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Naked Woman Climber High on Mushrooms Rescued Off Third Flatiron

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:54:42 +0000

Correction to this Story As an addendum to the story below, as Steve "Crusher" Bartlett notes in the comments, the young lady was not, in fact, rock climbing under the influence of magic mushrooms but was instead hiking. As often occurs when reporting these situations, the news media, in this case the Boulder newspaper, as well as the Boulder County Sheriff's Department had said that she was climbing when she was actually hiking near the First Flatiron. Also as Malcolm Daly points out, the Third Flatiron is currently closed until mid-summer for raptor nesting.

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It's Tick Season: Watch for Ticks When Climbing

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:23:34 +0000

I was climbing at Shelf Road in southern Colorado the other day. While leading the last route of the day, I looked down and noticed a tiny critter on my bare leg. After clipping the next bolt, I asked my belayer to "Take" and hold me on the rope. On closer inspection, the critter was a tick looking to find its next free blood-sucking meal. I promptly flicked it off. When we got back to the truck, we emptied all of packs and checked our climbing gear and then our clothes and hair to make sure that no tick hitchhikers would be heading home with us.

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Replacing a Worn Anchor Hanger at Garden of the Gods

Wed, 08 May 2013 01:22:30 +0000

This morning I went out to the Garden of the Gods with Brian Shelton of Front Range Climbing Company to replace a very worn bolt hanger on one of the two anchors bolts at the end of the first pitch of West Point Crack, a popular 5.7 face climb on South Gateway Rock in the Garden of the Gods, a Colorado Springs' park.

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Fight on Mt. Everest: Climbers Behaving Badly

Sat, 04 May 2013 19:55:13 +0000

On Saturday, April 27, an alternation between about 100 Sherpas and three western climbers--Ueli Steck from Switzerland, Simone Moro from Italy, and English photographer Jonathan Griffith--escalated into a brawl at 24,500-foot Camp 2 on Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world. The Sherpas threw punches and rocks at the trio, who only escaped with their lives after other climbers, including American Melissa Arnot, stood between the Sherpas and the climbers.

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Layton Kor: American Climbing Legend Passes Away

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:37:45 +0000

Layton Kor, one of the best and most famous American rock climbers of the 20th century, passed away last Sunday, April 21, at age 74 after a long illness in Kingman, Arizona.

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Stettner Brothers Climb America's Hardest Route...in 1927

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 17:44:39 +0000

In mid-September in 1927, Joe and Paul Stettner rode motorcycles for five days and a thousand miles across muddy dirt highways from Chicago to sample rock climbs in Colorado's Front ...

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BoldLeaders Go Rock Climbing in Colorado Springs Park

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:00:33 +0000

At Front Range Climbing Company, the climbing trips we look forward to guiding every year are the groups of young people from other parts of the world that gather in Colorado to build relationships and learn leadership skills and self awareness through the BoldLeaders program, which is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. The intent of these trips, noted on their website, "is to invent new reference points and vocabularies for how people work together, while allowing for individual perspective." The trips are funded by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

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Dog Rappels Off Morning Glory Bridge Near Moab

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:31:09 +0000

Every dog lover wants to take their pooch up in the mountains and even on the rocks. Darrin Reay, a climbing guide with Front Range Climbing Company in Colorado Springs, is, however, taking his dog Karma for more than a mere walk in the park.

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Colorado Avalanche Victim Survives 3-Hour Burial

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:52:15 +0000

What's it like to be buried alive by an avalanche? Alex White, a 24-year-old skier who survived entombment on Cameron Pass in northern Colorado, can tell you. Buried in snow with just the bottoms of his boots grazing the surface, White spent about three hours in the snow before being rescued. "The last thing I remember thinking was that I was going to die there, honestly," he told The Denver Post. "And aside from a few bursts of panic, it was really kind of peaceful."

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10 Tips to Place Better Nuts: Learn Climbing Skills

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:19:09 +0000

Nuts, simply various-sized wedges and shapes of metal, are simple but effective climbing tools used to protect traditional routes and to create anchors. You need to learn how to place secure nuts to become a safe and competent climber. If you don't learn and practice nut-placing skills, both you and your climbing partner will be less safe on the rock.

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