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| seano | Solo  Date Climbed: Mar 21, 2013 | |
| Fun climb, mostly on big varnish holds. The walk-off is a bit gnarly, but not bad by Red Rocks standards, though it does require a bit of 5th class downclimbing. Trip report. | |
| Posted Mar 21, 2013 5:18 pm | ||
| Dow Williams | Solo Date Climbed: Mar 10, 2012 | |
| After 300 multi pitch trad climbs at Red Rock, I finally climbed Solar Slab. Left the trailhead at 2 in the afternoon....and ended up with the entire upper slab to myself on a beautiful March Saturday....was a bit shocked about that. When I reached the top, Joanne Urioste, a friend (Ken) and her son (Danny) gave me a free ride down on their ropes (took my harness in case I ran into someone I knew...but there is a pleasant walk off for those of you who do not know). They had climbed Black Orpheus and wanted to descend Solar. Great day out with great company on descent. | |
| Posted Mar 15, 2012 6:51 pm | ||
| platypii | Great climb! Date Climbed: Jan 23, 2011 | |
| Success on our 2nd attempt at Solar Slab (ran out of daylight the first time). Endless fun on moderate climbing. FYI- we left our rope when we started scrambling up the class 3 slabs near the top to save weight. Don't do that. There's one more technical pitch, which we Solo'd because we were too lazy to go back for the rope. Oops. :-) | |
| Posted Feb 9, 2011 9:17 pm | ||
| Montana Matt | One of my favorites Date Climbed: Nov 25, 1999 | |
| Climbed with Josh. Loved it! | |
| Posted Feb 7, 2011 9:30 pm | ||
| utclimber | Solar Slab and Gully | |
| I climbed Solar Slab, approaching from the gully in March of 2003. Fun climb. | ||
| Posted May 10, 2010 11:43 pm | ||
| haishan | Classic Date Climbed: Nov 28, 2009 | |
| Climbed SS gully and were able to pass two parties (on Johnny Vegas) and reach upper route first. Got very cold and windy on top, some brief rain showers on rappel. Recommend double-rope raps on upper tier but single-rope in the gully. | |
| Posted Mar 31, 2010 9:59 pm | ||
| SKI | Shoulda brought two ropes! Date Climbed: Nov 21, 2009 | |
| Running it out quite a bit on the third pitch! +1 to WML for a rap epic. My bad! | |
| Posted Dec 30, 2009 8:44 pm | ||
| WML | long day! Date Climbed: Nov 21, 2009 | |
| Wound up pitching out the gully below with a buddy who hadn't climbed trad prior as a warm-up, got a few pitches up, then had to descend due to lack of daylight (yay winter climbing!). Rappelled Johnny Vegas (double-rope raps, not recommended in the dark...just sayin.) | |
| Posted Nov 23, 2009 10:55 am | ||
| pyerger | solar slab | |
| A few attempts, but keep running out of daylight. Winter climbing | |
| Posted Jul 29, 2009 10:47 am | ||
| J Fox | A great into to Red Rocks Date Climbed: Jun 6, 2009 | |
| PArt 2 of my first day climbing at Red Rocks. Climbed with dervin, dale and ryan. A sweet climb, linked with Johnny Vegas. We got rained on while rapping off but made it down fine even with 4 people sharing some pretty tight rap stations. | |
| Posted Jun 9, 2009 4:32 pm | ||
| dervin | Part 2 Of an Epic Day! Date Climbed: Jun 6, 2009 | |
| Perfect Day. | |
| Posted Jun 8, 2009 10:56 pm | ||
| bfrench | Solar Slab | |
| Yep. | |
| Posted Apr 30, 2009 10:01 pm | ||
| JGHarrison | Windy but awesome Date Climbed: Mar 29, 2009 | |
| Great climb. Not too hot, but really windy. We bailed on the fourth pitch...Alongside Johnny Vegas this was my first longish trad route. Great time. | |
| Posted Mar 30, 2009 7:34 pm | ||
| fossana | solar slab mostly Date Climbed: Jan 12, 2009 | |
| Another quiet climb on Solar Slab wall with Jascha. Combined with Johnny Vegas. Amazingly, no other parties the whole day. Bailed at the pitch after the last rap as the sun went behind Mt Wilson and the frigid winter winds picked up. Rope snags necessitated a few exposed solos, but we made it down safely. | |
| Posted Jan 13, 2009 8:59 am | ||
| dfrancom | Almost | |
| Due to weather we had to bail just before the last pitch.. too bad! liked everypitch until then.. first big multipitch climb | |
| Posted Oct 18, 2008 7:26 pm | ||
| Sam Page | 3x | |
| Climbed this in spring 2000, 2001, and 2002. This is one of my favorite routes at Red Rocks. The first time we made the mistake of "finishing the route" and descending the gully. | |
| Posted Apr 20, 2008 7:20 pm | ||
| Bonesaw | Long and Fun! Date Climbed: Mar 15, 2008 | |
| Climbed this with my fiance and had a blast! Climbed Solar Slab Gully at night and bivied on the terrace in an effort to avoid crowds. Got a somewhat early start on Solar Slab. Fun climb, pretty straight-forward. Rope got stuck once on the rap descent, but luckily was able to lead on the other rope and retrieve it. Walk back to car (on 159) seemed very long. | |
| Posted Mar 18, 2008 4:10 pm | ||
| ibndalight | Long Day Date Climbed: Dec 14, 2007 | |
| Hit this route on a warm up for Black Orpheus was cold route untill the sun hits it in the late morning was a great day | |
| Posted Dec 18, 2007 11:43 pm | ||
| Hyadventure | Real Fun but EPIC Date Climbed: Mar 23, 2007 | |
| Woke 5:50, on the trail by 7:00, made easy work of the gully, was going to rap off with couple behind us but they bailed on the 3rd pitch, got slightly off-route on fourth pitch, topped out around 5:30. 9 hours, 8 Rapps, 5 ahh shit moments, 4 route finding errors, 3 bail binners, 2 hole's in my partners pants, and one droped flashlite later we were back in camp (2:30am). | |
| Posted Apr 3, 2007 2:52 pm | ||
| El_Capitan | watch out for the rappel Date Climbed: Jan 2, 2007 | |
| has no problem rappeling down solar slab but got the rope stuck twice rappeling down johnny vegas. i would either downclimb or rappel the gulley next time. combining it with johnny vegas is the way to go. | ||
| Posted Jan 24, 2007 3:32 am | ||
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