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2002 Climbing Log

January 6 - Bouldered in Poudre Canyon with Dos. A little dicey crossing the river ice!

January 9 - Met Bob at Big Thompson Ice before work. We played around for a while on the upper flow.

January 14 - Climbed at Loch Vale with Judy. We had a fun day. I soloed up the easy flow and set up a top rope on a harder mixed climb. We also ran into Melissa and Elisa from Boulder.

January 20 - Camping in Glacier Gorge with Guillaume, Jennifer and Jason. Hiked in on Friday night after work. I soloed the right flow of the Black Lake ice slabs WI2+ and set a top rope. We ran into Tracy North by chance and he and his friend climbed with us for a while. Guillaume and Jennifer climbed the West Gully.

January 21 - Jason hurt his calf and we spent a leisurely day hiking out while Guillaume and Jennifer climbed Duncan's Dinky Drip WI 4+/5-.

January 26 - Climbed at Hidden Falls with Lisa and Koren. We had a fun day of cragging. I led a rock pitch to the right of the right flow and we later top roped the main flow. Lisa had to leave early. This was Koren's first time ice climbing and she did laps on the main flow!! We also met and climbed with Myke from www.climbingboulder.com. 

January 27 - An almost EPIC day! Lisa and I climbed the West Gully WI4 above Black Lake in Glacier Gorge. The climb went smoothly but we were too slow. We got benighted while still high on the mountain. Lisa did not feel well. 600 feet of steep down climbing on snow got us back to Black Lake and safety. Then we hiked 6 miles back to the truck. 16.5 hours total.

February 2 - Climbed at Loch Vale with Lisa and Koren and Brenda. We did not climb much but we had fun top roping on a hard mixed section that started with a dead log start. Koren did amazingly well for her second time ice climbing!

February - 3 Climbed the left flow of Columbine Falls above Peacock Pool in with Lisa. Solid WI3 near the top. This is a nice ice cragging area.

February 10 - Climbed Long's Peak via the Flying Dutchman with Andrew and Jarred. Lisa started the day with us but turned around above tree line because her feet were too cold. The route was mostly snow climbing with one short pitch of WI2 that offered very little good protection. 16+ hours total.

February 17 - You can't always be motivated. Guillaume and I got up at 1:30 am, drove to the Long's Trailhead, Hiked the 5 miles to the base of Long's Peak with the intention of climbing Alexander's Chimney and then decided that we did not really feel like climbing so we went  home. Nothing like a 10 mile hike before 9am to get the blood flowing. Of course, later in the day I felt bad for not climbing but that's the breaks. You gotta want it!

February 18 - Climbed in the gym with Koren, Deb, Diane, and Guillaume.

February 23 - Climbed at Palisade with Andrew and Jason. Jason's second time multi-pitch rock climbing. We climbed the normal first two pitches. I fell leading the second pitch... again! :) Then I led a variation of the stepped, dihedral to the left of the Mini-D. It was really windy and I was almost blown off a stance high on the pitch. Wowza!

February 24 - Toproped at Duncan's Ridge with Koren. We saw two Bald Eagles fly past us! :)

March 2 - Climbed at Hidden Falls with Lisa. We climbed the main flow a couple times and then dry-tooled climbed a nice corner to the right. The corner was fairly hard. We both took top rope falls before we got up it.

March 3 - Climbed at Big Thompson Ice with Lisa. We climbed the upper flow. The place was packed. A group of people from the CSU Outdoor Adventure Program showed up after us and scared us with their poor safety practices as the "taught" others in their group how to ice climb.

March 6 - Climbed at The Gym with Koren, Guillaume and Jennifer.

March 9 - Headed to Lincoln Falls in Summit County with Koren, Guillaume and Jennifer. A fun day. Guillaume led a completely detached pillar while I led a "safer" flow to the right WI3. We both went on to climb other lines in the area. I soloed the Bowling Alley WI2 but opted out of the third pitch and traversed off to the right. That night we slept in a tent (read: cold tent) and the next day we all skied at Copper Mountain.

