where is the best tufa climbing in the Front range of Colorado? Typically found on limestone rock, or in Asia, I am totally missing the steep, athletic, and occasionally stemming or liebacking movement that you get from massive cylindrical drippings... I also recently just read the R & I photo issue and was reminiscing of all that good, chunky rock out of the U.S.
Tony Nguyen wrote: where is the best tufa climbing in the Front range of Colorado? Typically found on limestone rock, or in Asia, I am totally missing the steep, athletic, and occasionally stemming or liebacking movement that you get from massive cylindrical drippings... I also recently just read the R & I photo issue and was reminiscing of all that good, chunky rock out of the U.S.
Only 1 route comes to mind, the shaft in the flatirons. It's kind of a tufa....after that the closest real candidate that I know would be the vesper @ the grail @ the Arizona strip. Flippin' sweet route/area.
Several in the Flatties. The Shaft, Milk Bone, I am the Walrus. I’m sure there are more. Thundermuscle has some great pinching on “tufa like” features as well. I’m sure Choose Life also does.
just an FYI - tufa is a geological term referring to a specific type of calcium carbonate precipitate - there is none of this in the flatirons. Climbing features that are similar, sure