Rogers Canyon has seen a lot of recent devolpment and bolting. There are now many fun sport climbs. The rock is limestone, some of which is very good and is some that is sharp. Rogers is mostly on BLM land, a few climbs are on a local livestock companies land, but traditionally they have been kind to local outdoor user groups. Please respect their property and tread lightly. When top roping please run the rope through your own biners to save wear on the anchors. (Description taken from rockclimbing.com)
Theres also a lot of opportunities for bouldering here!
Getting There
Take 9th Street north out of Laramie about 10 minutes. When the canyon walls rise up, you're in Rogers Canyon. For climbing in the lower canyon, please park in the large rock-lined pull out on the left side of the road (as you go up canyon) just opposite the dark side (big blue wall on your right). There have been a few near misses with cars parked along the narrow road. (description from rockclimbing.com)
Those descriptions from rc.com were originally posted by Josh Helke and myself. Just to avoid plagiarism issues (such as they are).
There is filing happening in the canyon, but this is done to avoid a circular problem. The rock is incredibly sharp. It needs loads more traffic before the holds become even somewhat smoothed so you don't lose your finger tips after a few burns. However, it is so sharp (and Vedauwoo so close) that it could take decades for enough climbers to travel the routes that this will happen naturally. To put it simply, the rock will not wear down fast enough to make filing unnecessary. Holds are not being chipped or improved or anything of the sort. The burrs and excessive spikes are being removed, but no worse.
i have bolted some routes in rogers canyon and filin is absolutely unnessisary. i also have seen filing go to the point where holds are dramatically changed to where you might as well call it chipping. at the very least do not file other poeples routes. only your own if you feel this way.
as far as i can tell this is not actually dolomite but true limestone. i could be wrong. the area being tiny is probubly more so why traffic is going to be low.
Rogers Canyon
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