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Smelter Gulch Climbing

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Routes in Smelter Gulch

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	Blasted T 5.8- 5b 16 VI- 14 VS 4c PG13
	Calcite S 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b
	Dirt Crack T C1
	Dynamite S 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	Quarry Route T 5.4 4a 12 IV 10 VD 3c
	Shattered S 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b
	Smelter Dihedral V1+ 5 PG13
	T.N.T T 5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b

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Elevation:	6,695 ft	2,041 m
GPS:	37.25538, -107.88289 Google Map · Climbing Area Map
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Description

Smelter Gulch, now a defunct quarry, has short routes up friable/fractured blast holes/flakes, as well as a couple of crack climbs. Most of these routes, while dirty with hollow rock, also have clean sections.

Getting There

From the Smelter Trailhead, contour into the gulch and cliffs for 8 minutes.

Per Samson Drake: once you park in the first dirt lot and go down the trail, you get to the bottom (on a big flat rock). The trail up from there looks like a small creek the whole way up.