Bouldering

More Boulders

Doug Ranck — 2009-11-28T03:17:53Z

More boulders to be had. Park at Split rocks and go north and east onto the hillside and explore to you hearts content. There are enough for all of us including my dog. Have fun and climb hard.

Buena Vista town boulders

Doug Ranck — 2009-08-27T01:51:36Z

The Town of Buena Vista and South Main Town Corp. have recently installed three artificial boulders in a new town park and the South Main Square park. The name's for the parks are, Buena Vista Boulder Garden with 2 boulders and the South Main Town Square Boulder with 1 large boulder. These boulders have natural routes carved in and options for bolt on hand holds. At this time several routes have been set on these boulders and they are color coded for your ease to follow them. Climb hard and have fun.

Best for Beginners?

ctxguide.com — 2008-07-06T16:46:19Z

What area would you recommend for beginners? I'm immagining a place with many easier options.

New Boulder Problems

beck — 2008-05-27T14:56:56Z

hey i got a few pics of the area that we hit up this fall. i dont know how to insert pics, or add them to my profile...but whatever. anyways i plan on heading back up to bv sometime before school ends (graduation, and joing the real world).

Local Boulders

Phillip — 2008-05-26T23:10:54Z

Do the boulder areas you list consist of the normal grainy, sharp rock that defines the commonly found rock all over BV? I have found the best rock is from rockfall like the talus field at Almost a Tunnel.

New area near Turtle Rock

kansasclimber07 — 2008-05-26T23:03:45Z

Check out this new area, just left of the Turtle rock dome. It is a great wall with some stiff problems, ranging from V3-to possiblities up to V8! Maybe more!!

Angel Fire-V6
Instant Karama-V5
Goonies-V3
Jailhouse Booty-V4
Check out this link for more, and let me know what you thought of the problems!!!

http://www.mountainproject.com/v/colorado/buena_vista/turtle_rocks_bouldering_area/105932530

Stephen

Climb for yourself

The Flake Project

beck — 2008-05-26T22:41:29Z

i think your thinking of the climbing issue 154, from 1996 i believ. it has bob "traversing" at dorthy's barefoot, on the right and lower of the "flake".

in the picture you can see the upper flakes at that time have no chalk on them, and murray clearly has chalk on his hands and a large one hanging off his hips. so im sure the flake would have chalk on them if bob would have tried it.

my earliest times bouldering at dorthy's is around 1999, and even then the uppermost flake was not chalked. sometime from 2000-2002 a tick mark appeared just below two small crimps. no chalk on them, so me and a couple of locals that bouldered there regularly started trying. after a summer of trying, a few people were able to match hands on the upper most flake and fall off.

a few years later, absent because of college, me, a few friends met up with ruben lewis, and projected again. again the high point was the upper most flake....

then this past summer, i arrived again, this time i met up with leadville local john crum, ruben, matt moore, and a couple of summer raft guides. i chalked up the two possible crips, and the projecting begain. to my knowledge that was the first time the crimps were ever used, a deadpoint dyno from the upper most flake to the crimp, and was only stuck for a fraction of a second....V7 my ass. there are still 2-3 more moves, and the mantle might be the overall crux.