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Dec 26, 2025 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Gargoyle Wall > A Question Of Faith (5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c R) ??? ● New bolts added! Now this route has gone from an X to an R View Comment
Nov 10, 2025 Southwest Utah > Zion NP > Red Arch Mountain Shune-lite Buttress 5.11+ ● A little history here, Dave Jones told me he had worked on a new line between Rites of Passage and Shune's… View Comment
Nov 4, 2025 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Rodeo Buttress > Roping Chickens (5.10- 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a R) It's groovy babay ● Yes! View Comment
Oct 31, 2025 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Rodeo Buttress > Roping Chickens (5.10- 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a R) The amazing 2nd pitch ● Roping Chickens! Bring lots of tie off slings View Comment
Oct 31, 2025 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Rodeo Buttress Roping Chickens 5.10- R ● Pitch two is one of the most memorable sections of climbing in LCC. Very impressive, bold ascent by Bill an… View Comment
Oct 11, 2025 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Big Cottonwood… > JHCOB Wall Lightning Bad 5.9+ ● Good addition to this area, nice cracks and edges. Still a bit mossy. The mini roof at the start of the pi… View Comment
Nov 12, 2024 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Kermits Wall Beavers Cleaver 5.11b PG13 ● Here's a description of the original 5.10 route by Les Ellison from Wasatch Rock Climbs: "Start: Same as… View Comment
Oct 22, 2024 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Thumb Area S-Matrix 5.10d ● A bolt was added to the section that Alex mentioned. That old flake has weakened over the years. View Comment
Aug 20, 2024 Southwest Utah > Zion NP > Temple of Sinawava > Monkeyfinger (5.12 7b+ 27 VIII+ 26 E6 6b) Terry at a bivy, 2 pitches below the top..."rise and shine" ● Spring of 1979. From the top, we hiked/climbed to the top of Observation Point, running into some deep sno… View Comment
Aug 12, 2024 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Egg Scrambled Eggs 5.6 ● If you didn't see any bolts you were on pitch one of the Lowe Blow. Yes the bolts are off to the right and… View Comment
May 27, 2024 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Westwind Buttress Empty Plate 5.9+ A2- PG13 ● This route is a good introduction to mixed and varied aid climbing. We didn't place any pins larger than a… View Comment
Jan 30, 2024 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Green Adjective Gully Oasis 5.11b R ● The ground up first ascent of this route fearured some very bold leads. The first pitch by Jonathan and th… View Comment
Jan 13, 2024 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Gate Buttress > Beckey's Wall Area Tarzan 5.10a ● Thanks Lenny, for your comments. Do you remember what year you climbed Tarzan? The name "Sweet Jane Variat… View Comment
Oct 26, 2023 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Contact Buttress First Contact 5.11+ PG13 ● Great rock on this very sustained route. Beautiful location too. Proud send for Diego and John. View Comment
Oct 5, 2023 Wasatch Range > … > Little Cottonwo… > Gate Buttress > Beckey's Wall Area > "Elementary Dear Watson" (5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a) Route location. Yellow dots are belays. ● It's also possible to access this climb from Tarzan. You can either traverse off right, as if descending Ta… View Comment
Aug 16, 2023 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Albion Basin > Devil's Castle The Devil Made Me Do It 5.10a ● We found that you can place a .75 camalot on pitches 1 and 3 for better protection. Still needs more clean… View Comment
Jul 7, 2023 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Coalpit Buttress Gladiator 5.12a A0 ● Great addition to the Coalpit buttress. We found that the first rappel from the top barely reached the rap… View Comment
Jun 25, 2023 Wasatch Range > … > Little Cottonwo… > Fin > Upper Fin > License To Poach (5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c PG13) Diego on P2 ● Feeling confident after a questionable hex placement! View Comment
Jun 5, 2023 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Big Cottonwood… > JHCOB Wall Second East Face 5.7 ● This route has been done since the 1960's without the bolted belay anchors....they shouldn't be there. View Comment
Jun 5, 2023 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Fin > Fin Descent Gully Cat Scratch Fever 5.10+ ● Pitch 3 offers excellent, memorable face climbing. At least one bolt is a long reach...shorter climbers tak… View Comment
Apr 25, 2023 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Fin > Fin Descent Gully Pay the Kitty 5.10a ● No, where did you place it? View Comment
Apr 23, 2023 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Fin > Upper Fin Follow this center right gully to the base of the Fin proper ● When approaching the Fin, as you pass Hook Line and Sinker, step right around an exposed rib. Move up a sho… View Comment
Apr 23, 2023 Wasatch Range > … > Little Cottonwo… > Fin > Fin Descent Gully > Pay the Kitty (5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a) base of second pitch and first bolt ● This crack takes wide cams View Comment
Apr 18, 2023 Wasatch Range > … > Little Cottonwo… > Fin > Upper Fin > Finagle Variation (5.11d 7a 24 VIII 25 E5 6a PG13) booty shot second pitch ● Here's the crux, a difficult bold section getting past this bulge. Another Improbable Les Ellison creation… View Comment
Jan 10, 2023 bsmoot > People Karen Budding ● Not sure, but it could be Monkey Lip View Comment
Dec 5, 2022 Southwest Utah > Zion NP > E Temple > Lovelace (5.10c/d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b C2-) The notorious pitch 8 chimney ● Great lead! I was glad to clip your drilled pins. View Comment
Nov 11, 2022 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Tanners Gulch The correct name of this geological feature is "Tanner Gulch". ● This is a pretty minor issue, personally don't think any changes are needed. Tony's guides also have errors… View Comment
Nov 1, 2022 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Intensive Care… > Intensive Care (5.11 6c+ 23 VIII- 23 E4 5c R) Pitch 2 ● Thanks Kim, way to sac up with those long runnouts in the old EB shoes ...taking it to the next level back… View Comment
Oct 6, 2022 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Pentapitch Area Flashdance 5.11c R ● Lenny, this is what Paul told me, he even e-mailed George about it, although the description by George seem… View Comment
Sep 2, 2022 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Pawn En Passant 5.9 ● If you were climbing through the arch, you weren't on En Passant. You were on Evergreen Game View Comment
Aug 12, 2022 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Albion Basin > Devil's Castle Touch of Grey 5.11b/c ● The belay bolts at the top of pitch 1 are missing, the bolt holes are there though....cool ledge. Take 2 ro… View Comment
May 19, 2022 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Memorial Day Buttress Graduate School 5.10 ● All of the old scary bolts have now been replaced with new 3/8" SS bolts. This is the best route on this sl… View Comment
Apr 10, 2022 Wasatch Range > … > Little Cottonwo… > Boulders - Litt… > Gate Boulders > Standard Overhang Bou… Standard Overhang V3 ● Back when 1970's the tree wasn't even close to the standard overhang. View Comment
Jan 16, 2022 Wasatch Range > … > Little Cottonwo… > Gate Buttress > Schoolroom Area > Schoolroom Roof (5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b A1) Hanging out ● This doesn't look like the Schoolroom Roof. It looks more like the giant boulder that Lynn Wheeler bolted d… View Comment
Dec 5, 2021 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Green Adjective Gully Perhaps 5.7 ● These placements are just above where the pin used to be. View Comment
Nov 21, 2021 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Pawn > Path of the Argonian (5.9- 5c 17 VI 16 HVS 4c) Topo ● The rating for pitch 3 is more like 5.9- View Comment

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