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BETA PHOTO: Schooldaze kind of goes right up the center.
Description "Turret Dome is the largest rock in Elevenmile and offers an excellent selection of moderate slab routes. The south face has routes up to three pitches long with runouts in some places. The west face is shorter and offers steeper routes." Bob D'Antonio (taken from the Elevenmile Canyon guide book) This says it all. Outstanding multi-pitch rock with fewer crouds on it.
Getting There Turret Dome is located 4.3 miles up the canyon on the right. Park at Elevenmile picnic area, cross the bridge and head upstream. You can't miss it. For south and west face routes, approach high over a short slab to avoid a dead end into the creek. This will take you directly into the start of Schooldaze. From the summit, work north and downclimb to a saddle. Descend east to the picnic area.
The ClassicsMountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Turret Dome:
Jaws 5.5 Trad, 4 pitches, 330 feet
Featured Route For Turret Dome
Guide's Route 5.6 CO : South Platte : ... : Turret Dome
From the base of Turret Dome, 0.25 miles west of the picnic area, head along the river and then scramble up to the base of this climb about another 0.25 miles. It starts in a slight ravine with a large fallen tree on the rocks southwest face well west of Schooldaze's giant arch formation. On its right are four unnamed sport routes (5.8ish) that are fun if you are waiting for the route to clear.Pitch 1: Climbs a 5.6 hand and finger crack past several rock horns up and over a slight lip protecte... [more] Browse More Classics in CO
BETA PHOTO: Upper Arch area. Continue past Guide's Route, Thro...
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BETA PHOTO: Turret Dome.
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Brenda tops out on Turret Dome with the Platte Riv...
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Brenda raps off the big pine tree on the back of t...
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Hangin' in a bathtub waiting to do the last pitch ...
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By Sean O'Dell
Mar 6, 2002
| "Decend east into picnic area" doesn't quite do justice to the decent from the summit. The downclimb off the back of this rock is kind of a pain (5.4-ish in spots), so when doing a route that summits Turret Dome (such as the Guide's Route), make sure to keep the ol' climbing shoes on for the downclimb and allow appropriate extra time. |
By Anonymous Coward
May 28, 2002
| Does anybody know anything about the bolted lines on Turret Dome? They looked like they were put up fairly recently. Any info. would be much appreciated. |
By Larry Shaw
Jul 28, 2005
| They are in the database as [Unknown 1, Unknown 2,] and [Sloppy Shoes]. |
By Stich
From: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Sep 11, 2006
| If the descent is wet, like it was for us today, you can go to a large tree on the North side of the dome (on your right facing Turret from the road). A 60 meter rope will barely get you all the way down past two ledges. The second ledge has a small tree to rap off if all you have is a 50 meter or you just want to be sure. If you do the full rap, angle the rope to the left to hit a mossy ledge. Going straight down won't work. |
By Rich F.
From: Colorado Springs, CO
Sep 25, 2010
| Descent Info: As of Sept 2010, there were two good slings on the large pine tree at the back and right side of the dome summit. I added a rappel ring to save wear and tear on the slings. It's a fun, easy rappel down two ledges. Much more enjoyable for me than downclimbing. It gets you down to where it's just an easy hike down the saddle. I hope everyone will leave the slings & rap ring in place for future climbers to descend on. Thanks! |
By Chip Loomis
Aug 15, 2011
| I wanted to add a little clarity about the sport routes along the West Face of Turret Dome. However, there is a chance that this information may just muddy the water since it is only information that I gleamed from reading the other posts. After climbing there this weekend, we found that the directions to some of the older sport routes did not match since newer sport routes have been added. We found a total of 9 sport routes along the West Face and I will list them from Left to Right even though you will likely reach them the opposite way, right to left (sorry).
From L to R
1. Most Toppest: Farthest left and toppest, passed Upper Arch.
The next three routes are under the Upper Arch.
2. Junior Juiles Doinks a Digit.
3. Escondido.
4. Inner Space Arch.
The next routes are below 'The Tunnel', a couple hundred feet below Upper Arch. Specifically there are two that start on the same face just below Guide's Route.
5. Velvet Habel: I think, regardless it is a 50 foot 5.7 with 5-6 bolts. About 20 feet below the start of Guide's Route.
6. Unknown 5.7: Another short route with 5-6 bolts 20 feet below Velvet Habel.
The next three are very close to each other.
7. The Mexicanist.
8. Car Stud.
9. Sloppy Shoes: mixed.
A couple hundred feet below these routes are Schooldaze and Jaws. |
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