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Mar 9, 2026 Gunks > Sky Top Half Assid 5.10+ ● Working on this route some time in the 70s, one of us was trying to get gear at the crux overhang. Jim McCa… View Comment
Jan 24, 2026 Boulder > Eldorado Canyon SP > Bastille > Bastille - W Face West Face 5.11a ● The 1970 High Over Boulder calls this 5.9 and mentions the FFA by Behrens and Erickson. Did they avoid the… View Comment
Nov 18, 2024 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Blob Rock Area > Blob Rock > Main Wall David Schwimmer 5.9 ● Assuming we did this correctly (the first route having bolts left of Shimmer), the crux is a high step over… View Comment
Jul 15, 2024 Alpine Rock > RMNP - Rock > Long's Peak > Diamond Casual Route 5.10a ● D1-Grand Traverse, 5.9 IV, 8/11/78 IR, PR. Helicopter Crash. I vaguely remember a helicopter crashing t… View Comment
Jul 15, 2024 Alpine Rock > RMNP - Rock > Long's Peak > Diamond Casual Route 5.10a ● D1-Grand Traverse 5.9 IV 8/11/78 IR, PR Route Details Gear: Double rope, sit harness [note the “sit har… View Comment
Jul 15, 2024 Alpine Rock > RMNP - Rock > Long's Peak > Diamond Casual Route 5.10a ● D1-Grand Traverse 5.9 IV 8/11/78 IR, PR. Timeline: (Don Lauber [friend] came along to the bivvy and w… View Comment
Jul 15, 2024 Alpine Rock > RMNP - Rock > Long's Peak > Diamond Casual Route 5.10a ● D1-Grand Traverse, 5.9 IV, 8/11/78 IR, PR. My brother Paul and I did an early ascent of the Casual Route… View Comment
Jul 13, 2024 Custer SP > Sylvan Lake > Outlets > Inner Outlet Rockin' Harder 5.10+ ● I’m reminiscing over my 1983 Touch the Sky guide and see that I did this route on 9/12/93 with Paul Duval,… View Comment
Apr 11, 2024 Grand Teton NP > Mt Moran South Buttress Right, Mt. Moran 5.11 ● Here’s a follow-up to my historical post above from an email to me from Rich Perch a few years ago: Hey… View Comment
Apr 2, 2024 Yosemite NP > … 1 > B. El Capitan > 1. Base Routes > Southwest Base > Slack to W Buttress Sacherer Cracker 5.10a ● I did this in 95. My notes say, “scary squeeze—escape left to bigger chimney”. I definitely did not have bi… View Comment
Mar 31, 2024 Wind River Range > Cirque of the T… > Wolfs Head South Face-Left 5.8 ● I think I was on the FFA of this with Buck Tilley. I have notes saying that I climbed “S. Face Beckey Route… View Comment
Mar 31, 2024 Wind River Range > Deep Lake Area > Lost Temple Spire NW Corner 5.11a PG13 ● I have notes from 8/12/77 for what I think is this route. I climbed it with Steve Amter. We thought it was… View Comment
Mar 28, 2024 Grand Teton NP > Mt Moran South Buttress Right, Mt. Moran 5.11 ● Rich Perch and I climbed this on 7/12/74. At the time there was a 5.9 variation that went left around the a… View Comment
Mar 28, 2024 Grand Teton NP > Mt Moran No Escape Buttress, West Arete 5.10a ● I was looking through my ancient Tetons guide (Lee Ortenburger, 1965) and saw that I had written in that I’… View Comment
Mar 28, 2024 Grand Teton NP > Disappointment Peak Open Book 5.9 ● I did this in August 1977 with Ron Matous. According to the info on this page, the FFA was in 77, so maybe… View Comment
Mar 28, 2024 Grand Teton NP > Disappointment Peak Chouinard-Frost Chimney 5.9 ● Rich Perch and I climbed this in August 1977 doing what we thought was the first free ascent based on info… View Comment
Nov 30, 2023 Gunks > Near Trapps > b. Workout Wall > Transcontinental Nailway (5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b) Notice the gaiters, blown out armpit, RR's, dangling hammer with rack of pins above, flip-flop stoppers. ● The photo is from 1972, I think. I started climbing at the Gunks in February 1971 with my friend Steve Reif… View Comment
Sep 28, 2023 Estes Park Valley > Big Thompson Ca… > Combat Rock Monkey Lust 5.9 ● 22 years after this climb was added the first comment was added. Not very popular? Near the top, we avoi… View Comment
Aug 10, 2023 Estes Park Valley > CO Hwy 7 & Trib… > Crags > Rib Rock > Rib Rock South/W Face Date Night 5.8+ ● OK route. The start is a bit strange with a big low angle bit after the first couple of bolts. After that,… View Comment
Aug 10, 2023 Estes Park Valley > CO Hwy 7 & Trib… > Crags > Sharksfin North Face 5.8 ● There are now two very shiny stainless bolts and rings just short of the top of this route. Those bolts are… View Comment
Oct 27, 2022 Canon City > Shelf Rd > Bank > Quarry Wall at the Bank Jiggly Bits & Muffin Tops 5.10a ● 6 not 5 bolts. Chains, no Mussey hooks. Strenuous 8 or so at bottom. The crux is at the top moving left. Ea… View Comment