March 14 - Climbed at The Gym with Koren, Guillaume and Jennifer.

March 17 - Climbed Calypso (5.6)  in Eldorado Canyon with Koren. It was our first time climbing on a multi-pitch route together and it was Koren's first multi-pitch route ever! :) Forgot the camera though, bummer.

March 19 - Climbed at Inner Strength with Koren.

March 22 - Left work early and went bouldering at the Piano Boulders. (across the Dam from the Torture Chamber)

March 24 - Went for a short trail run with Koren up to  Rotary Park where we bouldered for a couple of hours. I then went to Lumpy and ran up to Batman Pinnacle and free soloed Batman and Robin 5.6. I ran back to the car for an car-to-car time of 1:36.

March 25 - Hiked into Odessa Gorge below Notchtop Mountain and climbed Grace Falls with Lisa, Guillaume and Jennifer. I led one pitch of WI3 and spend the rest of the day top roping harder lines. Guillaume led a pitch of WI4+ and then climbed an insanely overhanging mixed line on toprope. Grace Falls is a great place! The ice was perfect and looked as though no one had climbed it all season.

March 27 - Climbed at Inner Strength with Koren, Jason, and Kevin.

March 28 - Bouldered with Kurt at Sylvan Dale ranch road at lunch. I found a fun little face problem. V1+

March 29 - Had to go to Boulder for work and got off at 3. Went bouldering at Flagstaff Mountain. Worked a bunch of problems in the Monkey Traverse area and climbed the 20-foot V2 crack on the Capstan which turned out to be quite exciting. :)

March 30 - Climbed 7 Yutes mountain with Koren on telemark skies. This was my first time on tele skies and gave a mediocre showing. :) I was fine going down the steeper, open slopes but the uphill on skins and downhill through the tight trees was a little rough on me. It was nice to get out for a day to play around Cameron Pass with Koren. :) Terrific views of the west side of the Never Summer range and Rawah range.

March 31 - Climbed with Lisa all day at Palisade. I FINALLY got the second pitch without taking any falls! 5.10b That had been a long time coming. I led the first pitch of the headwall but had to aid a long section. 5.9+/C1 We then climbed an alternate line down low 5.8 and toproped the left side crack system on the headwall. 5.10 It was great to spend a day on warm rock with no one around. I am glad summer is coming!!!

April 4 - Went to Carter Lake to boulder at lunch with Kurt. Then went back to Carter Lake after work and bouldered with Jason, Guillaume, and Jennifer. It was a good day. I got the somewhat scary overhanging cave V2 problem for the first time and Jenny put her fear aside and climbed some of the higher problems in the area.

April 6 - Climbed at Lumpy we Lisa, Guillaume and Jennifer. Guillaume and Jennifer climbed Fat City 5.10c to Cheap Date 5.10b. Lisa and I climbed J-Crack (5.9)on the Right Book. It was a really fun day on a sensational route. I opted out of the 5.10a traverse on the second pitch and instead aided the 5.11+ crack at C1. Lisa led the first pitch and the last pitch, which was a nice 5.7 line up through a small overlap and into a chimney. This is one of the best routes I have done at Lumpy. No wonder it is a classic.

April 7 - Climbed on the West Ridge in Eldorado Canyon with Lisa, Guillaume and Jennifer. We all climbed Long John Wall 5.8 in two parties of two. I had climbed this route before and found it to be a little different on the sharp end. :) This is a really fun route with multiple cruxes and a little bit of everything from face climbing to cracks to chimneys and even an off-width in which I pulled on a cam. Oh the shame. :)

April 11 - Bouldered at the Piano Boulders with Guillaume and Jennifer. I had a good day. I climbed the right side of the overhanging warm-up rock and I climbed the high face with the small pocket crux at the top. Both are fairly committing routes but I had a good spot from Guillaume and Jennifer and a crash pad. Guillaume climbed the Piano boulder on his second try!!

