Thursday night Tara and I decided to find a semi-shady spot in Boulder Canyon to go rock climbing. We settled on Avalon and crossed Boulder Creek on the tyrolean. Since we’d never been here before, it took a bit of scouting around to locate the climbs we wanted but I was soon leading Dom Perignon, [...]
Archive for July, 2011
Bad Decisions at Bob’s
Posted in climbing, tagged Avalon, Bob's Crack, Bob's Rock, Dom Perignon, Elephant Rock, rock climbing, Tyrolean on July 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Sharksfin
Posted in climbing, tagged Estes Park, rock climbing, Sharksfin on July 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Wanting to escape 90+ degree temperatures in the Front Range, Jeremy and I returned to the Estes Park area on Sunday scouting out a new-to-us place known as “The Crags”. A minor uphill bushwhack through trees brought us to a scree field where we tried to make sense of the array of cliffs and locate [...]
Mount Yale
Posted in Colorado 14ers, hiking, tagged Denny Creek Trailhead, Mount Yale on July 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One day after Grays and Torreys Peaks my father and I made an early morning drive past Buena Vista to the Denny Creek Trailhead. A horse trailer to support a trail crew was taking up quite a bit of the parking lot and we were lucky to get a spot as the day’s hikers started [...]
Grays and Torreys
Posted in Colorado 14ers, hiking, tagged Grays Peak, Stevens Gulch, Torreys Peak on July 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
After a week of high-altitude “boot camp” my father had arranged a graduation hike of two 14,000+ foot peaks for his fellow flatlander friends. I was able to get the day off and join them in a relatively un-crowded climb of the very popular Grays and Torreys Peaks. It proved an auspicious day to hike [...]
City of Rocks
Posted in climbing, tagged Bath Rock, Carol's Crack, City of Rocks, Cowboy Route, Decadent Wall, Elephant Rock, Morning Glory Spire, Skyline, Superhits Wall, Wheat Thin on July 7, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Some months ago Piper convinced me to travel to City of Rocks in southern Idaho simply by reminding me that the rock there was granite. I’m a sucker for quality granite. Travel to the City was supposed to be a simple flight (delayed one hour) followed by a three hour drive to the City. On [...]
Pikes Peak
Posted in Colorado 14ers, hiking, tagged Devil's Playground, Northwest Slopes, Pikes Peak on July 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
After deciding to hike up Pikes Peak to increase my father’s count of Colorado 14ers, we settled on the Northwest Slopes route. My original plan had been to take two days and go up the classic Barr Trail, but the shorter (13.25 vs 26 miles round trip) Northwest Slopes route won out given the confines [...]
