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Dec 26, 2025 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Bihedral Area > Bihedral (Upper Tier) Rhodian Shores 5.10b ● Today, my friend might have decked had I not built a ground anchor to belay from. I was belaying from the l… View Comment
Dec 26, 2025 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Bihedral Area This is the western trailhead that leads directly to the Lower Tier of the Bihedral and is also the most direct approach for the Upper Tier scramble. It doesn't look like much of a trail, but once you get above these rocks, a more obvious trail appears. ● This trail starts within a couple of minutes walking downstream (back toward Boulder) from the Cascade or B… View Comment
Dec 26, 2025 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Bihedral Area > Bihedral (Upper Tier) Dan's Line 5.8 ● This feels much harder than Trick or Treat if you don't like thin, slabby moves. The loose microwave-sized… View Comment
Dec 26, 2025 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Bihedral Area > Bihedral (Upper Tier) Trick or Treat 5.8 ● I agree with all the comments that the crack section is easy. No jamming is needed. There are solid hand ho… View Comment
Dec 25, 2025 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Bihedral Area > Bihedral (Upper… > Bihedral Arete (5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a) Approach to routes on the upper tier of the Bihedral. Follow the approach trail up the hill until it cuts right toward the rock at a flat area. Spot a cairn by a big pine tree close to the rock. Head right, past the tree and around a rock rib. Climb the rock, mostly easy with a short 3rd-class section, up to the upper tier. ● The approach trail will take you to the Lower Tier. See the photos for Beer Dog and Canine Corner to orient… View Comment
Dec 25, 2025 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Bihedral Area The correct entry trailhead. ● This photo is the trailhead for the Riveria area. There is another trailhead farther west (toward Nederland… View Comment
Dec 21, 2025 Golden > Clear Creek Canyon > Live Action Wall Raggedy Andy 5.9 ● Fun, thoughtful, and pumpy at the bottom with good rests in the 2nd half. This route is 10a in the Capps' g… View Comment
Dec 21, 2025 Golden > Clear Creek Canyon > Live Action Wall The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle 5.8 ● Fun route, not a jug haul. It requires some trust in slabby foot holds and comfort with liebacking. The anc… View Comment
Nov 19, 2025 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Blob Rock Area A topo overview. ● From the trail at the east end of the parking lot, the first trail fork is at the WAG bag station, and the… View Comment
Nov 19, 2025 Boulder > Boulder Canyon Blob Rock Area ● Note that there's an Upper East Face on the main Blob Rock and an Upper East Face on the East Blob, which c… View Comment
Nov 19, 2025 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Blob Rock Area East Blob ● Note that there's an Upper East Face on the main Blob Rock and an Upper East Face on the East Blob, which c… View Comment
Sep 14, 2025 Boulder > Eldorado Canyon SP > W Ridge > W Ridge - part A - Ve… Verschneidung Dihedral 5.7 ● There is a small gold nut that got solidly stuck today on P2 just as you enter the dihedral from the party… View Comment
Aug 17, 2025 Boulder > Boulder Canyon Across from The Bihedral aka Cascade Crag ● As Mark Griffin noted, the tyrol has been relocated lower on the tree. You arrive on the ground/rocks on th… View Comment
Aug 1, 2025 Lake Tahoe > I-80 Corridor > Bowman/Emeralds The Emeralds ● Don't depend on trails being marked with cairns. Many cairns have been unbuilt as of July 2025. Trails can… View Comment
Aug 1, 2025 Yosemite NP > Tuolumne Meadows > Stately Pleasure Dome This is the spot on the headwall (small alcove) next to the second set of rap bolts on the descent. Hard to get a photo from so close but this gives the general idea. Photo taken in July 2025. ● You can reach this spot from the first set of rap bolts near the tree if you have two ropes. With a single… View Comment
Aug 1, 2025 Lake Tahoe > Highway 50 Corr… > Lover's Leap > Lower Buttress > Surrealistic Pillar (5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b) Joe L. coming up the wide crack section. If you have a 5" shoulder, you can do it this way. ...The rest of us can't. :-\| July 2009 ● This photo appears to be taken from the P1 anchor at the horn and flake midway through the traverse to the… View Comment
