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Jun 9, 2026 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Egg Jesus or Jeopardy 5.10c ● Fun route, interesting moves, great exposure, but way harder than most 5.10+ routes in LCC. I wasn't even… View Comment
May 27, 2026 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Big Cottonwood… > Challenge Buttress > N & W Faces Split Seam 5.10a R ● This is a really good route, with great gear, just don't pass up your placements. A single rack of tcus/ca… View Comment
Dec 14, 2025 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Early Bird Boing-oing-oing 5.10d ● Clay did a great job recleaning. adding a bolt and changing the anchors. Its a really fun route with wild m… View Comment
Nov 21, 2025 S Central Utah > … > San Rafael Swel… > Buckhorn Wash > Upper Buckhorn > Camels Head Rincon Something Good 5.10+ ● Rush Bowers and I (and maybe Rob Wagner) did the first accent of P1 in the late 1980s or early 1990s. We… View Comment
Nov 5, 2025 S Central Utah > … 1 > Buckhorn Wash > Lower Buckhorn > Mossback Buttress > Kent's Hand Crack (5.10+ 6b+ 21 VII+ 20 E3 5b) Approach-ish ● There is a slightly easier approach downcanyon around the bend kind of backside to this picture View Comment
May 9, 2025 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Keel Gen Z 5.10+ ● After several comments about the flake at Bolt #1, I reinforced it with 2 pieces of 3/8 inch glued in rebar… View Comment
Apr 19, 2023 W Desert > House Range > Notch Peak > Lower N Face Thunder Road 5.10- ● Fun climbing, shady and cool (even in the summer), good rock and well protected (for Notch). It might have… View Comment
Apr 5, 2023 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Ferguson Canyon > Cosmic Thing Wall Earth Girls are Easy Arete 5.12b ● Hard route on immaculate rock, lots of people tried this before Craig got it View Comment
Mar 21, 2023 Southeast Utah > San Juan County > Indian Creek > Trick or Treat Wall Cams Crack 5.11 ● This route and Jimmy Dean were put up in a single day by Cam and myself in the mid 90's. Cam went back the… View Comment
Sep 1, 2022 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Ferguson Canyon > Cosmic Thing Wall > Faith in Feldspar (5.10d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b) Faith in Feldspar 5.10+ ● Belay is behind trees on nice flat ledge View Comment
Aug 15, 2022 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Keel Peter's Flight School 5.11a R ● Peter nice work. That was a ballsy attempt. Not a lot of good pro, and I bet it was a bit loose on the fi… View Comment
Apr 11, 2022 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Ferguson Canyon > Animation Wall Suspended Animation 5.11d ● The bolts on this route are 1/4 inchers, and very rusty. Probably due to be replaced after 39 years. View Comment
Apr 6, 2022 Gunnison Gate View Canyon ● Chris Begue (and possibly Chuck Grossman) and I spent some time here in the early '80s and did a half dozen… View Comment
Oct 29, 2021 S Central Utah > … > San Rafael Swel… > Eastern Reef Ar… > O Crags (Three… > 1000' of Fun (5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b) From top of p5, go straight, cut right, then back left and up to a bolt (last bolt of 1200' of Fun) to summit and avoid rapping. ● Did this finish several years ago (I thought it was the route, I should read MP more often). It is OK, I t… View Comment
Sep 9, 2021 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Big Cottonwood… > Moss Ledges Five Second Rule aka Thomas G Needs Beer Goggles 5.8+ ● The new bolts are great for showing the way. Really fun climbing, steep but great holds everywhere. Lots… View Comment
Jul 30, 2021 Wasatch Range > … > Little Cottonwo… > Tanners Gulch > Hidden Heavenly… > N of Heaven (5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a) Looking back to the top of Pitch 1 ● Come on Tyler, don't leave us hanging, post us the video. I want to see the debris flow! View Comment
Jul 2, 2021 Southeast Utah > Grand County > Kane Springs Ca… > Space Tower Area Skinny Puppy 5.11a/b ● This route is really fun and thought provoking. The traverse on P2 is full value, and the flared chimney o… View Comment
Jun 27, 2021 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Tanners Gulch This is totally a guess, made with low-google-earth-skill. If this is even close to correct, the hike into the Hidden Heavenly slab is about .76 miles and about a thousand feet of loose, boulder strewn, chossy elevation gain. ● Wow that sounds fun. I'm in! View Comment
May 25, 2021 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Ferguson Canyon > Cathedral > Son of Slab (5.12b/c 7b+ 27 IX- 27 E6 6b) The route angles right, following the crack system to the left of the chimney feature, onto the blank-looking face above. ● The crack (now bolted) is the start to Brass Buster, as Rush Bowers busted an RP on a fall nearly grounding… View Comment
Apr 6, 2021 S Central Utah > … > San Rafael Swel… > Buckhorn Wash > Upper Buckhorn > Pictograph Panel Right Crack 5.10 ● I think Rob Wagner and I did the First on his birthday in the early 1990s. I do not remember if the first… View Comment
Apr 5, 2021 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Eagle Buttress & Envi… Shake it Up 5.10+ ● We need to report this route to the administrators. It says Apross did the first accent, but I was actuall… View Comment
Apr 5, 2021 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Eagle Buttress & Envi… Strangeways 5.11- ● Another great Apross route I can't do. Love the small wires. A hint for any the other climbers, like me… View Comment
Feb 21, 2021 S Central Utah > … > San Rafael Swel… > Buckhorn Wash > Lower Buckhorn > Mossback Buttress Kent's Hand Crack 5.10+ ● Got its name because when I saw it from the road it looked like a hand crack. I'd seen it a few months ear… View Comment
Feb 11, 2021 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Great White Icicle Area Astair 5.12a ● This is another Bill Robbins masterpiece. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately for those of us that don't… View Comment
Oct 11, 2014 Gunnison > Black Canyon of… > S Rim Routes > Astro Dog (5.11+ 7a 24 VIII 24 E4 6a) SOFB aproach to Astrodog in the Black Canyon near Montrose Colorado. ● Robert, Do you walk all of this? When I tried it 20+ years ago, we rapped off a bunch of junk to get to… View Comment
Aug 31, 2014 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Big Cottonwood… > Glass Ocean & Environs Tsunami 5.10b ● Great route for BCC, definite 3 star! Long (180+'), steep, and great rock and great positions. Double set… View Comment
Dec 2, 2011 Gunnison > Black Canyon of… > S Rim Routes Dark Star 5.11a ● Nice work, guys. Like Chris, I've been thinking there was some nice rock over there. View Comment
Feb 9, 2009 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwood Canyon Hogum Fork ● An alternative approach from someone who thinks this is the hardest approach of all time. Do not go in… View Comment
Feb 9, 2009 Wasatch Range > Central Wasatch > Little Cottonwo… > Crescent Crack Buttress Razor's Edge 5.12b ● I do not remember the belay at the bottom, it is ossible we placed one. We traversed in from the east side… View Comment

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