A few cups of coffee, pumpkin pancakes and eggs fueled a mid-morning 4+ mile run on the Boreas Pass Road. Afterwards, Tara and I re-packed for a simpler hike up McCullough Gulch. Wildflowers were barely out and a lot of snow remained to melt. Still, White Falls was beautiful as always and we hiked to [...]
Archive for June, 2011
McCullough Gulch
Posted in hiking, tagged McCullough Gulch on June 29, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Anthill Direct
Posted in climbing, tagged Anthill Direct, Eldorado Canyon, rock climbing, Touch and Go on June 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Eldorado Canyon route “Anthill Direct” has been on my to-do list for a while, but with a spooky run-out pitch I didn’t see myself leading it all anytime really soon. So when Tara’s climbing partner Brad suggested we tackle the route and was willing to lead whatever pitches I didn’t want I was psyched [...]
Bush Loves Detroit
Posted in climbing, tagged Bush Loves Detroit, Fast Boat to China, Golden Cliffs, North Table Mountain, rock climbing on June 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It was a warm afternoon, but a few clouds kept temperatures reasonable as Gary and I hiked up to North Table Mountain’s Golden Cliffs. He had a route in mind and led us around to the west side of the basalt cliffs to rack up above the Coors Brewery. It takes me longer to type [...]
Bastille Crack
Posted in climbing, hiking, tagged Bastille Crack, Blind Faith, Eldorado Canyon, rock climbing on June 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Winds were rocking the car in the parking lot while a light rain was hitting the windshield. It was enough to convince Tara and I to scuttle plans to go rock climbing in Eldo for a hike around Walker Ranch. Conditions improved by Saturday morning when I met Jonathan to carpool into the canyon with [...]
Freeway
Posted in climbing, tagged Freeway, Second Flatiron on June 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I was preparing to head out for another solo day scrambling in the Flatirons when I heard that Jenn and Jeremy were planning to do Freeway, a long 4th class route up the Second Flatiron. More than happy for their company I agreed to join them and serve a bit as a guide (having done [...]
Cristo Couloir
Posted in Colorado 14ers, tagged Cristo Couloir, Quandary Peak on June 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The thought to just ignore my alarm runs quickly through my otherwise slow synapses at 3am. However, this is my main chance to get outside this weekend and I’ve told too many people my plans to back out now. Downing coffee I drive to the Blue Lakes reservoirs and pull up on some campers organizing [...]
Rewritten
Posted in climbing, tagged Eldorado Canyon, Great Zot, Rebuffat's Arete, Rewritten, rock climbing on June 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tara had asked to climb Rewritten (5.7) in Eldorado Canyon and since it’s both a great route and has a few pitches I hadn’t yet led I was more than willing. A reasonable start had us the first on the this popular classic on a Friday morning. For the third time, I found myself leading [...]
Reggae
Posted in climbing, tagged Boulder Direct, Eldorado Canyon, Reggae, West Overhang, Wind Tower on June 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
With all the well-fed chipmunks running around Eldorado Canyon, it shouldn’t have been a surprise that I’d eventually see a snake. Still, the good-sized bull snake (I think) temporarily stopped my approach to the Wind Tower. Teresa was ready to try her first 5.7 since returning to rock climbing so we warmed up with the [...]
