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Jun 22, 2026 Boulder > Eldorado Canyon SP > Redgarden Wall > Redgarden - S Buttress Sidetrack with Direct Start 5.8+ PG13 ● Stunning pitch! Thanks, Brad :) View Comment
Apr 30, 2026 Southeast Utah > San Juan County > Island In The Sky > Washer Woman In Search Of Suds 5.10+ ● Ellen S - yes, pulled this off once about 20 years ago with a couple of fixed lines as you said. The jug ou… View Comment
Apr 7, 2025 Boulder > Eldorado Canyon SP > Redgarden Wall > Redgarden - Tow… > Yellow Spur (5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a) Henry Barber, 1973. ● Trainspotter here - it’s the first pitch of West Buttress on the Bastille, but the slide must have been sca… View Comment
Mar 25, 2024 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Black Widow Slab The limited edition 1997 Black Widow Ice Park. ● Mike Bearzi and Eric Winkleman are the climbers on this 2 pitch route. Sadly the irrigation system for this… View Comment
Oct 17, 2023 S Platte > Rampart Range Rd > Jackson Creek > Split Dome aka Split… Change Your Shorts, Change Your Life 5.9+ PG13 ● Great Tom Waits tune, too. View Comment
Nov 23, 2020 Denver Metropolitan A… Central Park Bouldering Area ● These amazing, lifelike boulders are a godsend for the east side Denver. The Monolith team (Ian Powell/Ty F… View Comment
Nov 3, 2020 Boulder > Eldorado Canyon SP > W Ridge > W Ridge - part B - Lo… Rock For Climbing Routes To 5.10d ● I think Dave Holliday will have to edit the grade as he’s the submitter. View Comment
Dec 23, 2019 Boulder > Eldorado Canyon SP > Rincon > Rincon - Center Route… Cosmic Wave 5.12a ● Thanks for the feedback, Aaron. Sorry you couldn’t find the bolts through the reef - the painted bolts were… View Comment
Jun 21, 2019 S Platte > Staunton SP > Staunton Rocks > Meadow Dome > Labyrinth Uncontrived Mayhem 5.10d ● A deceptive and excellent route. View Comment
Sep 21, 2018 Boulder > Eldorado Canyon SP > Peanuts Walls > Lower Peanuts Criller 5.11c/d ● Brilliant new pitch, one of the best up there. The top half is continuously devious and exposed. View Comment
Feb 23, 2014 Boulder The top-out isn't that sketchy anymore. ● I dunno .... the post-flood spotter looks way sketchy. View Comment
Feb 20, 2014 Boulder > Boulder Canyon Climbing was a little different in BC in the not so distant past. In fact, really, really different! ● Looks a bit like Silent Running but considering the lack of gear, I'm going for a Hike with Ludwig Dude. View Comment
Dec 30, 2013 Southeast Utah > Grand County > Salt Valley > Dickfour Original Route 5.9+ A2+ ● Matt, I think its a style of British cuisine, commonly served at lunchtime. View Comment
Oct 16, 2013 Golden Clear Creek Canyon ● Uniquer. View Comment
Aug 16, 2013 Golden > Golden Gate Canyon SP Dude's Throne ● Lame question: do you get cell phone service up here? Thanks Andy View Comment
Apr 19, 2013 Boulder > Eldorado Canyon SP > Redgarden Wall > Redgarden - Tow… > Dirty Deed (5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b) Last pitch of Dirty Deed. Spring, 1967. ● Another random observation: it looks like the trees were a lot thinner on the ground back in the day (over… View Comment
Sep 23, 2012 Alpine Rock > RMNP - Rock > Gable The Rasp 5.10d R ● Previously submitted under TROTGB: I think it's essentially the same route. The starting groove and crux… View Comment
Sep 21, 2012 Alpine Rock > RMNP - Rock > Gable The Rasp 5.10d R ● Previously submitted under TROTGB: I think we may have beaten you to it! mountainproject.com/v/the-r&h… View Comment
Apr 5, 2012 Boulder > Flatirons > South > Seal Rock > N Side Sea of Joy 5.13a ● I would have thought the whole thing is pretty clean - unlike its neighbor Archeopteryx which has some veg… View Comment
