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Mungeclimber
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Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 27, 2015 - 07:06pm PT
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This looks promising?
Fort Robinson
Toadstool? one move at least, just to say I did?
Niobrara Canyon?
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - May 27, 2015 - 07:38pm PT
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after dinner bump
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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May 27, 2015 - 08:33pm PT
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I know they have a bunch of ice climbs above the niobrara. The "rock" looks pretty soft.
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Mungeclimber
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Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - May 27, 2015 - 10:21pm PT
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Mud-tooling?
Gives new meaning to a 'brown-point' ascent.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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May 27, 2015 - 10:42pm PT
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you're on your own... right a trip report...
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - May 28, 2015 - 10:40am PT
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Imagine a road trip, if you will, a place called Nebraska by any other name. You've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Aug 17, 2017 - 06:46pm PT
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The "Verm", a number of years ago went on a campaign to do a technical climb in every state. His criteria for a "technical climb" was not stringent. The climb had to be 5th class and at least 15 ft. high. John told me two states proved to be tough nuts to crack and required a lot of research and detective work. Those two states were Louisiana and, you guessed it, Nebraska...good luck!
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Aug 17, 2017 - 06:48pm PT
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on a recent middle country sojourn, I sought climbing in the Niobrara "Gorge".... YMMV but I would rather just climb choss elsewhere. I had a tough time finding anything worth ascent, much less the inevitable pick mattocking requisite to generate a semi-permanent handhold in that unconsolidated tephra yukk. and I like choss, especially the obscure. NoDak had WAAAAAy better climbing, no joke.
EDIT: NPS wild scenic river anticlimbing regs cramp the sh#t outta any attempt at ascent there.
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Nick Danger
Ice climber
Arvada, CO
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Aug 18, 2017 - 08:37am PT
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Same rock as makes up the Pawnee Buttes in northeastern Colorado. Scary stuff but doable. There is one technical route on West Pawnee Butte that has one move of aid (can clip slings to an old manky piton to make the move), then lower fifth class to lower angle scramble to summit. This looks steeper and more sustained, but probably just as loose and manky/hard to protect. FYI, all of this stuff in both western Nebraska and eastern Colorado is just the Laramide Rockies once removed. Post Laramide uplift the Rockies were subjected to massive erosion that created thousands of feet thick fanglomerates as far east as western Nebraska (and a penaplane surface currently preserved as flat-topped summits like that on Long's Peak). Subsequent uplift reactivated down-cutting into these huge alluvial fan deposits as well as rejuvenating uplift along the spine of the Rockies through Colorado and Wyoming; this set the stage for subsequent Pleistocene glacial erosion to create the alpine setting of the modern Rocky Mountains. This stuff is wicked cool geology, but wicked bad rock for climbing.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Aug 18, 2017 - 08:51am PT
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The Midwest and Prairie States comprise an annoying and rather large area that seperates the East Coast from the Rockies. Flying over that void is one thing, driving quite another.
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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Aug 18, 2017 - 09:43am PT
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I spent three years living in Bellevue NE..... thats 20 miles south of Omaha for those who care. I believe there is Rockclimbing if you were looking for some FA.... Most of Eastern NE is part of the Missouri River... anywhere from o miles across to about a 20 mile wide ancient river bottom topography.
Its not flat, go ride a bike around Bellevue, Norfolk or up around Yankton... and you will be surprised at how steep the hills are. I was not a climber when I lived there but I was a high school delinquent and we would skip school to go swimming in these quarry's. (much like in the movie Breaking Away)Quarry's exist all along the eastern side of the state and some of the cliffs formed have 60-80 foot drop off's.
[url="http://https://www.mountainproject.com/v/gitchie-manitou/106552179"]http://https://www.mountainproject.com/v/gitchie-manitou/106552179[/url]
This place is in Iowa but there are places like this around Bellevue.
So to Jim Donini.... get cracking on that road trip to Beautiful Nebraska.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 18, 2017 - 10:45pm PT
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guyman to the rescue
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F10
Trad climber
Bishop
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Aug 23, 2017 - 07:04pm PT
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It's been pretty flat driving along the I-80
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Aug 23, 2017 - 08:35pm PT
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yucca dune is kaput btw. mejor to just go do it. that shti makes the fishers feel like granite. no joke.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Aug 26, 2017 - 04:16pm PT
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Flying over that void is one thing, driving quite another. Ain't that the truth.
I drove it both directions this summer. The Scottsbluff area right at the SW corner has some interesting formations on not too chossy looking rock.
Get out there and report back.
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Apr 26, 2018 - 12:03am PT
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^^^ Sweet. Solid. Looks fun!
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