PRINT: Rock Climb Nobody Here But Us Chickens, Estes Park Valley

Nobody Here But Us Chickens

5.11d X, Sport, 100 ft (30 m),

Avg: 3.5 from 2 votes
FA: Craig Luebben and Lizz Grennard
Colorado > Estes Park Valley > Big Thompson Ca… > Combat Rock

Access Issue: Access issue - Monastery, Cedar Park, Combat Rock, etc. - open since 2023 Details

Update: per Bruce Hildenbrand: the area has been open since 2023.

Per JF M: as of May 2022, there is no signage on-site, nor information on the USFS webpage for the Cameron Peak Fire (nor on their published map of closures) that indicates the area is closed.

Per Bruce Hildenbrand: it appears that the Forest Service has closed access to all the climbing areas accessed via Storm Mountain Road (Monastery, Cedar Park, Combat Rock, etc.) until they can clear all the dangerous dead trees from the Cameron Peak fire.

I worked this issue with Eric Murdock at the AF, and it looks like the Forest Service picked Devil's Gulch Road as the southern boundary even though all the climbing areas on MP.com were not burned.

Description

The crux begins after you clip the second bolt and step on to match stick edges. From here, work your way up the final bolt, make a light clip, and move left and catch the diagonal seam above (a step through with the right foot seems appropriate to make the catch). You may find that up and slightly right is the ticket. Finish left of the cedar tree followed by an immediate right on to a large ledge.

Location

Begin about twenty feet left of the Diagonal and twenty feet right of Eight Clicks to Saigon. Rap from bolts at the top of the first pitch of Across Enemy Lines.

Protection

Three quickdraws; bolt anchor.

Not X if you bring a # 3 cam and some wires

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The crux section.

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allen simons

Pat, is this the one I worked on with you this summer or the one from last summer?
Al Sep 7, 2007

Patrick Ackerson
Loveland, CO

5.11d

Hi Allen; this is the route from last summer. Give me a call. Sep 7, 2007

Ken Duncan
Ft Collins, CO

5.11d

Certainly not X rated. Possibly PG. Feb 24, 2016