Mar 22, 2011 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Land That Time… > Ankar Gate (5.11- 6c 22 VIII- 22 E3 5c) Found these on the rap. Pre bolts or short ropes? SG (?) stamped into the oval. Fell out when I touched them. ● Steve Grossman? View Comment
Jul 8, 2010 Gunnison > Black Canyon of the G… South Rim Routes ● Re: The Black Hole: Don't remember any specific wide belay sizes apart from the first belay. There's an an… View Comment
Jun 19, 2008 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Animal World > Lower Animal World Threshold Of A Dream 5.11d ● Terry Murphy and I toproped and scrubbed this route a couple of years ago but never bolted it cos we couldn… View Comment
Jul 13, 2007 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Boulder Slips My Way 5.9 ● I did Threshold with Crusher a couple of nights ago and ended up following the bolts. Looked at the guidebo… View Comment
Apr 2, 2007 Southeast Utah > Grand County > Arches NP > Dark Angel West Face 5.11 ● The second pitch felt like 11a to me - short crux but hard to read. On the hike out we were stopped by a… View Comment
Jan 25, 2007 Southeast Utah > San Juan County > Island In The Sky > Taylor Canyon Moses ● It was still chopped as of April 2003 and is unlikely to have been re-installed, as it would require dealin… View Comment
Feb 16, 2006 Southeast Utah > Grand County > Fisher Towers > Titan Sundevil Chimney 5.9 A3 ● Ditto the loweball beta for the first pitch. I found the last section of the 3rd pitch to be the hardest to… View Comment
Nov 22, 2005 S Platte > Cathedral Spire… > Sunshine Wall Turkey Foot Crack 5.10a ● Hi Kevin, I remember thinking those blocks were pretty dubious last time I rapped off them. Maybe they wer… View Comment
Jul 26, 2004 Boulder > Flatirons > South > Seal Rock > N Side Sea of Joy 5.13a ● Humble! A good route to escape the heat but not the crowds - every time I've climbed on this wall there… View Comment
Mar 18, 2004 Boulder > Eldorado Canyon SP > W Ridge > W Ridge - part B - Lo… Rock For Climbing Routes To 5.10d ● Sorry about this, but I also did the FA of this back in '98, only to discover some time later that it was t… View Comment
Mar 13, 2003 Boulder > Eldorado Canyon SP > Redgarden Wall > Redgarden - Tower One Mellow Fellow 5.12a ● Plus, if you use double ropes you can utilize an excellent nut placement (#5 I think) in the flake on the l… View Comment
Mar 12, 2003 Estes Park Valley > Lumpy Ridge > Book > Renaissance Wall Renaissance Wall 5.12c ● I got a belay from the ground and made it to the top of the 3rd with a 60m rope (after backcleaning the fir… View Comment
Mar 5, 2003 Boulder > Eldorado Canyon SP > Redgarden Wall > Redgarden - S Buttress High Noon 5.11a ● The broken anchor bolt was replaced and rap rings/links installed during the Celebrate Eldo weekend 2002. T… View Comment
Jan 17, 2003 Boulder > Flatirons > North > Tangen Towers In Focus 5.9 ● Hello, this is Anonymous Coward 140.226.55.118 speaking I apologise for the negative tone of my comment,… View Comment
Oct 21, 2002 Golden > Clear Creek Canyon > New River Wall Sonic Youth 5.13a ● I pulled off a hold at the top crux about a month ago - it was a pretty critical R-hand sidepull (for the s… View Comment
Sep 30, 2002 Boulder > Eldorado Canyon SP > W Ridge > W Ridge - part A - Ve… Wingshot 5.11b ● The blue anchor webbing went in June 2000 - it replaced some nasty chains. I dont know what the best soluti… View Comment
Jul 30, 2002 Alpine Rock > RMNP - Rock > Petit Grepon South Face 5.8 ● I guess your leading Zimbabwean Rusty Baillie did it years ago View Comment

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