Cool moderates for a 1 day stop at Red Rocks.
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Help, Las Vegas friends. I'm driving with my daughter from LA to Denver next week. If we can stop for one day at Red Rocks, what are good options, 5.7-5.9, either for a nice longish route, or good cluster of shorter ones. Ideally they'd be not too far from the road and user friendly for RR noobs; I've never been. |
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Shawn, |
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Gigi Miller wrote:Shawn, In Pine Creek Birdland 5.7+, five pitches, and has a short 30 minute approach, plus you can easily hit up the Brass Wall, and Straight Shooter Wall after Birdland, and do Topless Twins single pitch 5.9+, and Straight Shooter single pitch 5.9+. GThese climbs will probably be a bit toasty next week for non-desert rats. Gigi's other suggestions would be good. A couple others to put on the list would be: Physical Graffiti Dark Shadows Frigid Air Frogland |
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Thanks for the tips Gigi and sqwirll. Any other friendly steers? |
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Shawn Mitchell wrote:Any other friendly steers?i will be your friendly steer. |
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LOL |
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I've gotta give a shout out for Tunnel Vision. (5.7). Maybe not a super high quality route, but absolutely unforgettable. |
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WiledHorse wrote: i will be your friendly steer.From Webster's: Steer -- a male bovine animal and especially a domestic ox (Bos taurus) castrated before sexual maturity. Well, I see why he is friendly. |
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i had a lot of fun climbing Birdland, which Gigi recommended. It was pretty hot, even in march when i was out there, but it's a really great climb. you might even be able to do Birdland in the morning and then do the first four pitches of Dark Shadows afterwards. that would be a super fun day. |
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I'd vote for the frigid air buttress. Its 5.9+ but it has a lot of variety and two stellar cracks in it. The only bad thing is the walk off and repels. Its a short hike from the ice box canyon parking lot (30 min) and it get shade really early, hits full sun around 8, but then goes in the shade in the afternoon. When I did it, today, we started about 8:45 and it was in full sun. By the time we got to the chimney pitch (pitch 3) we were in shade and I think pitch 4 was in the shade. I know the pitch with the short chimneys were in the shade. The nice thing about this climb is that you can find shade to belay even when the sun is out. |