decent hard trad routes
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Hey Ive been trying to find some good trad routes along the front range. Any suggestions? I really like the look of Naked Kill 5.12d at stumbling block, clear creek canyon... just a straight crack and slightly overhung, but its a little out of my range. A lot of the routes I've done on trad recently had a slab that you can break ankles on really easily. Ive also done Alpine, and its good and all, but not what I'm looking for. Any super stellar lines you guys know of.... that you would be willing to share? |
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What *IS* your range? |
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Theres a pretty cool place north of Clear Creek and south of Boulder called Eldorado Canyon. I've heard it has some fairly good trad lines. Not much beta out there on it though. |
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If that's the case you definitely need to start by defining "decent" and "hard"... cause I would say that 12+ qualifies as hard, but apparently that's too hard. |
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From the OP's personal page: |
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can you give a grade range you are looking at? i'm sure folks can come up with a good tick list if you narrow it down a bit. |
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Maybe this? |
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let's assume that 12a is the baseline of hard trad climbing. if that's the case, probably the fisher-price-my-first-hard-trad-route would be thunderdome in boulder canyon, or maybe arms bazaar (although a bolt protects the crux). roadrunner in clear creek might be a good option if you live in golden. |