April 13 - Climbed Seam Rock with Koren. It was a fun day out together. I had been thinking about free soloing that route but, after this outing, I am not so sure. :) Koren climbed really well!

April 14 - Toproped at Duncan's Ridge with Koren and Jason. We climbed the offwidth in the detached column as well as the face to the left and the south-east side face. Good fun. Saw what we think was an Osprey.

April 16 - Bouldered at Greyrock Bouldering Area with Jason. We also toproped the crack which took a few tries. I climbed the problem to the right of the crack and got the whole traverse for the first time! Yahoo! Rests are your friend. :)

April 17 - Bouldered at the Piano boulders with Guillaume and Jennifer after work. Climbed the Mantle problem as well as a variation (left) of the high face with the pocket crux.

April 18 - Bouldered in Big Thompson Canyon (The Narrows) with Kurt at lunch.

April 21 - Bouldered at the Piano Boulders with Jason and Cody. I showed Jason the face climbing way to climb the mantle problem and he promptly told me I was cheating. :) Good Stuff!

April 24 - Bouldered alone at the Piano Boulders.  I climbed farther to the North than normal and found some new problems.

April 27 - Skied into Hidden Treasure Yurt with Koren for the weekend. We had a hell of a time finding the place. We lost the trail, bushwhacked through the forest with skis on our pack, and found that the GPS coordinates that we were given were WRONG!

April 28 - Skiing at the HT Yurt. We had a great weekend and managed to get some good turns above treeline and in a couple nice pockets in the trees. We also skinned up to top of the ridge on New York Mountain and were rewarded with amazing views of the next basin and a huge cornice that followed the ridgeline for a mile or more.

April 30 - Bouldered and toproped in Big Thompson Canyon (the Narrows) with Kurt and Milo. I was able to retrieve a 00 Metolius TCU from a crack.

May 2 - Bouldered at Greyrock Bouldering Area with Jason, Cody and Koren. Koren rode her bike up the canyon to meet us. The traverse seems easy now that I have it wired. :) I felt strong and climbed most of the problems there this day. (not the crack though)

May 4 - Bouldered at a new area called Big Elk with Jason, Tricia, Nicole, and Vance. This is a terrific area with many great problems below V5. Must go back there!

May 5 - Bushwhacked around Palisade Mountain with Koren trying to find Cyclops Slab. We eventually found the rock only to find that the Gillette book was completely wrong. There were no sport routes like the book suggested. We toproped the face which went at 5.11. Koren climbed really well!

May 6 - Met Guillaume at the Piano boulders. I was unmotivated and did not climb well. It was still nice to get out though. Dose got a bad thorn in his paw which proved impossible to remove.

May 9 - Went back to Big Elk with Jason. We met Guillaume, Jennifer and Lisa there for some after work fun. We spent most of our time at the Sanctuary. That place really kicks ass!

May 15 - Scouted a new bouldering area up the Poudre Canyon but turned around due to cactus/rattlesnake danger combined with the sandals I was wearing. I then headed up to the Greyrock Bouldering Area for a while with Dose. I am finding more and more rests in that traverse.

May 18 - Climbed at Palisade with Koren and Guillaume.  Guillaume on-sighted the normal route on the Mini-D calling it 5.10d. KOREN CLIMBED THE ENTIRE MINI-D! This was her third multipitch climb and she did an amazing job. She freed the 10b and 10c pitches with a few hangs and taught herself how to how to French-free on the final pitch 350 feet in the air! I was truly impressed!! Jason met us later in the day and we camped.

May 19 - Climbed at the Mini-D again with Koren, Guillaume and Jason. Guillaume met us there later and Koren went for a bike ride in the morning so Jason and I climbed a line to the right of the normal route on the lower apron to the rappel tree. We then took turns on the toprope that we had left in place the day before. After a day of climbing I brilliantly left my rope on the ledge half way up and had to do a traversing pitch to get it at the end of the day when we all wanted to go home.

