The Wind Tower Rock Climbing

This popular rock can be divided in character into its south and southwest face. The Southwest face has some of the most frequently climbed routes in Eldorado Canyon and is probably the best area in Eldorado Canyon for those seeking lower end difficulty climbing. The rock is stellar for the first two pitches of climbs on this face. Above this the rock has seen less traffic and still has loose rock for the unsuspecting climber. On its South face, you will find fewer companions, since its vertical face and spartan protection options will deter all but the most ardent suitors.

Once, the summit provided an anchor point for the cable upon which crossed Ivy Baldwin on many death-defying crossings of the canyon. The cable was taken down in 1974. Today, the cable remains testament to a disappearing breed of adventurer.

These are some of the earliest stomping grounds for Colorado legends like Layton Kor, Dick Bird, Dallas Jackson, Cleve McCarty, Larry Dalke, Pat Ament, Jeff Lowe, Jim Erickson, Steve Wunsch, Kevin Donald, Charlie Fowler, Duncan Ferguson, Kyle Copeland, Dan Hare, Mike Brooks, Richard Rossiter, and others.

Ultra-classics include: Calypso, 5.6; Wind Ridge, 5.6; the slippery Tagger, 5.10c; Metamorphosis, 5.9+ s; King's X, 5.11a s; and Rainbow Wall, 5.13a.

The low part of this wall does include some moderately popular bouldering and traversing.

Note, if anyone has particularly good base digital photos for rendering a topo for this page, please let me know.

Per Josh: heads up that material (including large rocks) is coming out of the cave under the giant flake at the base of Wind Tower this spring, and it threatens the usual staging area at the base of West Overhang, Recon, The Bomb, and the other right-side routes. If you are standing at the end of the trail or on the ledge at the base of the routes themselves, you're probably safe, but the shallow gully in between (directly downhill of the cave beneath the giant flake) is where many people sit while waiting to climb, stage their gear, etc., and that area was being rained on all afternoon today, starting with a microwave-sized block-- perhaps the one that was holding in all the soil and smaller rocks that are now trickling out.