Climbing on Golden Cliffs
Dylan and Ann were in town for the weekend, so we met up at the warm basalt crags that sit above Golden, Colorado. It was a lovely day, warm enough to climb in tank tops, crowded enough to give the crag a party feel. Sean came up from Denver and met us around lunchtime as well.
I’m not going to chronicle the day hour by hour or anything. One important lesson from our day though: bring a trad rack to this area, even if you expect to only be sport climbing. There are a surprising number of really fun cracks to be climbed on North Table Mountain. If you never plug any gear out there, you’re missing out!
We climbed Toast and Jam (5.7+), Intuition (5.7), Hate Hate (5.9+), Henry Spies the Line (5.10a), and Mark worked up Death of Innocents (5.11d) on TR.
This was last Saturday? Missed you by one day, I went Sunday afternoon (VERY warm and almost nobody around, I couldn’t figure out why the lower parking lot was only 50% full!)
Hey Curtis!
Yep, Saturday was, evidently, the day to climb at NTM! Sorry we missed you this time. It’s getting to be cool enough to make climbing up there more bearable, so we’ll be heading out that way again in the next few weeks, no doubt. We’ll catch up to you sometime!
Argh, you’re way smarter than us–we froze our butts off up Boulder Canyon on Saturday.
Heh, well, sometimes you get a choice: go where the sun is or go where the good climbing is. I bet the climbing was better in Boulder. The weather was better in Golden! :)