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Dec 5, 2025 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Helen's Dome Goose Creek meadow crossing. Photo used with permission from Mike Walley, September 2025. ● Bring river crossing shoes/sandals/flip flops. In the morning, the meadow is often soaking wet with dew and… View Comment
Dec 5, 2025 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Helen's Dome > Knockin' On Helen's Door (5.11- 6c 22 VIII- 22 E3 5c) Goose Creek meadow crossing. Photo used with permission from Mike Walley, 2025. ● Bring river crossing shoes/sandals/flip flops. In the morning, the meadow is often soaking wet with dew an… View Comment
Dec 5, 2025 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Helen's Dome > Knockin' On Helen's Door (5.11- 6c 22 VIII- 22 E3 5c) Sheep Rock approaches. ● Knockin' on Helen's Door has the easiest approach at Sheep Rock. View Comment
Dec 4, 2025 S Platte > Goose Creek/Molly Gul… Upper South Fork of the South Platte River's domes. ● After the Hayman Fire, all the four-wheel drive roads were gated and must now be hiked (double dashes). Th… View Comment
Dec 3, 2025 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Sheep Rock Summit Dome Trad Tour de Platte 5.10a/b PG13 ● Great ideas, Graham! I'm on it. Once finished, please let me know if you see anything funky. I'm a chronic… View Comment
Oct 15, 2025 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Acid Rock Four Eyes 5.9 PG13 ● I plan to fix the shenanigans and flaws on this route. Since Four Eyes requires a lot of gear, we first spe… View Comment
Oct 15, 2025 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock Acid Rock ● Recently, Ed Quesada got the story from Leonard Coyne about the naming of Acid Rock. 1976, when Leonard an… View Comment
Oct 12, 2025 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Helen's Dome Helen Wheels 5.9- ● Graham and Chuck, your comments are greatly appreciated. Thank you! I've been meaning to fix up any of t… View Comment
Sep 7, 2025 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Land That Time Forgot An approximation & upper detail of unknown routes right of Oklahoma Princess, starting location about 200 feet (?) downhill from OKP. The right skyline above is actually left side of Acid Rock to be accurate. The photo was taken from top of Anasazi Arete. ● Chuck, your beta for the incredible arete on Acid Rock is greatly appreciated. We saw two bolts from "High… View Comment
Aug 26, 2025 Golden > Clear Creek Canyon > Wall of the '90s Alone Time with my Banana 5.6 ● Tal, your hard work and hardware contributions are greatly appreciated!!! Also, thank you to all the commen… View Comment
Aug 12, 2025 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Sheep Rock Summit Dome The Hubbel Route 5.7 ● Brian, thank you for changing the route name to: "Hubble Route". Laurent Mellion did all the drilling on… View Comment
Aug 3, 2025 Golden > Clear Creek Canyon > Catslab Gus 5.10b ● I helped Alan Nelson bolt this in the early days of development. The potential for mass wasting scared me… View Comment
Jul 30, 2025 Golden > Clear Creek Canyon > Catslab Unknown 5.6 ● Jeroun VanWolferen, Marsha Trout, and myself added the anchor summer of 2014. Spiritual advisors Richard W… View Comment
Jun 11, 2025 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Helen's Dome Info on Helen's Dome. ● Please see my topo for a corrected Fractured Fairys topo on the Helen Wheels page, a new 5.9- route that ca… View Comment
Jun 6, 2025 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Helen's Dome > Beam Me Up, Scotty (5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a) Beam Me Up, Scotty! Painted with permission from Richard Aschert. ● I've been meaning to apply modern stainless 1/2" hardware on a couple of my old '80s routes at Helen's Dom… View Comment
Jun 3, 2025 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Helen's Dome > Helen Wheels (5.9- 5c 17 VI 16 HVS 4c) Helen Wheels, Ed Quesada at the "Wet Crack Belay". Photo by Richard Aschert, 2025. ● Helen Wheels' fourth pitch climbs directly above Ed. The blue rope is off route, because Richard was invest… View Comment
Jun 3, 2025 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Helen's Dome > Helen Wheels (5.9- 5c 17 VI 16 HVS 4c) Helen Wheels, Ed Quesada rappels pitch six with a 70 meter rope. Photo used with permission from Richard Aschert. ● Look close to see how a 70 meter rope comes up short of pitch five's double rapid-link anchor. The unroped… View Comment
Jun 3, 2025 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Helen's Dome > Beam Me Up, Scotty (5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a) The old belay for Scotty's. Posted with permission from Richard Aschert. ● This is the original Scotty's anchor, no ledge. Instead, on Scotty's second pitch, move left ten feet to th… View Comment
