About 1400 routes in the foothills west of Denver.
South Platte Rock Climbing and the Garden of the Gods
( Photo : Jeff Achey ) Genesis From Ament on Supremacy to Erickson on The Naked Edge , the story of Eldorado free climbing is speckled with obsessions , but no obsession before or since has matched that of Jim Collins .
... Deb Roth, Mark Roth, Micah Salazar, Jack Sasser, Jayson Sime, Alan Stoughton, Heather Teale, Ryan Wallace, Roxanne Weippert, and Brian Williams for contributing photos, and/or their good looks, and/or belays to this project.
Written for nonlocal climbers who have only a few days to climb during each visit, these guides provides visually appealing, to-the-point information that filters out the classic routes and very best climbs.
South Platte Rock
A rock climbing guide to Elevenmile Canyon. Features topos, descriptions, and pictures of established sport and traditional routes encountered in the canyon.
Each route's difficulty is rated according to the Yosemite Decimal System. Includes round-trip mileage and elevation gain. Roach has climbed every peak in this guide. Photographs and maps.
For example, in 1979, a Colorado climber named Jim Collins free climbed Genesis, an old aid pitch on Redgarden Wall in Eldorado Canyon. Mountain, a British climbing magazine, obsessively chronicled Collins's progress on the route over ...
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