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Re: Colorado National Monument TR (Part II)

Dylan — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:37:48 -0000

Ok, so the outdoormap link is good, but it still doesn't link back, because your RSS feed is just summaries, which don't contain the link. That would be difficult one to code around. Thanks for the test case!

Re: Colorado National Monument TR (Part II)

Kate — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 01:39:50 -0000

So, the fall factor is dependant on both the length of the fall, and the amount of rope out. Ironically, a 200ft tumble off the belay has the same fall factor as a 20ft fall off the belay (length of fall/length of rope = 2).

Mark says the climbing was easy until the pitons, which were bomber, and that he wasn't worried because 20 people a day climbed the route, and none of them died. :)

Mark also thinks the pitch could be protected with a larger tricam than we brought. If you climb it, Matt, bring a #2.5 and a #3 or the Red and Orange TCUs.

Re: Colorado National Monument TR (Part II)

Matt — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:00:45 -0000

Nice. I think that Mark should have brought more gear though. Maybe a drill for the 100' runout? What is the fall factor for that?

I think a long runout at 300'+ would make me a little nervous. Desert rock is soft - I knew a guy who had a piton pull on him when he fell and the piece above the piton popped. Took a whole chunk of rock with it. He ended up having to be carried down several pitches - didn't remeber it.

Re: Colorado National Monument TR (Part II)

Kate — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:57:00 -0000

Ah, ok, I see. I was surprised that the actual trailhead didn't seem to be in there. The parking lot is about a third of a mile north of the entrance to the canyon. You hike along the outside of this fence protecting a very swank neighborhood from all of us rock climbing ruffians for maybe 20 minutes before you get into the Monument. I didn't have my GPS so I can't really add that in accurately. But I'll fix the link above.

Re: Colorado National Monument TR (Part II)

Dylan — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:13:29 -0000

Excellent report! Now Ann and I both really want to go there.

Thank you for linking to The Outdoor Map! To get full linkback goodness though, link to the location detail page (http://www.theoutdoormap.co...[show_uid]=11860).