Jun 3, 2025 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Helen's Dome > Beam Me Up, Scotty (5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a) Andy Donson, Beam Me Up Scotty. ● Just recently, I realized that I made a rub-on lettering mistake in my book and labeled this single bolt as… View Comment
May 31, 2025 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock Acid Rock and Baby Helen's painted. With permission from Richard Aschert. ● Helen's Trail is not really a trail. It is a rugged connection from the summit rappel of Helen's Dome acros… View Comment
May 28, 2025 Yosemite NP > Tuolumne Meadows > Lembert Dome > Northwest Face Big Boys Don't Cry 5.10c R ● March, 1975, 10cc released "I'm Not In Love" and the ethereal back-round voices chant: "Big boys don't cry… View Comment
Apr 26, 2025 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Helen's Dome > Gettin' the Groove (5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b) Grant is in front of the first bolt after the one shared with Spree. The mantel move is up and left. The posgear placements to protect the second are hidden above the subtle white streaks below the horizontal that appears 4' right of his right shoulder. . ● Nice beta, George! I used to love this route: until, instead of leading it, I followed it. View Comment
Apr 19, 2025 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Land That Time… > Solarian (5.10+ 6b+ 21 VII+ 20 E3 5b) The original topo. ● Chris Hodge and I hiked up and saw the "...rotten and wet crack system", before the bolt revolt; so not eve… View Comment
Jan 24, 2025 Yosemite NP Mystery dome about twenty miles up the Merced River from Yosemite, maybe a mile past Washburn Lake. Scroll down for more walls along the upper Merced River. ● Adventurers often need proof to help convince partners to go for first ascents. All are welcome to copy an… View Comment
Jan 11, 2025 Los Angeles Basin > Santa Monica Mountains Point Dume ● Accessing Pt Dume from above greatly increases traffic issues and disturbs Donny's ashes. More respectful… View Comment*
Dec 19, 2024 S Platte > Pine Area > Bucksnort Slab Slippery When Wet 5.11 ● Dear TBD, a million thanks for the bolt replacement!! ...and excellent route description. Also, the photos… View Comment
Dec 17, 2024 Yosemite NP > … > Valley N Side > B. El Capitan > 3. Southeast Face > N America Wall (5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c C3) NA Wall, 1974, Notice plumes of water far up and water running down the wall. We bailed. Larry Bruce, Chris Nelson & Jack Roberts. ● We were a big party too! Way more fun on horror show aid walls. Nine days in November with only one storm… View Comment
Dec 14, 2024 S Platte > Pine Area Though unknown to most, there is a old route on this thing. ● That's Dave Bell's 1979 route Psych Dike, 5.9x. It is in the Jason Haas Platte guidebook. Good photo! T… View Comment
Dec 11, 2024 S Platte Platte legend Dave Bell actually on the Platte beneath Big Rock shortly before his death. Noel Childs and Byron Nelson flank him. ● Dave told me that he had ankylosing spondylitis. We met after I figured out Slippery When Wet intersected D… View Comment
Dec 8, 2024 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Helen's Dome > Helen Highwater (5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b PG13) Trout drilling; belayed, spotted, photographed by Baker. ● About 20 minutes for an inch and one half Rawl buttonhead. Tal makes a good point! The trick was to not sta… View Comment
Nov 21, 2024 S Central Utah > Henry Mountains Henrys ● For anyone wanting a taste of the Golden Age, this looks like the place. I'd bring a modern bolt gun and… View Comment
Nov 20, 2024 S Central Utah > Henry Mountains > Horn Dianne Barrow, 1994, Wedding Arete, 1st lead by a mother of two? ● Whoa Benjamin, Dianne is very much a she. That's why I chose the MP button for attractive image. But, you… View Comment
Nov 18, 2024 Alpine Rock > San Juans > Needles Pigeon Peak ● This is a link to a photo by Matthias' on the San Juan page showing a possible new route on Pigeon: mounta… View Comment
Nov 17, 2024 Alpine Rock > San Juans Ruby Lake Buttress of Point 13,515'. ● More information about "Ruby Lake Buttress" of Point 13,515 at: mountainproject.com/photo/1…. View Comment
Nov 17, 2024 Alpine Rock > San Juans The ridge of . . .? ● The "Ruby Lake Buttress" of Point 13,515. Too easy I thought back in 1979. This image really shows how the… View Comment
Nov 17, 2024 Alpine Rock > San Juans A painting by Hal Shelton of Ruby Lake. ● A link to Matthias Holladay's photo "Massive Opportunities...": mountainproject.com/photo/1…. View Comment

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