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Routes Sorted
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Bloody Englishman 
Cold Turkey 
Easy Chimney 
Gobble Up 
Gobbler's Cobbler, The 
Honky Jam Ass Crack 
Lack Crack 
Left Handed Jew 
Liquid Acrobat 
Mark of Zorro 
Moderate 2 
Moderate 1 
Ragger Bagger 
Reefer Madness 
Sangaphogos aka Easy Off-Width 
Short and Sweet 
Steppenwolf 
Stiff Little Fingers 
Turkey Sandwich 
Wet Turkey aka Turkey Perch Offwidth 
Wide Chimney 
Unsorted Routes:

Turkey Perch 


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With superb rock quality and interesting, varied, one pitch routes of moderate grades, it's easy to see why this area is so popular. It is also a popular top roping and warmup area.

Steppenwolf is the crag's classic offwidth with a hidden hold and an interesting crack to face climbing finish.


Getting There 

Once you get to the saddle between Turkey Rocks and Turkey Tail, turn left, and follow the trail to this area.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Turkey Perch:
Short and Sweet   V2     Boulder, 12 feet   
Honky Jam Ass Crack   5.7     Trad   
Bloody Englishman   5.8     Trad, 1 pitch   
Gobble Up   5.8     Trad, 1 pitch   
Reefer Madness   5.8     Trad, 1 pitch   
Left Handed Jew   5.8     Trad, TR, 1 pitch, 70 feet   
Cold Turkey   5.8+     Trad, 1 pitch, 100 feet   
Ragger Bagger   5.8+     Trad, 1 pitch   
Steppenwolf   5.9     Trad, 1 pitch   
Mark of Zorro   5.9     Trad, 1 pitch, 40 feet   
Stiff Little Fingers   5.11c/d     Sport, 1 pitch   
Liquid Acrobat   5.12a R     Trad, TR   
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Good ol' Steppenwolf.

Steppenwolf 5.9  CO : South Platte : ... : Turkey Perch
This is a very cool crack on the Turkey Perch just right of Gobbler. It goes straight up hand crack that widens to fist and a 6 foot wide section that is hard. Just above this wide pod is hands that gradually get smaller to steep, shallow corner with offsize fingers (crux) that dies out at a bulge. Make reachy move to big hold to "escape" this blank section and move up to perfect hands on a less steep slab to a large tree belay (100 feet I'd guess). This is very sustained the who...[more]   Browse More Classics in CO


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Lamonte at Turkey Perch.

BETA PHOTO: Lamonte at Turkey Perch.

The right side of Turkey Rock. Visible in the phot from left to right are: <br />Ragger Bagger 8+ - Disappearing behind the tree <br />Gobble Up 8 - The crack left of Luke <br />Steppenwolf 9 - The crack above Luke <br />Honky Jam Ass Crack 7 - The crack leading to the right side of the rounded block at the top center of the photo <br />Left Handed Jew 8 - The shallow left facing corner that passes behind the dead branch of the tree in the foreground <br />

BETA PHOTO: The right side of Turkey Rock. Visible in the phot...

From left to right: <br />Reefer Madness 8 - Just visible through the right edge of the tree <br />Ragger Bagger 8+ - The shaded left-facing corner <br />Gobble Up 8 - The crack above the left edge of the round boulder in the foreground <br />Steppenwolf 9 - Upper part visible above the boulder

BETA PHOTO: From left to right:
Reefer Madness 8 - Just visibl...

Cracks at Turkey Perch.

Cracks at Turkey Perch.

Jerry showing us where to be during the summer's daily thunderstorm.

Jerry showing us where to be during the summer's d...

Another beautiful day on the Perch.

Another beautiful day on the Perch.

Shade tree.

Shade tree.

Anyone know this line? We started in the cave, left of Moderate 2 climbing the right-facing corner. Then we crossed Mod 2 onto the horizontal Crack (mentioned elsewhere as Circle Jerk). Continued up to the second horizontal, then left to a layback crack. Finished with an interesting transition from the layback to smearing.

Anyone know this line? We started in the cave, le...

Most of the wall shows here.

Most of the wall shows here.


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By Jason Kaplan
From: Glenwood ,Co
Aug 24, 2008

Has anyone climbed the numerous cracks up-hill and right of LHJ? They seem short for the most part but also seem to have atleast a 15-30' section that looks really enjoyable. Does anyone know if they are worth your time and how hard they are?

By clymbrchk
Oct 10, 2010

Not sure if this belongs in the forum or in the route-beta area. For me, it feels like a beta Q, but please let me know if this is better served in the other area, so that I post up questions in the right place next time.

Anyhow, we top-roped a slabby, water run-off looking thing this weekend between Reefer Madness and Ragger Bagger and are just wondering if anyone knew anything about the route.

Feel free to post here or email me if the route history isn't worth spraying about on the web.

Thanks!