Some friends and I went climbing in Colorado for a few days. We started in Garden of the Gods, right out of CO. Springs, which would later result in major failure.
Each of our sites were either taken or shut down for the season (due to renovations). We were able to appreciate the sights and scenery and hiked throughout the park…but we weren’t really able to climb at all. The final nail in the coffin was when we tried scrambling up a 50+ foot ‘easy’ climb with our gear…my friend wore his sandals up the side, which resulted in him gassing out midway through. It was a fairly scary situation, because if he fell, he was fucked. We had no ropes out or anything.
Here is a picture of that idiocy-
We eventually put the pack on a small ledge and rappelled down. Here is an example via google-
So yeah…first day was a catastrophic failure.
We drove to Boulder Canyon, right outside of Boulder, CO, where we found success. I’m not really going to go too much into the details, as there really aren’t any…so here are pictures (I was not designated photographer this trip, so these are all hers)-
my first lead route-
found this crazy cave…we didn’t go too deep, due to not having any light.
