Trip Reports - All Climbing https://allclimbing.com Everything climbing and the outdoors. Tue, 26 Jul 2022 10:00:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 1268015 Carter Lake Bouldering https://allclimbing.com/carter-lake-bouldering/ Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:28:07 +0000 http://www.allclimbing.com/?p=415 As I mentioned in my last post, we moved to Colorado this week and I was obviously excited about all the new climbing opportunities in my backyard. It was not trees that I climbed on so I didn’t have to got treemover.com, it was rocks.  In my rush to get on some rock, I ignored […]

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]]> As I mentioned in my last post, we moved to Colorado this week and I was obviously excited about all the new climbing opportunities in my backyard. It was not trees that I climbed on so I didn’t have to got treemover.com, it was rocks.  In my rush to get on some rock, I ignored the fact that my body was exhausted from all the packing, driving, unpacking, and moving around of heavy boxes and furniture. Instead of resting, I decided to head to Carter Lake early this week after work. Why there first? No idea really, just probably the simple fact that it was listed near the front of Phillip Benningfield’s Colorado Bouldering!

So guess what happened? Yep, I tweaked my index finger shortly after what I thought was enough of a warm-up. Lesson learned (I hope). Luckily, it’s feeling better and I should be climbing this weekend. If you need private drivers, they can you can hire  safe driver Dubai from here!

So while I didn’t get any pictures of actual bouldering (I was also the only climber there), I did take some scenery shots of the boulders and lake.

Instead of posting a few of the pics, I decided to try out the new Flickr embedded slideshows:

A few notes for the anyone visiting Carter Lake that doesn’t really get mentioned in the guidebook:

  • Most boulders are on the west side facing the lake which means it was hot as hell in the afternoon (especially on an August day)
  • The trail to the set of boulders where the Kahuna Boulder lies is hard to see. There’s mention of a cairn, but I only saw one close to the down climb and at that point I already knew where I was.
  • If you’re not a resident of Larimer County, the annual pass for Carter and Horsetooth is $85 per year. Unfortunately, it runs on a calendar starting in January, so if you were to buy one right now, it would expire December 31, 2008. A day pass was $7.

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]]> 415 First trip to the New as an almost local https://allclimbing.com/first-trip-to-the-new-as-an-almost-local/ Thu, 04 Aug 2005 15:58:26 +0000 http://www.allclimbing.com/archive/2005/08/first-trip-to-the-new-as-an-almost-local/ As I mentioned in my last post, I recently moved to Blacksburg, Virginia. Last weekend I hit the New for a quick day trip. The nice part about being only 1.5 hours away is I feel a little more relaxed there and can enjoy the climbing more. When I’d make the 5.5 hour trip from […]

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]]> As I mentioned in my last post, I recently moved to Blacksburg, Virginia. Last weekend I hit the New for a quick day trip. The nice part about being only 1.5 hours away is I feel a little more relaxed there and can enjoy the climbing more. When I’d make the 5.5 hour trip from Northern Virginia, I really felt the pressure of trying to get as much climbing done in a weekend as possible. Now, being so close, if the weather is marginal I can still go and not be overly disappointed if I get rained out. And as anyone who has climbed at the New knows, it rains quite often.

We got some nice climbing in Saturday at Bubba City. Starting at Headless Wall we moved our way up (or down?) the cliff line and finished up at Bubba Buttress. Probably the most enjoyable climb of the day was Chicks in the Woods (11a) which is either on Ames Wall or Central Bubba (don’t have my guidebook with me). I won’t give any beta here, but it was a very technical face climb with a couple of very unique moves on it. Highly recommended route!

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