Red Rock Climbing > Calico Hills > Climber's LogCalico Hills Climber's Log
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| Deb | Route Climbed: Cannibal Crag Date Climbed: 8 January 2005  | |
| Dave and I did a couple of routes on this rock, most interesting was a burly 5.8+ with not much protection. Love that sandstone! | |
| Posted Jan 9, 2006 11:25 am | ||
| Rob | Route Climbed: Many Date Climbed: Various | |
| :-) | |
| Posted Jan 5, 2006 11:12 am | ||
| MtnTroll | Route Climbed: Too many to list Date Climbed: 1999 to Present | |
| Doesn't matter if Im climbing, or just our for a quick hike, I love the Hills. From Calico Basin around to SS Quarry, lots of fun stuff. | ||
| Posted Jan 5, 2006 12:05 am | ||
| Rileywyna | Route Climbed: many Date Climbed: 1998 to present | |
| Red Rocks is where I learned how to climb. | |
| Posted Dec 21, 2005 6:47 am | ||
| Day Hiker | Route Climbed: Various Date Climbed: Various | |
| 2005 October 16: Soupy Sales (5.6+) With wife, brother, and some good friends. 2005 October 23: Chicken Gumbo for Your Dumbo (5.6); From Soup to Nuts (5.7); Abbey Road (5.4). 2005 October 30: Carpetbagger (5.6+). 2005 October 06: Badger's Buttress (5.6). 2005 December 04: See Spot Run (5.6); Elementary Primer(?) (5.7+); Seams Novel (5.7+); Dangling Participles (5.8); Subject-Verb Agreement (5.8). | |
| Posted Oct 17, 2005 1:02 pm | ||
| SusanM | Route Climbed: Scramble Date Climbed: October 2004 | |
| My long time hiking buddy brought some co-workers for a big group to scramble and climb. A lot of fun because you can play it by ear in this area. A good introductory for those new to climbing. | |
| Posted Jul 24, 2005 7:29 pm | ||
| Matt K | Date Climbed: June 11, 2005 | |
| Hiked and climbed various class 3 and 4 routes for a couple of hours. I plan to check out some class 5 stuff soon. | ||
| Posted Jun 11, 2005 8:51 pm | ||
| mt_daydream | Route Climbed: Physical Graffiti Date Climbed: March 13, 2005 | |
| Enjoyed a week of great climbing in Red Rocks. Physical Graffiti was a good starter after two hours of sleep following a 16-hr drive! A good route with some nice views. | |
| Posted Mar 21, 2005 10:52 pm | ||
| rpiontek | Route Climbed: Physical Graffiti Date Climbed: January 23, 2005 | |
| I really enjoyed the climbing on the second pitch. It's a long one, though, so make sure you save some gear for the top. The climbing eases after the first 40 feet or so, but still very enjoyable. | |
| Posted Jan 26, 2005 5:08 pm | ||
| M and N Denyer | Route Climbed: Great Red Book Date Climbed: December 27, 2004 | |
| Enjoyed this fun route that is comprised of a mixture of just about every type of climbing--face, lie back, slab. We had the route to ourselves. As we were walking back to the car, we saw plenty of other climbers on the countless single pitch sport routes in the area, but no one on Great Red Book. | |
| Posted Jan 4, 2005 12:08 pm | ||
| rpc | Route Climbed: Multiple Date Climbed: Multiple | |
| November 23, 2004: The Great Red Book. Another short gem in Calico Hills! Fun, varied climbing mostly trad-protected (few bolts) with some minor runouts on easier ground. Go there early or go there late to avoid waiting in line. We got lucky as there were no people when we got there....3 or 4 parties were lined up by the time we descended in the afternoon. This is another good rest day type climb - up and down in time for brunch and beer :) November 30, 2002: Physical Graffiti. A very fun climb to do if you need a rest day from long multi pitch routes at Red Rocks. If this climb were located at say Smith Rock, it would be a 4-star route. The route takes about 15 minutes to approach and about an hour to climb. Pitch two is more fun offering some clean crack climbing and some face climbing. | |
| Posted Dec 14, 2004 4:48 pm | ||
| Don Nelsen | Route Climbed: From every side Date Climbed: First time about 1999 | |
| Every chance I get I go up to Red Rock Valley and try a different way up to the top of the Calico Hills. This is a great spot to get away for a few hours and usually 10 or 12 degrees cooler than Vegas. | |
| Posted Nov 24, 2004 12:01 am | ||
| cp0915 | Route Climbed: see below Date Climbed: many times | |
| I've enjoyed the fantastic boulder scrambling all over those hills many a time. Also: Soupy Sales (5.6+) a couple of times - Oct 16, 2005 Chicken Gumbo for Your Dumbo (5.6) - Oct 23, 2005 From Soup to Nuts (5.7) - Oct 23, 2005 Abbey Road (5.4) twice - Oct 23, 2005 Carpetbagger (5.6+) - Oct 30, 2005 Han Soloing (5.4) - Nov 6, 1005 Carrie Fissure (5.8) - Nov 6, 2005 Badger's Buttress (5.6) - Nov 6, 2005 Feb 19, 2006 - Finally tagged the highpoint of Calico Hills, Red Top (aka - Turtlehead Junior), in a light snowfall. Went on to grab the summits of a couple subsidiary crags in the same area. Feb 20, 2006 - some unidentified 5.6 @ California Crags (x2) | |
| Posted Feb 18, 2004 2:55 pm | ||
| crag | Route Climbed: various Date Climbed: April 2002 | |
| the scrambling here is delightful | |
| Posted Jan 23, 2004 3:05 pm | ||
| tonybell1 | Route Climbed: Great Red Book Date Climbed: Summer 1988 | |
| Delightful! | |
| Posted May 28, 2003 7:51 pm | ||
| Eric Tipton | Route Climbed: "The Great Red Book" I 5.8 Date Climbed: April 2003 | |
| This 2 pitch route up the large dihedral above the Black Corridor is a classic fun climb. | ||
| Posted May 15, 2003 11:26 pm | ||
| darinchadwick | Route Climbed: Panty Wall, Black Corridor, Magic Bus, Moderate Mecca, Ultraman Wall Date Climbed: Spring Break 2001, 2002, 2006. | |
| Of these areas I've climbed in, the only one I wouldn't recommend would be Moderate Mecca. It's just nasty there. Magic Bus, Ultraman, and Panty Wall get lots of sunshine, good when the weather is snotty for the longer canyon climbs in Red Rocks. | |
| Posted Mar 3, 2003 12:45 am | ||
| Josh | Route Climbed: Many Date Climbed: Many | |
| Lots of sport climbs and solos over the years. Fun stuff. | |
| Posted Feb 1, 2003 8:21 am | ||
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