May 25 - Climbed at Combat Rock with Koren. We climbed the first pitch of No More War 5.10a and decided to call it a day. It was windy and cuddling on the couch was sounding too good to pass up. :) Koren did a great job on-sighting (on second) this climb!  

May 26 - Climbed at Cat Slab in Clear Creek Canyon with Koren, Guillaume. KOREN LED HER FIRST CLIMB! 5.7 We eventually climbed all but a few of the climbs in this area. Most of the route names are taken from the musical Cats.

May 27 - Climbed at Combat Rock with Guillaume. We climbed Nuclear Polka 5.10a and Lizard Warriors 5.11b. Guillaume led the had first pitches of each route and I led the second pitches.

May 30 - Bouldered at The Beach in Big Thompson Canyon with Jason after work. Got schooled for the most part.

June 1  - Climbed at Shelf Road with Guillaume. We spent the day at The Dark Side. I had a goal of leading 5.10c but fell 4 times in the process. Shelf Road is a neat place. Guillaume climbed well as usual.

June 2 - Camped at Shelf Road and climbed at The Bank, The Dark Side, and Contest Wall this day with Guillaume and Jason. Great climbing! (especially at Contest Wall) The Iron Mountain fire broke out this day and burned 7,000 acres south-west of Shelf before the day was finished.

June 4 - Bouldered at the Greyrock Crag with Jason. First time I did every problem there including the traverse back and forth.

June 5 - Climbed at Combat Rock with Guillaume and Keith (visiting from Tulsa). We climbed the Old Bolt Route 5.8 to the upper roof pitch of the Diagonal 5.9-. We then climbed the Tree Roof (Schoolmarms) 5.8. We ended the day with the first pitch of Saigon to Pearl Harbor 5.10a.

June 8 - Climbed Loose Ends 5.9 with Lisa. This is one of the best routes I have done at Lumpy. We climbed up to Fang Ledge from below the Cave and ended up under a difficult roof problem which barred us from the summit. After a quick attempt to free the crux, and an even quicker fall, I aided past at C0.

June 13 - Climbed at the Ironclads with Koren. We climbed at Poacher's Rock. Koren climbed beautifully again, cranking 5.10. It was really crowded but we still had a good time. 

June 14 - Climbed on Sundance Buttress at Lumpy with Lisa. We climbed Mainliner 5.9 and then climbed the first pitch of Guillotine 5.10c. Guillotine was REALLY hard for the rating and we ended up aiding up the first pitch and then rappelling back to the base where we sat around for a couple hours. This was a great day!!!

June 20 - Lisa and I were rained out of our plans to climb the Window. Since we were up at 2:30am anyway, we decided to hike up to the Divide and try to bag Haden Spire. It turned out to be to misty to even find the spire in the morning so spend the day lounging around on the tundra and hiking up Snowdrift Peak.

June 27 - Soloed Long's Peak via Kiener's Route. This was a great day. I had been wanting to solo Long's and this route for a long time!

June 30 - Climbed on the Bookmark Pinnacle at Lumpy with Guillaume. We climbed Backflip 5.9 and Romulan Territory 5.10a. Both routes were excellent. RT in particular has some amazing climbing in right facing dihedrals.

July 5-7 - Backpacked into Wild Basin with Koren intending to climb the Central Ramp (III, 5.8) with Koren. A storm hit us when we were high on the face and we had to retreat. We left close to $300 in gear to get down which I later retrieved. This was a great weekend! I should have picked an easier route for Koren's first backcountry climb though.

July 10 - Climbed at Combat Rock with Toni. We had not seen each other in a long time and it was nice to hang out. We climbed the tree roof to the last pitch of the Diagonal.

