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BETA PHOTO: The Dungeon:
T - Toprope.
S - Sport.
L - Trad.
Description The Dungeon can be approached from the Falls Wall Trail from the Creek Bottom Trail or from the Rim Rock Trail. Some of its walls are no more than 3 feet wide, which provides nice shade in the summer. There are two entrances--for the small person, you can squeeze through a small crack on the West face outside the dungeon (see Steebos' Cousin). Or a passage way on the North end (see The Iron Maiden photo) leads into your dark, dismal, doom....
Getting There This is located at the North end of West Rim.
The ClassicsMountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for The Dungeon:
Featured Route For The Dungeon
By Aaron Shupp
Feb 18, 2002
| Walking towards the Dungeon from Falls Wall, there is a crevase that can be found along the canyon rim. A few easy chimney moves drop you into a windy passage way that eventually opens up into The Dungeon. |
By Aaron Shupp
Feb 18, 2002
| By the way, be sure to tar and feather those nasty savages who keep breaking glass bottles all over the Dungeon. |
By Mike Lane
From: Centennial, CO
Nov 23, 2002
| This is a great place to practice Yugoslavian spire-jumping. |
By Anonymous Coward
Oct 2, 2004
| Amen to the comment about the people breaking the bottles. I could have had sutures had I not been paying attention on this route. I cleaned as best I could while hanging out. Robb |
By Tom Hanson
Mar 30, 2007
| The Dungeon is not located on the north end of the west rim as stated by Ben in the original Dungeon description from 2001.
The Dungeon is located just north of the western-most projection of the east rim, near the middle of the entire east rim.
It is just north of The Falls Wall on the EAST rim. |
By meier.dh
May 31, 2011
| Does anyone know GPS coordinates to The Dungeon? I'm thinking about walking in from Franktown and camping in The Dungeon but don't want to hike more than 5 miles. thanks |
By Mike Lane
From: Centennial, CO
Jun 1, 2011
| | Dungeon.
Submitted By: Mike Lane on Jun 1, 2011
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Here, but it already has several trolls living down in there. And I have a family of Tanzmanians guarding our meth lab, too. |
By Mike Lane
From: Centennial, CO
Jul 10, 2011
| This is a good place for Summer workouts (most of the routes are hard) for Douglas and Arapahoe County residents when you don't have a long day for the real destinations. The actual best approach is by first getting to 9 Lives Arete on the East side of the creek, then trending southeast uphill, making sure you aim for each distant boulder you can see. By going from boulder to boulder, it will lead you the Westernmost point of the Dungeon area, follow the trail/walls east over the big dead tree. You also pass a ton of good bouldering this way. |
By Kevin Neilson
From: Boulder
Jul 26, 2012
| Helm Hammerhand, near the left (N) end: Loc: 39˚21.015'N 104˚45.525'W
Lichen the Old Country, near the right (S) end: Loc: 39˚20.983'N 104˚45.566'W Alt:6540'
The most reliable and easiest (though maybe not the shortest) way to get to the Dungeon is to park by the homestead ruins (the first lot encountered when entering from the north) and take the trail which leads across the bridge and up to the eastern rim. Take the trail until you are above one the Dungeon and find the route you want and rappel in. |
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