Discussion Topic |
|
This thread has been locked |
Prod
Trad climber
A place w/o Avitars apparently
|
|
|
Jan 15, 2009 - 10:51am PT
|
What a road trip! I also liked your conversations on Mountain Project about that route. Have you ever been on Lady Wilsons Cleavage? I'm thinking I need to get up to that wall...
Prod.
|
|
Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
|
|
|
Jan 15, 2009 - 12:28pm PT
|
Climbing in Red Rocks in those days was a grand adventure.
Hear, hear to that! Sometimes it still is, witness Texplorer's grand adventure upthread,
from 2006. I suspect there are more adventure stories out there in Tacoland waiting
to be written, not all of them about first ascents.
I share Philo's dismay at the urbanization of the desert east of the canyons, that
openness was a sad thing to lose. And rising populations, traffic and pollution
directly affect the canyons themselves. In my view, that's a larger and less
reversible threat than the BLM regulations of climbers, onerous as those might be.
From the summit of Windy Peak, 1975:
|
|
philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
|
|
|
Jan 15, 2009 - 01:48pm PT
|
Chiloe that is an awesome picture from BITD. It almost looks like the face of an old piaute stareing of to the future in the East.
|
|
Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
|
|
|
Jan 15, 2009 - 02:00pm PT
|
It does look like that, doesn't it? Don't think I noticed at the time.
|
|
Prod
Trad climber
A place w/o Avitars apparently
|
|
|
Jan 15, 2009 - 02:23pm PT
|
Hiking out from Windy Peak over Thanksgiving. I think this was from the notch where you start to drop down the steep talis slope. Lots of city sprawl lights.
|
|
philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
|
|
|
Jan 16, 2009 - 12:13pm PT
|
Birdland is a totally fabulous route! One of my favorite routes in RR. Jorge Urioste took our kids on a nature hike so Julia and I could relax and enjoy the climb. I don't know if my ankle-biting rug rats will ever fully appreciate what an honor it was to be tour guided by a legend, but Julia and I still break into perma-grins thinking about that day. THANK YOU Jorge!
|
|
|
SuperTopo on the Web
|
Let us know!