doing with kids.

Looking forward to joining you somewhere down the road.

Jeff, my wife and I are expecting the beginning of July. We should keep in touch since we have a mutual interest and our kids will be the same age. My wife climbs as well, hope everything goes well with you guys and we'll have to hook up sometime.

David