My buddy Aaron Porter leading Rosy - his first pitch in Eldo, temps were in the upper 20s. "That was scarier than El Cap."

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My buddy Aaron Porter leading Rosy - his first pitch in Eldo, temps were in the upper 20s. "That was scarier than El Cap."

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Unknown climber following P1 after unclipping the first bolt. The leader trailed a rope which is used to good effect protecting the second from taking a big swing.

Unknown climbers on the second pitch. Shot taken from the Fowler Trail across the canyon.

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Ben Pontecorvo

Sep 8, 2017

“My buddy Aaron Porter leading Rosy - his first pitch in Eldo, temps were in the upper 20s. "That was scarier than El Cap."”

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Patrick Kingsbury on the first pitch.

The late Derek Hersey soloing Rosy Crucifixion (5.10a), Eldorado Canyon.
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Photo by Beth Wald.

Pitch 1 - the traverse.

Mark Wilford, 1976.

Unknown climber following the downward crux moves beyond the second bolt.

Ryan "Hoagie" Sayers leading leading P1.

Joseffa Meir chasing the Sunset on Rosy Cruxifixion in May of Y2K. Photo by Tony Bubb.

Ryan seconding P1. <br>
One of my favorite pitches in the park. <3

Unknown climber following P1 after unclipping the first bolt. The leader trailed a rope which is used to good effect protecting the second from taking a big swing.

My buddy Aaron Porter leading Rosy - his first pitch in Eldo, temps were in the upper 20s. "That was scarier than El Cap."

Unknown climbers on the second pitch. Shot taken from the Fowler Trail across the canyon.

The first pitch, circa 1990.

Almost to the traverse on the last pitch.

Brad White at the 1st belay. My first time up Rosy, his 20 something-th time doing the route.

Unknown climber near the end of P1. Photo by Paul Rezucha from the Fowler Trail.

Taken from the belay after the traverse, awesome position, but not sure it deserves PG-13.

The late Newt Wheatly on the first pitch of Rosy Crucifixion taken by Bryan Bornholdt.

One of the best pitches in the entire canyon!

Kristie Arend sends pitch one!!! Photo by Dale Remsberg

Unknown climber nearing the top of P2 after linking P1 and P2. This and the next few photos were shot from the tree at the top of Slimey Spoon/Vertical Smile near the upper south edge of the Lower Ramp.

Adam halfway through this amazing line!

Cruising the first pitch.

Joseffa Meir steps up to follow on P1 of 'Rosy Cruxifixion (5.10)', On Eldo's Redgarden Wall. Photo by Tony Bubb, 2004.

Joseffa Meir on the crux of the second pitch of Rosy C. (lead as one pitch) Photo by Tony Bubb

If you look close enough, you can just BARELY make out his big grin. Job well done mate!

BrianB on the Rosy traverse. I could just reach to clip the 1st bolt...whew. Swapped leads with Bill Farrand. Nice route!

Rick Clark on the Rosie Crusifiction, Red <br>
Garden Wall. 5-17-2002 at the belay a <br>
standard shot I'm sure.<br>
Tough finger crack after the traverse for a <br>
Gunks traddie whos used to straight up <br>
horizontals and cracks you can shoulder <br>
jam. An exciting route.

Finishing up the traverse.

William is ecstatic after finishing pitch 3; his hardest lead since his psych-out fall!

Mark Sargent out on Rosy in 1983.

George Bell starting Rosy Crucifixion in 1983. Photo by Chris Brislawn.

Chris Bisch checking it out. He said 5.10 climbing is not considered onsighting, haha.

Quality climbing. Photo by AdamShep

Rosy, a dream come true!

Adam taking his first step into the abyss!

Sorry for posting this Adam, but it's a great shot!

The same move Derek Hersey is doing in the iconic pic of him soloing this by Beth Wald. Photo taken by my Mom!

Adam at the halfway point between both cruxes.

From here, you can rest it out before the last hard move or continue up and to the right on easier terrain.

Where the right foot is are some bomber foot holds. You can also do the splits here to reach the better foot holds on the other side. This is the crux in my opinion.

Adam topping out!

A beautiful, no hands rest before the second pitch.

The Rosy crux being done by AdamShep.

Still thinking it's all good on the start of Rosie...

Finishing on Rosie's 3rd pitch--almost home, but so far to go!

Joe showing some teeth...

Dan R. finding that following this pitch is also zesty.

This unknown climber following P1 is between the first and second bolts.

Peter Spindloe at the end of the first pitch of Rosy Crucifiction, photo by Craig Luke

Ashton leaving the 3rd pitch belay - picture courtesy of a nice gentleman on Ruper.

Joseffa Meir approaching the end of P1 of 'Rosy Cruxifixion (5.10)', On Eldo's Redgarden Wall. Photo by Tony Bubb, 2004.

On the traverse, Jay Eggleston.

Nice ass, but an even nicer lead up the start of pitch two. Shawn "sacks up" and takes it on.

Rosy Crucifixion climbs the prominent face in the center of the photo. The same unknown climber as in the previous photo can be seen just below dead center. Photo by Paul Rezucha from the Fowler Trail.

Unknown climber looking pretty small near the top of P2.

Christmas Day, 2005.

To the unidentified party behind us who were nice to let me take pictures of them! I have just a few more of interest, PM if you'd like me to email them.

Chris maybe halfway up the second pitch, linking it as one.

Unknown climber on Rosy.

Looking down from the top out at the Upper Ramp on pitch 3, super route.

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