BETA PHOTO: Schooldaze kind of goes right up the center.
Description
"Turret Dome is the largest rock in Elevenmile and offers an excellent selection of moderate slab routes. The south face has routes up to three pitches long with runouts in some places. The west face is shorter and offers steeper routes." Bob D'Antonio (taken from the Elevenmile Canyon guide book) This says it all. Outstanding multi-pitch rock with fewer crouds on it.
Getting There
Turret Dome is located 4.3 miles up the canyon on the right. Park at Elevenmile picnic area, cross the bridge and head upstream. You can't miss it. For south and west face routes, approach high over a short slab to avoid a dead end into the creek. This will take you directly into the start of Schooldaze. From the summit, work north and downclimb to a saddle. Descend east to the picnic area.
The Classics
Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Turret Dome:
"Decend east into picnic area" doesn't quite do justice to the decent from the summit. The downclimb off the back of this rock is kind of a pain (5.4-ish in spots), so when doing a route that summits Turret Dome (such as the Guide's Route), make sure to keep the ol' climbing shoes on for the downclimb and allow appropriate extra time.
Does anybody know anything about the bolted lines on Turret Dome? They looked like they were put up fairly recently. Any info. would be much appreciated.
They are in the database as [Unknown 1, Unknown 2,] and [Sloppy Shoes].
By Stich From: Colorado Springs, Colorado Sep 11, 2006
If the descent is wet, like it was for us today, you can go to a large tree on the North side of the dome (on your right facing Turret from the road). A 60 meter rope will barely get you all the way down past two ledges. The second ledge has a small tree to rap off if all you have is a 50 meter or you just want to be sure. If you do the full rap, angle the rope to the left to hit a mossy ledge. Going straight down won't work.
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