Aug 1, 2025 Lake Tahoe > Highway 50 Corr… > Lover's Leap > Lower Buttress Surrealistic Pillar 5.7 ● Stellar climbing! I definitely recommend taking a #5 to bump up the 15 feet or so of consistent wide crack… View Comment
Aug 1, 2025 Lake Tahoe > Highway 50 Corr… > Lover's Leap > Lower Buttress > Surrealistic Pillar (5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b) Joe L. coming up the wide crack section. If you have a 5" shoulder, you can do it this way. ...The rest of us can't. :-\| July 2009 ● This is where a BD 5 really came in handy. I bumped it all the way up that crack. I hear tell there's a fix… View Comment
Aug 1, 2025 Lake Tahoe > Highway 50 Corr… > Lover's Leap > Lower Buttress > Surrealistic Pillar (5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b) Lower X is possible belay for top of first pitch at base of wide crack. Or keep going to build your anchor at the upper X on top of a large horn at a flake. ● I followed a guide and tried his anchor position at the upper X horn and flake. The gear was a bit more mar… View Comment
Jul 19, 2025 Boulder > Boulder Canyon Cob Rock ● The Tyrolean has been relocated slightly downstream (farther east of the parking lot) and now goes rock to… View Comment
Jul 6, 2025 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Watermark Twin Peaks 5.10a/b ● Fun route! At 5'7", the crux "reach" for me involved using a mediocre intermediate knob gaston with my righ… View Comment
Jul 4, 2025 Boulder > Boulder Canyon Across from The Bihedral aka Cascade Crag ● One of the Tyrolean ropes is core shot again as of July 4, 2025. BCC has been notified. This Tyrol gets… View Comment
Dec 29, 2024 Golden > Clear Creek Canyon > Dog House Black Dog 5.9+ ● Agreed with the other commenters - this is not a 5.9+ crux if you are shorter. I'm 5'7" and thought the cru… View Comment
Dec 8, 2024 Canon City > Shelf Rd > Bank > 01. Piggy Bank Misery 5.10a ● This route is rated 10b in the Thompson 2019 guidebook. It does not appear in the D'Antonio 2010 guidebook.… View Comment
Oct 20, 2024 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Dome East of the Sun 5.7 ● The beta for the P1 crux in the description did not work at all for me. Alternate shorter person beta -… View Comment
Sep 2, 2023 Yosemite NP > Yosemite Valley > Valley S Side > D. Half Dome > 4. Southwest Face Snake Dike 5.7 R ● N Kalli's Google Earth gear/bolt beta was cool but appears to be incomplete according to the free Supertopo… View Comment
Aug 14, 2023 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Dome The Owl 5.7+ ● Look, this route isn't 5.7, especially if you're not 6'4" like Layton Kor and especially without beta. The… View Comment
Jul 29, 2023 Boulder > Boulder Canyon The Sport Park ● The tyrol is up and in decent shape as of July 2023. It requires climbing in and out of trees but isn't bad… View Comment
Jul 23, 2023 Estes Park Valley > CO Hwy 7 & Trib… > Jurassic Park -… > Fin Edge of Time 5.9+ PG13 ● Don't be fooled by the comments saying this is safe and easy. This is old school 5.9 with groundfall potent… View Comment
Jun 26, 2023 S Platte > Staunton SP > Staunton Rocks Park View Dome ● Really fun formation for mellow multi-pitch trad. I found several placements for tricams where nothing else… View Comment
Jun 26, 2023 S Platte > Staunton SP > Staunton Rocks > Park View Dome Chicken Dance 5.5 ● Fun route! Tricams are useful if you have them, and chickenheads can be girth hitched. Note that the cra… View Comment
Jun 26, 2023 S Platte > Staunton SP > Staunton Rocks > Park View Dome Lost at Sea 5.5 ● Note that there is currently a backpack-sized, detached block sitting on slab just to climber's right of th… View Comment
May 27, 2022 Boulder > Flatirons > North > Second Flatiron Freeway 5.0 ● The jump from the "diving board" has been the site of many injuries...rolled ankles, jammed wrists, disloca… View Comment
Mar 27, 2022 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Castle Rock Cussin' Crack 5.7+ ● Reading the comments on this, it seems people have done this climb a lot of different ways. Here's what my… View Comment
Mar 27, 2022 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Castle Rock > Cussin' Crack (5.7+ 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b) Cussing Crack. ● Super helpful photo. Don't get fooled by the small ledge before the bolt on P1. You have to traverse climbe… View Comment
Mar 27, 2022 Boulder > Boulder Canyon Castle Rock ● Walkoff zigzags down ledges, with some downclimbing, to the north (toward CO 119). The tree for rappelling… View Comment

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