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Recent Ouray beta:

best hotel in town: Riverside Inn, payed $65 a night for a one bedroom w/ livingroom, fireplace and full kitchen (note: thank you note from Jared Ogden in the lobby)

best park feature: lead only area; 10 or so solid lines of WI 5 to 6 that is barely ever climbed

Conditions of the natural lines at the Skyline area and Dexter Slabs are great too. During the week there were very few people in the park and even on the weekend only the Classroom was really busy. Lead only area was wide open all week.

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Glad to hear there is a "lead-only" area now. This should drastically improve the situation when it is crowded! Wish it was there when I went! What section of the park is it? Everything downstream of the bridge? What happens when someone raps down and "chickens out" by not pulling their rope? Do they get an ice axe in the forehead? Who is monitoring this? Hopefully it's just casual and by honor only! DPP

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The lead only area covers about 30 feet to either side of the upper bridge. Once you're at the bottom, it's pretty hard to opt out. There was a large, greasy shit at the bottom, attesting to the difficulty of reaching facilities easily. You can walk back up the canyon towards the Schoolroom, but there's a spot where you have to negotiate a 15 foot steep/smooth slab, risking a fall forward into the drink if you go down too fast.

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