Black Hills SD > Devils Tower > Durrance Route > Climber's Log
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| evanj | first time  | |
| Amazing route, did the jump traverse! | |
| Posted Dec 1, 2010 11:55 pm | ||
| JoeyBagoDonuts | Great Climb, Beautiful Day Date Climbed: Oct 14, 2010 | |
| Almost a perfect day. | |
| Posted Oct 19, 2010 7:40 pm | ||
| noahs213 | Great Date Climbed: Aug 16, 2010 | |
| Great climb. 90% offwidth | |
| Posted Aug 17, 2010 1:15 pm | ||
| breagen | Durrance! Date Climbed: Aug 16, 2008 | |
| Hot but fun day on the tower! | |
| Posted Jul 13, 2010 6:43 pm | ||
| rockrat2 | hot, but great climb | |
| Cool climb, a little polished and very hot but would love to do it again. | |
| Posted Jun 20, 2010 8:56 pm | ||
| McCannster | Durrance Date Climbed: Apr 17, 2010 | |
| Up at the Tower for the weekend. Figured as a 50 Classic Climb, I couldn't go wrong. Fun climb, I found that Durrance crack was way harder than I had expected. | |
| Posted May 1, 2010 12:27 am | ||
| Dow Williams | Durrance Route Date Climbed: Apr 21, 2010 | |
| The main reason for our visit to Devils Tower was to visit with Frank Sanders. One of the most generous souls I have ever met in the climbing industry and a must person to meet if you get the chance. We had it to ourselves on a great day in April, summit as well. Maybe two other parties on the entire tower! April, mid week, the way to go. 70m was perfect to rap the route, although if other parties, take doubles to use the conventional rap line. I did the direct finish and thought it was the most difficult pitch of the route, and Frank has it at 5.9 I see. I was confused as I guess there is a 5th class pitch to the left. Fun pitch that ended right below the final rap anchor. With Stacy. | |
| Posted Apr 26, 2010 11:16 am | ||
| JonW | Sucks Date Climbed: Jul 26, 2009 | |
| This route really isn't climbing and mostly involve chimneys. The pitches are really really short and the rock is greasy. I won't be doing this route again. It sucks. | |
| Posted Aug 4, 2009 3:33 pm | ||
| dfrancom | Fun Date Climbed: May 28, 2009 | |
| Great Route. The crux for me was on the cussin crack pitch. I struggled to get over the first Chockstone. Fun route and very physical. | |
| Posted Jun 1, 2009 1:09 pm | ||
| peerzat | close encounters of the third rock kind. | |
| did the slab approach, apparently the classic approach, not the easier, 'stay low and to the right' slab approach. should've done the 1st pitch, 5.5. may have been quicker, would've planned on one more pitch as far as time goes, and would've been more fun. but, the slab approach deemed interesting and fun, too! should've trailed the rope and hauled the bag for the 1st two pitches, too! learned the hard way on that! got to the meadows via jump (don't jump) traverse. sun went down. climbed back up the jump traverse to rappel the route in the dark. DIDN'T RAP OFF THE NOSE! stupid, stupid. had to climb the rope in the dark to relieve the rope of it's 'not pulling through cause it was stuck in the crack' duties. ahh, the aliens were watching. returned to solid ground safely at about 9:00 pm. yeah. in november. dark. very classic stuff. loved every minute of it...for some reason I don't remember much of the rappelling in the dark...(human nature to suppress the negative experiences in life, right?) | |
| Posted Nov 15, 2008 4:17 am | ||
| pyerger | motorcycle mania Date Climbed: Aug 16, 2005 | |
| Lots of people on this one. Fifty crowded classics. Harley Heaven. | |
| Posted Aug 13, 2008 11:00 pm | ||
| RModelli | fun in the wind at the tower | |
| HAd a great climb with my friend Isaac....a bit of an epic end to it, but fun nonetheless | |
| Posted Jun 19, 2008 11:34 pm | ||
| Stickit | First Offwidth Date Climbed: Oct 13, 2003 | |
| My first experience with crack climbing. Steep learning curve (my turn to lead was the Durrance pitch). Great views and an awesome day. | |
| Posted May 9, 2008 11:59 am | ||
| usmcmars | Did it in the Dark... Date Climbed: Sep 19, 2007 | |
| This is the 2nd time I climbed this with Frank. The first time (about a week ago), we got to the top at sunset. I took some amazing photos. Last night, we did it in 3 long pitches with 70 meter ropes. The sun was going down by the 2nd pitch. The 3rd pitch was done with headlamps. I found that this climb was not as easy as I expected it to be, although it was an "easier" climb the second time around. Ohhhhh, when I was climbing up the leaning column, the wind was just howling! PS........Frank is cool:) | ||
| Posted Sep 20, 2007 10:57 pm | ||
| El_Capitan | 4th time? Date Climbed: Sep 2, 2005 | |
| Did the route for the 4th time I think? Always fun and the leaning column pitch is always tough. A lot tougher then the 5.6 (or 5.7 in some other books) rating. Definitely not for the new leader who think that 5.6 is a piece of cake. Not here on the tower. The easiest approach is to hike around the tower East on the trail till you are directly below the Durrance route. There is a set of viewing binoculars there. Go up from there and do the easy 5.5 ish pitch to the base. The other approach is to hike up and around the scree which takes a long time and is probably more dangerous. | ||
| Posted Sep 28, 2006 3:09 pm | ||
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