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Oct 2, 2009 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Bihedral Area > Bihedral (Upper Tier) A Fly in the Ointment 5.10b ● Climbed this today, so no prior experience with the liebacks, and I'm no powerhouse at 52. I believe more… View Comment
Sep 20, 2009 Boulder > Boulder Canyon > Sport Park > Surprising Crag > W Face The Other One 5.11a ● Yeah, what IS that other route rated? Harder than I usually try, but it seemed so inviting after The Other… View Comment
Sep 1, 2009 Estes Park Valley > Big Thompson Ca… > Combat Rock GI Joe Does Barbie 5.10a ● I can't remember a harder 5.9+ route. I'm 5'8" and it seemed closer to 10+. I placed some opposed nuts in… View Comment
Aug 11, 2009 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Helen's Dome Spree 5.8 ● I counted 6 bolts to the anchors. Very civilized. View Comment
Jul 3, 2009 Golden > Clear Creek Canyon > Mission Wall Ground Control to Gumby One 5.10- ● Very fun. Only 5.9? A couple pieces of chain would improve the anchor since this will no doubt get traffi… View Comment
Jul 3, 2009 Golden > Clear Creek Canyon > Mission Wall Ride The Snake 5.9+ ● I LIKE this route. We did it as 4 pitches in less than 2 hrs. About the crux, between 2 people and 3 leads… View Comment
Jun 30, 2009 Golden > Clear Creek Canyon > Twilight Zone Freedom Fries 5.11b ● I counted 13 bolts + anchors. Pretty cool! View Comment
May 17, 2009 Golden > Clear Creek Canyon > Creek Side Crackside 5.9+ ● BTW, it's almost exactly 100' down to the good ledge. Good route. View Comment
May 12, 2009 Golden > Clear Creek Canyon > River Wall Grilled Trout 5.10c ● Darren Mabe's book rated this 5.10a/b which seems about right. I'd suggest it if you liked the two routes… View Comment
Apr 26, 2009 Golden > N Table Mountai… > Trad Lands BM Route 5.9+ ● I did this today and vaguely remember the flake I used a few years ago which made it much easier. What's t… View Comment
Mar 31, 2009 Southeast Utah > Fisher Towers > Echo Tower Mystery protection on Phantom Sprint. Anyone know what's behind the mud curtain? ● Assuming there is a prize: my guess is an ancient rusted (pre lost arrow?) pin that someone reslung and the… View Comment
Feb 23, 2009 CO Ice & Mixed > … > Glacier Gorge T… > Glacier Gorge > Glacier Creek D… > Black Lake - W Gully (WI3-4) Richard Rossiter starting the first pitch of the West Gully, 1977. Photo by Tim Hogan. The gear is novel: Galibier leather boots, hinged crampons, wool knickers, Dachstein mits, home-made sit harness and rucksack, oval carabiners on 1-inch webbing, Stubai solid ice screws, Forest Mjolner (ice hammer), Rooster Head axe (right hand), Ultimate climbing helmet, et cetera. This is not an actual climber of course, but a manikin in a glass case, at the Smithsonian. ● Funniest caption I ever read! AND, it's almost exactly what I in 1977. (I was the other guy who had a Roost… View Comment
Sep 23, 2008 Southwest Utah > Zion NP Sandstone erosion caused by wet ropes in Behunin Canyon. ● I bet these were mostly caused by toproping rather than wet ropes. I've seen grooves like this on lots of d… View Comment
Apr 29, 2008 S Central Utah > San Rafael Swell > San Rafael Swel… > Eastern Reef Ar… > K Crags Mercury 5.8+ R ● OMG,as the kids say, my rope just measured 184 feet!!! BAD NEWS FOR NEW ENGLAND ROPES, MY MAXIM EQUINOX 10… View Comment
Apr 28, 2008 S Central Utah > San Rafael Swell > San Rafael Swel… > Eastern Reef Ar… > K Crags Mercury 5.8+ R ● [revised] Beautiful climbing, poor protection. I couldn't reach the anchors with a 60m rope which turned ou… View Comment
Apr 28, 2008 S Central Utah > San Rafael Swell > San Rafael Swell - South Eastern Reef Area.. AKA The Sandstone Alps ● [revised] I enjoyed the climbing, my climbing partner of 20+ years was freaked out a lot, with cause. I bou… View Comment
