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What's your 'comfort climb'?
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Everybody's got those routes/boulders that they keep coming back to. The boulder problem in your home area you've used as a warm up for years, the route you use as a benchmark at the start of the season, the long mellow multipitch you take your friends up...whatever the case may be. What's that route for you? My comfort climbs: - Madame G's in the gunks was my favorite warm up in the world when I lived in NYC - The Nautilus Traverse in Morrison is my lunch break go-to and I've probably climbed it 60x at this point - The Graveyard in So Ill is my favorite little outdoor bouldering gym - I climb the same 5 problems (Skeleton, Formaldehyde, Broken, Leatherface, and RIP) every time I visit my family in STL - Bawl and Chain at Hueco is the perfect little head and fingers warm-up, and it sits right at the top of the chains on North Mountain. I'll climb that first thing of the day every time I'm there. |
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Snake dike. I love this route! I have been to the valley 5 times and every time I climb it. |
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Monkey Paws at Donner P1 of C.S. Concerto to After Six in the valley The Rostrum Haystack at Lovers Leap |
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Ed's Crack at the Voo. Short approach, cruiser hands, and a little offwidth action that's hard to get tired of. I could sit at the top all day and just enjoy the view, especially in the Fall with the aspens turning. Mmm mmm good! |
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By way of a riddle: - While easy, the route is no cruise. However, it has a good view of one. - There's a quality three-pitch finish whose first forty feet is a good reason to own a Green Ghost. If you're board after the main climb, you can check 'er out. - While the FA was hard-core (sic), this is the most featherbagged route he ever established. - Despite that, I got benighted on this route in 2012. - You rappel 475' but only have to pull your rope once. |
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Superslab in Eldo, just the perfect little adventure to me, always has been. Killer topic. |
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Reefer Madness at Wall of the 90s in CCC. My goto warmup for the 12s there.
Matt, I never knew that's where So Ill (the climbing gear company) got their name from until I read your post. I was reading it and I was like "what, So Ill has their own branded crag?" |
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I don’t think I’ve been to the gallery once without getting on brief history of climb, it really is that good |
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Made in the Shade at Canal Zone in Clear Creek Canyon – it's fun, long, and chill, and I've done it at least 25 times. |
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Rewritten, Wind Ridge, & Bastille Crack in Eldo |
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I've got 2, both at Seneca. Lichen or Leave It Gunsight to South Peak- If I ever get tired of doing this route, it's time for me to hang up my climbing shoes. |
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Waves-in the Rushmore area of South Dakota https://www.mountainproject.com/v/105714728 This was my first multi-pitch route. A guide took me up this the first day I ever went climbing back in 1994. I have taken several friends up this same climb many times. |
F r i t zwrote: Maiden Voyage? |
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Playin Hooky with the Furlough Day start. Great way to climb around the crowds on a busy day. |
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My wife compares it to going to her favorite yoga class that's she's been to a million times. Great four pitch stretch. Just moving over beautiful stone. https://www.mountainproject.com/route/120790741/heads-high |
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Royal Arches, Nutcracker, and Snake Dike in Yosemite. I never get tired of them. |
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Cat Crack in Squamish. Very good route for new trad leaders; you can plug gear anywhere on the way up. |
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Princely Ambitions at index. It's just too good! |
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Left Torpedo Tube It’s like a warm hug |
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Multipitch: Super Slide (Yos) and White Maidens (Tah) Warmup: Granny Goose (Jtree) Benchmark: Hobbit Roof and Crime of the Century (Jtree) |
Aaron Kolbwrote: I'm thinking Maiden Voyage and King Me? |
