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Sep 14, 2020 Wind River Range Pingora in Cirque of the Towers ● August 1985. View Comment
Aug 10, 2009 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Castle Rock Bailey's Overhang 5.8 ● Thanks for taking care of this, Greg! View Comment
Jul 26, 2009 Boulder > Eldorado Canyon SP The Wind Tower ● Agree with Greg; the stainless-steel ring in the Fixe Trad anchor is plenty strong, and it isn't even the w… View Comment
Jul 5, 2009 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Bihedral Area The Bihedral (Upper Tier) ● Rick Casey wrote:There is a new bolted route just left of Group Therapy, which I led today, which I believe… View Comment
Jun 9, 2009 Boulder > Boulder Canyon Sleeping Beauty ● Condition Report As of 6/8/09, the Sleeping Beauty tyrolean (by the Boulderado/Animal World parking area… View Comment
May 25, 2009 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Bihedral Area The Bihedral (Upper Tier) ● cdg -- the most people I've seen at the Bihedral is 31 (not 45), on a sunny and warm Sunday Feb. 22, 2009.… View Comment
May 23, 2009 Boulder > Boulder Canyon Blob Rock Area ● Condition report As of 5/23/09, the raptor closure on Blob Rock has been lifted, and the area is now open… View Comment
May 23, 2009 Boulder > Boulder Canyon Sherwood Forest ● Condition report On 5/23/09, Bruno Hache and I finished work on the new tyrolean. The old tyrolean came d… View Comment
May 21, 2009 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Bihedral Area The Bihedral (Upper Tier) ● Don't use the rappel if you don't want to -- but it's useful in bad weather, if you have a heavy pack, or i… View Comment
May 13, 2009 Marc H > Randoms Rattler in Eldo devouring a chipmunk. ● One less pack-chewing critter to worry about...way to go, rattler! View Comment
Apr 12, 2009 Telluride/Norwood area Ophir ● Rob -- Leo Paik, an MP.com administrator, added Ophir as part of the reorganization of Colorado by geograph… View Comment
Apr 12, 2009 Boulder > Boulder Canyon Lower Dream Canyon ● Phil, Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks (OSMP) closed the Boulder Falls area on March 30 "until further… View Comment
Apr 12, 2009 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Boulder Slips Edges and Ledges 5.8 ● When you're climbing or descending from this route, stay out of the loose gully on the left, and stay on th… View Comment
Apr 11, 2009 Boulder > Boulder Canyon Boulder Slips ● Phil, the route left of The Throttle (and next to the old trad route Quagmire) is called Giggity! Giggity!.… View Comment
Mar 18, 2009 Boulder > Eldorado Canyon SP > W Ridge > W Ridge - part C - Po… Sister Morphine 5.9- ● Interesting, Dave. I didn't see a rap anchor for Sister Morphine in any recent FHRC applications. aceeldo.… View Comment
Mar 5, 2009 Gunks > Trapps > i. High E > High Exposure (5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b) High E never looked so good. ● On a toprope, which you can see if you enlarge the photo. View Comment
Oct 19, 2008 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Bihedral Area > Bihedral (Upper Tier) A Fly in the Ointment 5.10b ● A pumpy and committing route. We toproped the line after leading Tool King. The moves past the three bolt… View Comment
Oct 6, 2008 Boulder > Eldorado Canyon SP > Wind Tower > Wind Tower - SW… > Breezy (5.5 4b 13 IV+ 11 MS 4a) Breezy and Wind Ridge. Walk off after two pitches, or continue to the summit. ● The descent arrow points in the correct direction. From the top of Wind Ridge, you head climber's right (ea… View Comment
Sep 15, 2008 Golden > Clear Creek Canyon > Canal Zone Turkey Jerky 5.10c ● Solid 5.10 getting off the ground; have a spotter or stick-clip the first bolt. Pumpy and sustained crux c… View Comment
Sep 15, 2008 Golden > Clear Creek Canyon > Canal Zone Gondolier Arete 5.10a ● Another steep, fun route. The crux at the last bolt was a little tricky and felt harder than 10a. On Sep… View Comment
