Continue with onX Maps
Continue with Facebook
Routes in The Monkey Skull
|
Amy, Good Gorilla T 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b |
|
Casual Corner T 5.8+ 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c |
|
|
Fever Dance T 5.10c/d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b |
|
|
Fringe Dweller T,S,TR 5.10b/c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b |
|
|
Hollow Be Thy Name T,S 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b |
|
|
Looking for Trouble T 5.9- 5c 17 VI 16 HVS 4c |
|
|
Monkey Trial T,S 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b |
|
|
Ripple S 5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c |
|
|
Skull and Bones S 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b |
|
|
Summit Block T,S 5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b R |
|
|
Sunshine Dihedral T 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b |
|
|
Upside The Cranium S 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b |
| Unsorted Routes: | |
Order Wrong?
Sort Routes
| Type: | Trad, 2 pitches |
| FA: | unknown |
| Page Views: | 827 total · 9/month |
| Shared By: | George Bracksieck on Dec 6, 2016 |
| Admins: | Leo Paik, John McNamee, Frances Fierst, Monty, Monomaniac, Tyler KC |
Your To-Do List:
Add To-Do ·
Your Star Rating:
Use onX Backcountry to explore the terrain in 3D, view recent satellite imagery, and more. Now available in onX Backcountry Mobile apps! For more information see this post.
Access Issue: MM 23-29.5 - now ended daily CO 7 highway closure/delays
Details
Per Kai Bouwman: the daily CO 7 highway closure/delay access issue is no longer a problem according to CDOT the construction finished as of Nov. 11, 2022.
From CDOT: Colorado Highway 7 is closed daily from MP 23-29.5. Motorists can only travel through the area between 6-8 am and 4-7 pm. During these timeframes, pilot cars will lead alternating one-way travel. Drivers should plan for delays, and this schedule will remain in place through Memorial Day 2022.
During the closure, motorists need to take US 36 to CO 7.
codot.gov/projects/co7-lyon…
From CDOT: Colorado Highway 7 is closed daily from MP 23-29.5. Motorists can only travel through the area between 6-8 am and 4-7 pm. During these timeframes, pilot cars will lead alternating one-way travel. Drivers should plan for delays, and this schedule will remain in place through Memorial Day 2022.
During the closure, motorists need to take US 36 to CO 7.
codot.gov/projects/co7-lyon…
Description
On Nov. 2, Manny Rangel and I were looking for sun to please his Arizona sensibilities. This would be his first time in the SSV, so I suggested the most popular rock there. By the time we could hike up to Monkey Skull, the right side would be in the sun. No one else was around.
Each of us has enjoyed many decades of exploring unpublished terrain. At least 50 feet to the right of Fever Dance, past a jumble of unappealing blocks and behind a tree, we found a short, left-leaning, unpublished hand crack that leads to the right end of an unpublished overhang that caps a short right-facing, unpublished dihedral. My 5.6 lead continued upward, weaving around blocks and reaching a big ledge at about 60-70 feet.
Behind a flat boulder, a clean-cut, 90-degree unpublished dihedral is capped at 15 feet by a horizontal ceiling. Manny led this, finding a horizontal squeeze chimney that was hard to enter and exit (crux, 5.9). He threw up his right foot to enter the slot; I threw up my left, then inched outward until my head, then shoulders, then torso was protruding. Just as I was about to fall out, head-first, I twisted enough to reach a finger lock. Easy climbing continued up to the big ledge/slope that could be descended to the right, to return to the ground. I wish that I had brought my smartphone, so that I could take pics.
We hiked/scrambled up and left, with the intention of following what is now known as "Alvino's Variation" to the top. I had led AV in 1981, after climbing what is now known as "Sunshine Dihedral." Finding recently installed bolts next to AV, we climbed that route (Ripple), instead.
Each of us has enjoyed many decades of exploring unpublished terrain. At least 50 feet to the right of Fever Dance, past a jumble of unappealing blocks and behind a tree, we found a short, left-leaning, unpublished hand crack that leads to the right end of an unpublished overhang that caps a short right-facing, unpublished dihedral. My 5.6 lead continued upward, weaving around blocks and reaching a big ledge at about 60-70 feet.
Behind a flat boulder, a clean-cut, 90-degree unpublished dihedral is capped at 15 feet by a horizontal ceiling. Manny led this, finding a horizontal squeeze chimney that was hard to enter and exit (crux, 5.9). He threw up his right foot to enter the slot; I threw up my left, then inched outward until my head, then shoulders, then torso was protruding. Just as I was about to fall out, head-first, I twisted enough to reach a finger lock. Easy climbing continued up to the big ledge/slope that could be descended to the right, to return to the ground. I wish that I had brought my smartphone, so that I could take pics.
We hiked/scrambled up and left, with the intention of following what is now known as "Alvino's Variation" to the top. I had led AV in 1981, after climbing what is now known as "Sunshine Dihedral." Finding recently installed bolts next to AV, we climbed that route (Ripple), instead.
0 Comments