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thedogfather
climber
Midwest
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Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 4, 2008 - 01:39pm PT
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Some pics of RRR. Great event with amazing climbing until the rain and wind on Sunday morning.
Pitch one of Frogland (Thursday)
The chockstone pitch of Frogland
Last Pitch of Frogland
Birdland's amazing last pitch (Friday)
Final hanging belay on Birdland (two ropes of two - Nat and me and Stefan and Ross)
Offwidth clinic (Saturday Clinic with Vera Schulte-Pelkum. I was the only male
in the class. Not a bad morning :)
Tent City
Dyno competition
They fed 1,100 people Saturday night
The DJ's roost
Weather moving in over Tunnel Vision. Stefan and Nat got up the first pitch
before they bailed. I didn't even get my shoes on!
Valley of Fire
Sunset in Valley of Fire
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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What's Birdland rated, that last pitch looks thin?
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jewedlaw
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Frogland and Birdland look awesome!
And OW clinic for girls, check. Hopefully next year isn't a bunch of guys expecting a bunch of girls...
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Laddie
Trad climber
Reno, NV
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Great pic from The Valley of Fire.
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Tahoe climber
Trad climber
a dark-green forester out west
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cool shots!
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thedogfather
climber
Midwest
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 4, 2008 - 03:50pm PT
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Last pitch of Birdland is not what it appears. It is mainly face climbing with a surprising crux at the anchors. The route is consistently steep and has good pro so it is a must do for moderates in my opinion.
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LithiumMetalman
Trad climber
cesspool central
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chockstone pitch on Frogland looks fantastic!
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maldaly
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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So does anyone else out there think that Red Rocks might be the best climbing area in America or the world? I love Boulder and Eldo is unquestionably my favorite area but RR has it all except for Yosemite walls.
Mal
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jewedlaw
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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RR is definitely a good climbing area, but it doesn't have it all. It's primarily face climbing, the rock can be brittle, and sometimes (not always) the approaches can be kind of long. Also, the loop road isn't open 24 hours?!
(Plus it ate my rope)
Joshua Tree is the king of short approaches.
Oh god I see a thread drift coming up.... Maybe start another thread?
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HighGravity
climber
Here, but will be there next week
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I agree with mal, I was up there for the party and did a day of trad, a day of sport, and bouldered the last. The best part was I infected my sport climbing friends with the idea of climbing trad. So many fun easy routes!
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10b4me
climber
hanging by a thread
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Mal,
RR is definitely a fun place to climb, but is not the best place in the country, or the world.
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thedogfather
climber
Midwest
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 6, 2008 - 09:55am PT
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I don't know anywhere else that you can get so many quality routes of over 4 pitches in the 5.6 to 5.8 range. I love the length of the pitches and the consistent quality in the range I now climb (5.6-5.9).
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maldaly
Trad climber
Boulder, CO
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So 10b4me, what is better and why?
This is going to be a fun discussion.
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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I agree with Mal. I'll have been climbing for fifty years as of this coming July, and I think Red Rock is one of the very best places in the country for multipitch trad climbing. I do wish so many other people hadn't figured this out too, though---you have to do some climbs like Crimson Chrysalis in full conditions in order to have anything remotely resembling a back-country experience.
On the other hand, it seems that you can still have the routes---in fact the whole canyon---on Windy Peak all to yourself on most days.
By the way Dog, I think the picture of Frogland in your post labeled as the first pitch is actually the third pitch.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Back in the early 70s, when I showed a few Boulder friends some slides of this new place we'd discovered, they were thinking (I learned much later ) "That rock looks like choss, why would anyone climb there?"
But at the same time I was thinking, "Maybe I shouldn't show these to anyone, keep the Red Rocks a secret for at least a few more years." So we didn't write up the early routes.
But that's all ancient history now.
The Velvet Wall with no bolts, no routes, nothing named:
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thedogfather
climber
Midwest
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 6, 2008 - 11:58am PT
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rgold, you're right it is the third pitch. I lead the odd number pitches I assumed it was pitch one but I skipped over a couple. Thanks. Here is a pitch one pic with same perspective.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Its Valley of Fire,.. shhhhhhhhhhh!
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Gordon
Trad climber
South Florida
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Years ago, I climbed Frogland with a small bullet pack on my back. Below the slot on the chockstone pitch, I placed a piece and then climbed up into the triangular hole. I made two or three attempts to get through but got stuck each time. It just wasn't going to go...
I backed off, stemmed below the hole, and considered what to do. I girth-hitched a sling to my belay loop and then, with one hand, fought to remove the damn pack without losing all the slings I had over my shoulder. Of course, one foot then went seriously "sewing machine" on me as I struggled to clip the pack to the sling. Grumbling aloud, I then negotiated the slot as if possessing the world's largest scrotum. My partner nearly peed himself laughing below. I should have just dropped the pack on his head!
Not much of a story, but I still chuckle thinking about it...
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
On my way to Boulder
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Nice Dogfather! I know that generating these TRs is time consuming. I think that these are some of the best parts of ST.com. I am now shamed into finally writing a TR of my recent trip to the SE - the reason I wasn't at RR this year.
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tenesmus
Trad climber
slc
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redrocks is my favorite place to climb. I love that people think its only a face climbing area. but that's just if you got on only Urioste routes. Unless I'm mistaken its a pretty big place.
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