The Cowlick Crag is a nice blob of rock that can be found directly across the trail from Dickies Cliff.
The crag features morning sun and a lot of easily accessible top-ropes. Some of the rock quality is questionable, but the routes on the more friable terrain tend to be top-ropes.
Getting There
Park in the Red Springs Parking Lot. Take the trail up out of the lot below Cannibal Crag, below Physical Graffiti, towards the notch. You will find the Cowlick Crag on the right hand side, just before you start to go up hill.
Top-roped the #1 and #2 unnamed TR climbs on Cowlick Crag last week (Dec. 2007). We hadn't climbed in 14 yrs., so were looking for something easy, fun, and safe. We found these routes to be very enjoyable, as they were the least vertical of the climbs we did at Red Rocks, and the top-rope set-up was pretty straight forward.
There was a single bolt on top of the rock that allowed some protection for access to the 2-bolt anchors on the cliff face. The climbs on this side of Cowlick Crag are short, and the rock is a bit friable, but the easy top-rope set-up and low angled rock provided a high fun factor. Wish there were more climbs like this in Red Rocks.
Cowlick Crag
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