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Left Infirmary Slab
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Access Issue: MM 23-29.5 - now ended daily CO 7 highway closure/delays
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Per Kai Bouwman: the daily CO 7 highway closure/delay access issue is no longer a problem according to CDOT the construction finished as of Nov. 11, 2022.
From CDOT: Colorado Highway 7 is closed daily from MP 23-29.5. Motorists can only travel through the area between 6-8 am and 4-7 pm. During these timeframes, pilot cars will lead alternating one-way travel. Drivers should plan for delays, and this schedule will remain in place through Memorial Day 2022.
During the closure, motorists need to take US 36 to CO 7.
Access Issue: Private Property - the area is CLOSED!
Details
Per Matt B: this entire area (including Upper Infirmary Slabs) is on private property. Check USFS maps, and you'll see a rectangular chunk of private property just off the road at the beginning of Coffin Top Gulch. This unfortunately includes the beginning of the Coffintop Trail as well. As it stands, the landowner does not want climbers on his property, so these crags should be avoided.
Description
Left Infirmary Slab has two 5.8 trad/slab routes that are really only notable if you've already made the hike to Upper Infirmary Slab and want to get some more routes in. They're longer routes, but the cruxes are at the start and the rest of the climbing is really easy. Scramble down the right side of the formation to descend.
Getting There
As for Upper and Lower Infirmary Slabs, drive 5.1 miles up the canyon, and park at the pullout on the left (best to drive a little further and turn around at the turn off to the Forest Service Ranger cabins). Either hike up the trail to Upper Infirmary Slab and rockhop/bushwack 100 yards west (climber's left) and slightly down to the base of the slab OR hike up the road part way back to the cabins and the lower angle rockfall area and hike up the hillside trending up and right straight to the base.
Access Issue: MM 23-29.5 - now ended daily CO 7 highway closure/delays
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