Jul 5, 2022 Ft Collins > Poudre Canyon > Crystal Wall > N Face Just Get Outside 5.10 ● Good climb, but I’m a little confused by the description. I climbed the second line left of the tree follow… View Comment
Jun 28, 2022 Southwest Region > Helena Area > Mt Helena > Kitchen Wall Get it while it's hot! 5.10b ● I self-belayed this last week. It seemed pretty easy, but the rock was pretty bad in places, especially on… View Comment
Jun 28, 2022 Southwest Region > Helena Area > Mt Helena > Whit's Wall Whit's Wobbler 5.10b ● I self-belayed this last week. Moderate climbing diagonals right on a white face past a few big pockets. Cr… View Comment
Jun 28, 2022 Southwest Region > Helena Area > Mt Helena > Vigilante Wall Vigilante 5.10b ● I self-belayed this last week. Wild but straightforward and secure with big holds: jugs, laybacks, finger l… View Comment
Jun 18, 2022 Ft Collins > Poudre Canyon > Narrows > Sheep Mountain > Main Area - Right Side Even the Sheep Are Bored 5.9 ● There’s a bolted variation near the top that goes up the face left of the crux arete. View Comment
Jun 18, 2022 Estes Park Valley > CO Hwy 7 & Trib… > Crags > Woodstone, Half… > Half & Half Crag Rouge Element 5.10 R ● After leading, I lowered from the rings to the anchor on Direct Hit. Partner Luke TR’d and lowered to that… View Comment
May 30, 2022 Ft Collins > Poudre Canyon > Narrows > Sheep Mountain > Main Wall - Center Baadlands 5.10a ● The crux is at the first bolt - much easier after that but fun. Near the top where various routes converge… View Comment
Apr 1, 2022 Boulder > Eldorado Canyon SP > Redgarden Wall > Redgarden - Tow… > Rosy Crucifixion (5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b PG13) Unknown climber following P1 after unclipping the first bolt. The leader trailed a rope which is used to good effect protecting the second from taking a big swing. ● Yes, you need to link P1 and P2. What we did on that ascent was use a 70m doubled with the leader tied in o… View Comment
Aug 21, 2021 Ft Collins > Poudre Canyon > Narrows > Sheep Mountain > Main Wall - Left Side Gaga at the Go-Go 5.11b ● This seems to now have an independent start. Bolts lead directly up to the hand crack. View Comment
Aug 31, 2018 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Blob Rock Area > E Blob > Upper E Face The Young and the Rackless 5.9 ● Way back I self-belayed this with a 70m rope combining all pitches as one but coming short of the top ancho… View Comment
Aug 19, 2015 Gunks > Near Trapps > a. Beginning of… > Fat City Direct (5.10d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b PG13) 1981. The Fat City Direct crux en route to the first continuous ascent of Requiem via the Fat City Direct variation. Fat City Direct climbs straight up to where I am in the photo. Requiem climbs a wild feet dangling hand crack over a bright orange roof just out of the photo to the right. The true Requiem crux, originally aided, first went free at 12 something, and then a hold broke (but maybe still free). The large right facing corner at the left of the photo is Gelsa, 5.4. ● The "red thing" is the tails of a 2" tubular red webbing swami belt tied with a water knot, very common at… View Comment
Jun 19, 2015 Ivan Rezucha > Yosemite Early morning in Camp 4 in 1980. Stiff after getting out of bed? Either that or something else. Wearing my old and much loved Sierra Designs 60/40 and down sweater. The down sweater outlasted the 60/40. In my hands are the 71 Roper Yosemite guide and a photocopy of the first Meyers and/or Reid Yosemite topos guide. ● Hi Uwe! The 60/40 was "stolen" by Bob Richardson many years ago. The Sierra Designs down "sweater" event… View Comment
May 21, 2015 Lake Tahoe > … > Bowman/Emeralds > Emeralds > Benches > Negativity Slabs Cast Off 5.8 ● There are no rings on the anchor bolts. The last person needs to lead easy rock up and left onto the big le… View Comment
May 21, 2015 Lake Tahoe > … > Bowman/Emeralds > Emeralds > Benches > Negativity Slabs Cast In Stone 5.8 ● This is on Negativity Slab and should be moved to that area. View Comment
May 14, 2014 Gunks > Trapps > d. Strictly - The Cei… Revenge of the Relics 5.10a PG13 ● The second pitch is the climb. The described first pitch is just the approach. The second pitch starts from… View Comment

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