Late Season Cragging

The snow freaks are starting to get nervous, but for the climbers, the weather has been perfect for late season cragging here in the Roaring Fork Valley. We got out this past weekend for some trad climbing at the upper F-Pan crag on Saturday. Couldn’t have asked for a finer day, and the routes were fantastic. We’re working on getting some topos together for this upper area, as there are close to 50 routes up here from 5.8 to 5.13, many of which are excellent trad lines. Stay tuned for more info on this fantastic zone.

Sunday we slept in and then headed out to the Surgery Buttress. This limestone crag features excellent stone and abundant sunshine in the afternoon. Some other friends showed up at the cliff and all in all we had a great day of cragging.

Also, congrats to Mike Schneiter and Chris Van Leuven for finishing their 5 pitch project on the Grizzly Creek Wall. The route is reported to be of high quality on excellent quartzite. Hopefully Mike’s gonna blog about it, until then you can check out the beta and some pics on MountainProject.com.