July 12 - Went back to Mount Alice with Lisa and Guillaume and retrieved my gear from the Central Ramp. This was one long day. After tagging the summit of Alice, we hiked down Boulder Grand Pass and then back to the Wild Basin trailhead. We did the climb car-car in just over 18 hours. I had a great time this day. Guillaume led all the pitches and I found it kind of nice to not have any stress about the day. I still prefer to lead though. :)

July 16 - Climbed at Lumpy on The Pear with Vance, Guillaume and Jennifer. We climbed Right Dihedral 5.9 and Sibling Rivalry 5.9+. Both were good routes. SR was a little spicy for a "sport route". We got rained off the ridge. I rappelled through a waterfall. :)

July 18 - Climbed the smooth sport route in Big Thompson Canyon with Kurt to help him retrieve some gear. 

July 25 - Climbed at Combat Rock with Bob. We climbed No More War 5.10a and GI Joe 5.9+. I feel all over the first moves of GI Joe. Now I will have to go back and climb that thing with some style! It was fun to hang out and climb with Bob. :)

July 30 - Climbed Hallett Peak with Jason. We climbed a variation of Jackson Johnson (III, 5.9). This was Jason's first backcountry climb and only his 5th multipitch climb ever!  This was also the first 5.9 I led in the backcountry. :)

August 1 - Climbed a hard sport route in the huge cave left of East of Eden in the Poudre Canyon with Jason. 

August 4 - Climbed the Northeast Ridge of Arrowhead Peak with Koren. We had intended to climb the East face but I got us off route. It was a really fun day though and Koren climbed like a rock star. :)

August  6 -  Climbed a sport route in the Narrows of Big Thompson Canyon with Jason.

August 8 - Climbed the first two pitches of Melvin's Wheel at Lumpy with Rob and Kurt before work. What a great way to start the day. :)

August 15 - Bouldered at the Piano Boulders with Jason. There were a lot of people there with crash pads so we did all the highball problems.

August 13 - Climbed the westernmost sport route in the Narrows of Big Thompson Canyon with Kurt.

August 18 - Climbed a possible first ascent on the West Face of Long's with Koren while camping in the Boulderfield for a couple days. Koren's Rain Dance 5.7.

August 24 - Climbed the Casual Route 5.10a on the Diamond with Guillaume. I had been waiting to do this climb for a long time and it was worth the wait. This is perhaps the best route I have ever climbed! We left the trailhead at 2am and returned 14 hours later.

August 31 - Climbed at  Combat Rock with Kurt. We climbed the Tree Roof 5.8, Arkansas Patriot 5.9+, and Rambo Santa 5.7.

September 2 - Climbed the South Face 5.8 of the Petit Grepon with Lisa. We had a blast. Lisa led a couple pitches that challenged her. I must say that this is the most spectacular summit I have ever stood upon. 20 feet long, 6 feet wide, and 800 feet down! :)

September 14 - Climbed at the North 40 with Koren. Andrew and Leigh met us at Ridge 02 and climbed beside us for most of the day. We started out with a first ascent of a flared diagonal chimney that led to a slightly overhanging hand crack we named Slither 5.9+. Then we climbed a flared squeeze chimney that I had attempted before as a first ascent. Andrew had bailed me out the last time and named the route BPO (Brad Pussed Out). However he promised to rename it if I led it so it is now called Brad Bought a Big Cam 5.8. Then we headed to the north side where Koren and I put up another FA up a right facing dihedral and over a couple roofs. This route was named Play It Again 5.10a. We rounded out the day with a quick run up The Ramp 5.8.

September 15 - Climbed at Ridge 02 with Andrew while Koren went running. We climbed Andrews new route which I felt was about 5.9+ and then I led Crystal Highway 5.11a after taking repeated falls at the crux. These are definitely two of the best routes on the ridge.

September 21 - Climbed Femp 5.9 at Lumpy with Kurt and Rob. The second pitch of this climb is really nice. Kurt and Rob had found the second pitch challenging but did really well considering that Kurt was on his third multipitch climb and Rob has been living in Texas and not climbing at all. 

September 22 - Climbed at Combat with Lisa. We climbed a variation of Pearl Harbor 10b and No More War 10a. I had a really fun time this day. It's too bad that Lisa's work schedule prevents us from climbing as often as we used to.

