Best OW in Colorado?
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I just tore my ring finger A2. It will heal in good time but in the immediate future I need some ideas of the best offwidth climbs around. Single pitch, multipitch, alpine routes, whatever is quality. |
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Vedauwoo.... It's essentially in Colorado. |
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Wolfs tooth.....Lumpy..... |
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Road Warrior on Black Wall, Mt. Evans? |
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"Meat Pipe" on the Taj Mahal in Jackson Creek. In the "rampart range road" section of the S. Platte here on MP.com |
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Maxito wrote:Road Warrior on Black Wall, Mt. Evans?+1!!! |
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The Maelstrom in the S. Platte is classic (currently closed though). |
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Another closed area, Split Rocks, had this badass offwidth route named Animal Magnetism... |
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Maxito wrote:Road Warrior on Black Wall, Mt. Evans?Covered in about 10 feet of snow right now |
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Go Spuds Go at Grey Rock. Awesome. |
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The Blueprint Part Dank wrote: As for the front range, ummm, Huston Crack in Boulder Canyon and the Grand Girraffe crux pitch (though, the climbing up to that point would make your A2 less than a happy camper)Crack A Beer in CCC is pretty good. Handcrack on The Box in the Flatirons is NOT a handcrack, it's OW. And if in Bocan, then there is Coffin Crack and the one next to it. I forget the name. The Blueprint Part Dank wrote:For my money, I'd head to Turkey Rocks in the South Platte. Sidewinder is a highlight, but that whole part of the crag has plenty of OW.There's a few on Sunshine wall as well. Road Warrior on Evans is indeed pretty much OW and pretty good. |
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+1 for Escalante |
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From Kimball's '86 guidebook to lumpy: |
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Kirk, I do...I wish I would have tried it eons ago (or perhaps not!?). The land was for sale some years ago and I took another gander with a realtor (kinda~~~ long story...). Since I knew it was closed (unless I had some big bank....) it looked "easier" than what I had remembered. Heh |
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Ed L wrote:I just tore my ring finger A2. It will heal in good time but in the immediate future I need some ideas of the best offwidth climbs around. Single pitch, multipitch, alpine routes, whatever is quality. I am looking for splitter style lines without cheater crimps that I may be tempted to use with my sad torn finger. I would like to avoid cracks smaller than fists as cups will wreck my healing and the temptations of locker fingers may prove to be too great. Hands...maybe in a week or two. Thanks in advance for your ideas. I have been avoiding ow like the plague but am trying to bring something positive out of this 'down' time.Ed, sorry to hear about your injury. Feel free join our Voo Boo Boo squad anytime in Vedauwoo. I even bought a "new suit" for this years "informalities". Bring lots of tape, my personal preference is Mueller Euro....YMMV |
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The Voo is practically Colorado.Have fun. |