Sep 15, 2008 Golden > Clear Creek Canyon > Canal Zone Made In The Shade 5.9- ● A really fun pitch with a bunch of 5.9 moves. Well bolted for a 5.9 leader; more advanced climbers may be… View Comment
Jul 24, 2008 Boulder Boulder Canyon ● Tonnere Tower is a good summer crag. Sport Land, on the east face, is in full shade after 2pm this time of… View Comment
Jul 6, 2008 N America > … > Nuevo Leon > El Potrero Chico > Virgin Canyon > Suicide Overlook The Scariest Ride in the Park 5.9 X ● It's also the route on which Jimmy Ray Forester friendsofforester.com/artic… lost his life attemptin… View Comment
Jul 1, 2008 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Avalon > Third Tier > Crack Land Mystery Tour 5.8+ ● A nice, physical corner crack -- too bad it's not longer. Two #2 Camalots and two #3 Camalots protect the… View Comment
May 10, 2008 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Animal World > Middle Animal World Talking Out Of Turn 5.10b ● This is a great climb! One of the best 5.10 sport routes I've done in Boulder Canyon. Interesting, exposed,… View Comment
Apr 26, 2008 Golden > N Table Mountai… > Overhang Area #1 shows the simple set-up that is bomber and easily replaced without removing the bolt. #2 shows the problem. Sure a single rap hanger is cheaper, but what about the future? Removing bolts weakens them. I've broken several unscrewing them. #3 how anyone can fix a worn rap hanger. The fatter, stronger, quick links in #1 are a tight fit. ● If you use a stud bolt with #2, you don't have to remove the bolt to replace the hanger. Just unscrew the… View Comment
Mar 2, 2008 Boulder > Eldorado Canyon SP > Redgarden Wall > Redgarden - Lumpe to… The Green Spur 5.9+ ● Dealing with loose rock is a skill every climber needs in his/her repertoire. If not in Eldorado, then in… View Comment
Mar 2, 2008 Boulder > Eldorado Canyon SP > Redgarden Wall > Redgarden - Lumpe to… The Green Spur 5.9+ ● Loose rock is a fact of life in Eldorado; Green Spur is but one of many examples. Red Ledge has lots of lo… View Comment
Mar 2, 2008 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Boulder Slips Minutia 5.8 ● I climbed the route again on 3/1/08. I found some small loose rocks near the start of the crack, which I p… View Comment
Mar 2, 2008 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Boulder Slips Party Time! 5.9 ● On 11/5/07, I cleared a bunch of loose rocks from the ledge near the top of the route. I climbed the route… View Comment
Jan 5, 2008 N America > Mexico > Nuevo Leon > El Potrero Chico > Mota Wall Dope Ninja 5.10b ● A fun adventure sport-climbing route with a mountaineering feel. Here are my notes from our climb in Feb.… View Comment
Dec 2, 2007 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Happy Hour Crag > Malign (5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b) Not sure what route the two bolts are for. Photo: Dave Fiorucci ● The bolts are the start of Seein' Double; see . View Comment
Nov 4, 2007 Boulder > Eldorado Canyon SP > Redgarden Wall > Redgarden - Lumpe to… The Green Spur 5.9+ ● An easier variation bypasses the bombay slot and takes the little roof and left-facing corner to the right;… View Comment
Oct 8, 2007 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Sleeping Beauty > Main Wall Aerial Boundaries 5.12a/b A0 ● The information in Rossiter's guidebook is incorrect; Moe Hershoff may have toproped the line free, but he… View Comment
Oct 4, 2007 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Solaris Mission To Mars 5.10a ● Tradsplatter wrote:This climb is a waste of bolts. I only followed this one, but it seemed roughly correct… View Comment
Sep 5, 2007 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Wizard Rock Right Arete 5.7 ● Tony, The side of Wizard Rock with Christal Ball, Magic Wand, Snow Crash, etc. faces west, not north. B… View Comment

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