Weekend in Red Rocks

[TeleRoss]

spent a few days in Red Rocks variously climbing, feeling sick, sleeping a ton, hiking around the canyons, drinking, climbing some more, and generally trying to avoid the strip. Climbed a bit at the first pullout, pine creek canyon, deep in oak creek canyon and in calico hills. Awesome weekend! Definitely want to spend more time in the area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[genepires]

lucky dog, you got to see the sheep. I lived there for 9 months and also made 5 trips to the area before and after, and I only saw the sheep one time. was that deep in oak canyon?

[lancegranite]

Did you enjoy the inspirational messages on L29's bolt hangers?

My personal favoirte: "rad"

[TeleRoss]

Yeah the sheep were up on the prow of rock that forks oak creek canyon. Pretty cool. Big males, one had a huge set of horns on him. They just stared at us for a bit before clamberin off.

[TeleRoss]

No I missed them. Damn. Wish I had noticed those. What are some of the other ones? are they actually etched into the hangers or just written on with a pen or something?

You could write a decent sized novel if you wrote one word on every bolt that's on that route.

sweet route though for sure!

 

[lancegranite]

The words are stamped, I saw some high on the route, maybe the 5.9 pitch?

[AJScott]

schweeet! I got to see a couple of those sheep when I was down there last november while scrambling around on one of the limestone peaks above red rocks. We got in a race up the peak...they won. I really wanted to make it down there this year. red rocks is sick! nice photos.