Wanna Be Wall
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Access Issue: Seasonal Raptor Closures/CDOT Road Work
Details
Please be aware of the annual raptor seasonal closures!
Raptor Closures Effective February 1-July 31 Visit:
jeffco.us/open-space/news/2… Tunnel 1 closure
For more details visit:
jeffco.us/open-space/alerts… The two areas Jefferson County Open Space intends to close in Clear Creek Canyon, shown on the attached maps, encompass the active eagle nests. If the Clear Creek eagles continue to nest in the active nests, these areas will remain closed from February 1 through July 31. If the eagles choose different nesting sites, the closures will be adjusted accordingly to protect those eagles during their breeding season. Currently, rock climbing areas that fall inside of the seasonal raptor closures include:
Blonde Formation
Bumbling Stock
Evil Area
Ghost Crag
Highlander
Skinny Legs
Stumbling Block
Tetanus Garden
Fault Caves
June 7, 2021 - TBD: Highway 6 is currently doing full road closures from Sunday night to Friday morning every week. The closure is from the junction of Highway 119 and Highway 6 to the junction of Highway 40 and Highway 6 (mile post ~260 to ~257). Vehicles that remain in the closure will be towed at owners expense.
Sundays: 7PM-4AM
Monday-Thursday: 4PM-4AM
Description
This description was excerpted from a comment under
Irok and credit was assigned to the original poster. To help with organization of the database, this comment was essentially moved into a crag description.
Further west of
Punk Rock, near the river, is a small quartzite wall, Wanna Be Wall with 2 bolted routes, a 10b and a 11a route which share the same anchors. They are unnamed warm up routes.
This crag gets good sun until early afternoon.
Getting There
The best approach to this area is along the base of
River Wall (located just east of Tunnel 2), which can be walked (water shoes can be useful) anytime after spring runoff. Irok is a bit of a walk up the hill. This approach was engineered before the cable existed by sliding blocks over the ice in the winter of 2000. Using this approach, the first area you get to is
Punk Rock. This crag lies to the west, near the river. It is actually just downstream from Mission Wall and directly below Irok.
Routes
A. Don't Wannabe Left Out, 9+, 1p, 50', bolts.
B. WannaBe Left or One, 10-, 1p, 50', bolts.
CB. WanneBe Right or Two, 10+, 1p, 50', bolts.
D. Wannabe Protected (temporary name), 8 PG-13, 1p, 50', gear or TR.
E. Wannabe Bolter, 8+, 1p, 50', bolts.
F. Drama Free, 6, 1p, 60', bolts.
Routes from Left to Right
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The best approach to this area is along the base of River Wall, which can be walked anytime after spring run off. I engineered this approach before the cable existed by sliding blocks over the ice in the winter of 2000. Using this approach, the first area you get to is Punk Rock.... Further west, near the river, is a small quartzite wall, Wanna Be Wall named after myself, of course, where I bolted a 10b and a 11a route which share the same anchors. They are unnamed warm up routes.
Have fun and enjoy this climbing area away from the noise of the road! Sep 18, 2006