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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Aug 30, 2018 - 01:03pm PT
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Totally depends on the weather, you can have blue sky warm days, days after a freak storm. You'll be jamming up some splitter and you get to the part that stays shady all the time, crack turns to ice runnel and you wish you had a few screws and your pick. Had to back off a few like that.
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domngo
climber
Canada
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Aug 30, 2018 - 01:20pm PT
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Thanks. Wondering If I should include it into this falls desert ramblings as a side adventure...been on the list too long!
Love the classic shots from the wonder years from Bob D'A upthread
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nafod
Boulder climber
State college
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Aug 30, 2018 - 01:57pm PT
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Something in Eleven Mile Canyon, taken about 20 years ago on a week-long visit to the Rockies. Slabbish easy route, but beautiful setting and fun day.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Aug 30, 2018 - 06:58pm PT
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South Platte! That place was my backyard for a few years back in the early 1990s. Loved Turkey Rocks! Free soloed a bunch of slabs to 5.8 in the Platte, can't remember where.
The last time I was there, we climbed in shorts and T-shirts in glorious weather, and woke up in my truck the next morning to 6 inches of snow.
Bucksnort Saloon anyone?????
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ionlyski
Trad climber
Polebridge, Montana
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Aug 30, 2018 - 09:33pm PT
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Wow! How many different areas are there in the area? Like how many different crags or outcroppings? 100 routes? 10? more? Looks delicious. Ranging from 5.8? to 5.??
Arne
edit-just looked it up on Mtn Project which credits around 2000! routes in the area. I had no idea, thought there was just a few climbs along the river.
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Don Paul
Social climber
Washington DC
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Aug 31, 2018 - 06:03am PT
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Thx Zoid for that correction.
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Zoid
Trad climber
West Creek, CO
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Aug 31, 2018 - 07:21am PT
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^^^^^^^^
Picture above is not Turkey Perch. It is the back (north) side of Turkey Tail.
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Just a Bump for one of my favorite areas.
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okay, whatever
climber
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A great area, that I remember from the early-mid 1970's. I went to CC in Colorado Springs 1972-1976, and Earl Wiggins and John Sherwood and Steve Hong and Ed Webster and Bryan Becker were all there, and Jim Dunn and Stewart Green and Kurt Rasmussen and others, occasionally. Muff Cheyney's shop was the Colorado Springs equivalent of Steve Komito's in Estes Park, in those days. Duncan Ferguson was the main boot/shoe repair worker at Komito's in Estes... along with Doug Snively... and Michael Covington ran the Fantasy Ridge climbing school out of that location, as well.Though I also remember 1970, when Komito's shop was on north Broadway, in Boulder. Anyway, the Turkey Rock complex had some great climbing... some of it fun and reasonable, and some of it pretty hard!
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Sonic
Trad climber
Golden, Co
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Love the Splatte!
Been working in a new 7 pitch line on Big Rock Candy MTN that meets into the top of Rotten Teeth (for now). It's coming in about 12-
One pitch left to put in and she'll be ready to go!
We found evidence of previous people up to p2.5. I believe Lee Marsh had put it up as an aid climb. Lots and lots of dirt in the crack and friable rock (clean now)!
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zip
Trad climber
pacific beach, ca
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Hey Sonic,
I was your Secret Santa last year.
Did you get your gift?
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Oct 29, 2018 - 06:43pm PT
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