September 29 - Climbed at Lumpy with Koren, Guillaume and Jennifer. Koren and I climbed Short Circuit 5.9 on Lightning Rock and then the first pitch of Checkerboard Crack 5.9 on Checkerboard Rock. After that, Koren had to leave and I toproped Ziggie's Brother Hank 10b which Guillaume had led. This was yet another fine day at Lumpy and I got to climb two new formations.

October 3 - Climbed at the Little Twin Owls at Lumpy with Lisa, Jenny and Guillaume. Lisa led the ZigZag crack 5.8+ and we toproped the 11.a finger crack,  which Guillaume flashed, the .11a southeast face which Guillaume and Jenny flashed and Kneecatcher 5.7 which everyone flashed.

October 10 - Climbed in Logan Canyon, Utah with Koren. This was her first day in town and we went climbing! :) The limestone is like Shelf Road and took some getting used to. We climbed 6 sport routes leading up to 10a/b and toproping up to 11b.

October 11 - I had to drive back to Fort Collins this day. We headed up Logan Canyon but only climbed a little bit. I led a 10a and toproped an .11 and then we sat by the river for a while before I left. :(

October 19 - Climbed with Andrew and Matt at the North 40. We bolted the backside slab route and installed a rappel station above Crystal Highway. We also climbed Stitches Chimney to Bushes. 

October 20 - Still at the secret spot with Andrew and Matt. Matt put up a new line near the leaning boulder. I seconded him and fell when a hold broke. He then climbed the hard hand crack on to the left of Stitches Chimney for its first free ascent.

October 24 - Boulder at the Piano Boulders with Jason

November 2 - Climbed the third Flatiron with Koren, Guillaume and Jennifer.

November 9 - Climbed in Eldo with Lisa. We climbed Ruper 5.8 and took the Rover variation 5.9 on the first pitch. It was really nice to be climbing with Lisa again!

November 15 - Utah with Jason. We climbed Otto's Route 5.8+ in Colorado National Monument. This was my first ever sandstone tower!

November 16 - Still in Utah. Climbed at Indian Creek with Jason. On Supercrack Buttress we climbed a few lines including 3AM crack and Incredible Hand Crack.

November 17 - Still in Utah. Climbed the Kor-Ingalls Route 5.9 on Castleton Tower in Castle Valley.

November 22 - Climbed at Lumpy with Andrew. We climbed Endless Crack 5.9 on the Book. I led the 9s variation of the first pitch which was REALLY exciting and we finished on the 9+ finish. This was one of the best routes I have done at Lumpy. Truly Stellar.

November 28 - Utah with Koren!! :) This was our first day in Moab and we rode the Slickrock bike trail. This is the best mountain bike ride ever . We then found a nice Thanksgiving diner at the Red Cliff Lodge thanks to Koren. :)

November 29 - Still in Utah. Koren and I slept in and climbed in the afternoon at Potash road on Wall Street. We climbed a bunch of routes including A Fist Full of Potash, Flakes of Wrath, and a .12b that I got on by mistake (on toprope).

November 30 - Still in Utah. Koren and I climbed at Indian Creek. We didn't really climb much though. We both climbed Twin Cracks and then I led Gorilla Crack with a lot of aid.

December 1 - Still in Utah. Koren and I climbed Ancient Art 5.9 C0 in the Fisher Towers. I have to go back there and climb one of the bigger towers! Maybe a solo of the Kingfisher?

December 5 - Climbed at Duncan's with Jason. We toproped the roof at the top of the ridge and the concave overhangs to the right.

December 9 - Bouldered with Dos at the Piano Boulders.

December 10 - Bouldered with Dos at the Piano Boulders.

December 12 - Climbed at Hidden Falls with Lisa. I led the main flow which was dripping wet using rock pro on the left side. We then toproped the small flow on the right which was not really in. Lisa was happy with her new gear.

December 23 - Hiked around City of Rocks in the snow with Koren. I tried to boulder in my Super Mountain boots but it wasn't pretty. :)

December 22 - Bouldered at the gym in Logan with Koren.