Oct 31, 2007 S Platte > Turkey Rocks > Turkey Perch Left Handed Jew 5.7+ ● Out of curiosity, what the consensus rating going straight up above the overlap onto the face? (I thought… View Comment
Sep 18, 2007 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Land That Time Forgot Riders in the Sky 5.10c R ● A couple of my friends (without computer access) climbed this a few weeks ago and said don't add another bo… View Comment
Aug 6, 2007 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Land That Time Forgot I Love a Cigar 5.10c/d ● This route starts ONLY 35 feet left of Riders in the Sky. (70-80 feet puts you on Bill's Route [project, ac… View Comment
Jul 30, 2007 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Land That Time Forgot Knossos 5.9+ ● Starts from the middle/left of that perfect belay ledge. We only did the first pitch, about 120 feet to 2… View Comment
Jul 30, 2007 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Land That Time Forgot Riders in the Sky 5.10c R ● Only climbed the first pitch and it was great. Not overly bolted but not scary either. View Comment
Jul 30, 2007 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Land That Time Forgot Nazca Line 5.10a/b ● This route starts right off the top of that wide, fallen flake at the right side of the two tiered ledge (w… View Comment
Jul 30, 2007 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Land That Time Forgot Minoan Maze 5.10c ● I just did this yesterday; brought 15 draws and used 10 on the 23 clip (3rd) pitch. The idea of 23 bolts s… View Comment
Jul 14, 2007 Golden > Clear Creek Canyon > Back of the Nineties Priapos 5.10d ● I thought this was harder than Aphrodite and will have to go back and try to finish it. (Apparently I baile… View Comment
Jul 14, 2007 Golden > Clear Creek Canyon > Back of the Nineties Aphrodite 5.10d ● Good route! Great description, I never knew what I was going to do next. It's still got that new route fl… View Comment
Jul 11, 2007 Golden > Clear Creek Canyon > Little Eiger Persistent Vegetative State 5.10a/b ● Fun route! I did in '05 and thought it was 5.10a/b. Easiest to belay from the top and rap straight down wi… View Comment
Jul 6, 2007 S Platte > Buffalo Creek > Little Scraggy Dome Two Jews Blues 5.10c ● I'd agree w Chad, that section has had almost all the micro-flakes pulled off. Definitely seemed a letter o… View Comment
Jul 6, 2007 S Platte > Buffalo Creek > Asshole Rock Cardiac Crack 5.9+ ● Fun climb. Definitely not harder than 5.9+ with solid moves, clean rock and good pro. Walk North to down-… View Comment
Jun 26, 2007 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Helen's Dome AWOL (aka Moss Toss) 5.8 ● I climbed this many years ago and also the slab direct variation after someone bolted the face left of it.… View Comment
Jun 1, 2006 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Acid Rock The Divine Ms M. 5.9- ● The Divine Miss M 3rd pitch starts off the ledge around to the right and goes straight up a shallow goove [… View Comment
May 31, 2006 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Helen's Dome Fool's Gold 5.9+ ● Just a quick note for us old timers who use Hubbel's book, 10 QD is about right now since several bolts wer… View Comment
May 31, 2006 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock Acid Rock ● I did the route just left of Charlie Don't Surf, which Hubbel calls #39, Unknown 5.10b. The bolts are all… View Comment
May 8, 2006 S Platte > Goose Creek/Mol… > Sheeprock > Acid Rock Charley Don't Surf 5.10d ● I was on this route yesterday and didn't find any bolts on the pitch, just the anchors. (It's refreshing n… View Comment
Dec 14, 2004 Southeast Utah > Potash Rd > Wall Street Flakes of Wrath 5.9+ ● Just a comment for AC/Casey B. I've climbed the route a few times over the years and always used a tied-of… View Comment

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