Echo Canyon Info
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Just looking for some info on the bolted routes on what I believe is the roadside crag, anybody know names or ratings? |
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Are you talking Echo Canyon outside of Park City UT? |
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William Kramer wrote:Just looking for some info on the bolted routes on what I believe is the roadside crag, anybody know names or ratings?Last time I was at the Clint Eastwood wall there was a topo for the roadside wall with the Clint Eastwood topo. |
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Maybe it's not the roadside at all, this wall is about a mile east of the dry wall, it has 6 routes from 30 to 50 feet, all with shiny new bolts. The wall faces to the south, towards the interstate, and is about 20 feet off the road. First aw it months ago, and finally tried it yesterday with the kids, had a lot of fun, just curious about it. |
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William Kramer wrote:Maybe it's not the roadside at all, this wall is about a mile east of the dry wall, it has 6 routes from 30 to 50 feet, all with shiny new bolts. The wall faces to the south, towards the interstate, and is about 20 feet off the road. First aw it months ago, and finally tried it yesterday with the kids, had a lot of fun, just curious about it.I think you are describing roadside wall and like i said, check the topo at the clint Eastwood wall because it had a topo for roadside wall with it last time i was there. |
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Thank you, that's it. I can't remember exactly which route, either the fourth or the fifth from the left has a spinner hanger, looks like just need to tighten the nut, but I was in the wife's suburban and no tools. It still felt like solid placement. I will try to catch it next time I'm there if somebody else doesn't first. Again thanks for the info, just curious, why has nobody put a lot of these routes on this site? |
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I've thought about putting them on the site, but with how much work they've done on these new areas, and the topos they left at the crag, I didn't want to step on anyone's toes. The Clint Eastwood wall isn't represented very well on the site either. |
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That's my feelings exactly, I don't want to be the one to put them on here since I didn't make them, but they are well protected, fun routes. I have some great pics to add if they ever do get posted. |
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I went ahead and added the area with the topo. I haven't climbed any of the routes on the Roadside Crag yet, so I don't really have good descriptions to add the routes. |
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I added the routes for Roadside with some pics, left first ascents as not known. |
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I think you guys are fine to add those areas/routes. The guy who put up the routes (Dan) once told me he didn't have an account on mp and doesn't post anything. |
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the mtn proj page says there's a seasonal closure til 2nd weekend of april... this is true, right? |
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Shad Williams wrote:the mtn proj page says there's a seasonal closure til 2nd weekend of april... this is true, right?I don't believe so, I think the seasonal closure is only for areas that are up the side canyons. Areas right on the road like roadside crag, dry wall, and clint Eastwood wall are open year round. |
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kennoyce wrote: I don't believe so, I think the seasonal closure is only for areas that are up the side canyons. Areas right on the road like roadside crag, dry wall, and clint Eastwood wall are open year round.The areas that are closed have yellow signs that say so in very visible spots. Roadside, dry wall, clint eastwood, and bull hollow don't have signs. A county cop drove by while we were climbing the roadside the other day and he didn't stop or anything. |
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I have chatted with Dan on several occasions and he's stoked to have people on the routes. He doesn't have an account but told me to post them. I obviously never did. |
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About the Echo Canyon seasonal closure, some of the closure signs are obviously broken and missing, so rather than guess about what is included and what is not, I asked the biologist at DWR about this. This was their response: |