Crag Exposure: Shelf Road

Typical Shelf scene

Canon City, America, home to Ortega’s (best New Mexican Food outside New Mexico), Colorado’s largest Penitentiary (known as the Alcatraz of the Rockies), and Shelf Road rock climbing!  Probably Colorado’s best, most expansive face climbing area, Shelf Road hosts hundreds and hundreds of routes with a little something for everyone.  Experience the Vertical Beach this winter, jump for more info on Shelf…

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Tags: Crag Exposure, Dolomite, McDonalds, onsight, Ortegas, Shelf Road

Sharmaster is a lizard king

It would seem Super Sharma didn’t want to rest at all after sending his Clark Mountain project Jumbo Love (5.15b). He decided to run on over to Maple Canyon and onsight some classics in the Pipe Dream cave. When I say classics I mean ridiculously hard climbs including a 13c, 13d/14a, 14a/b, and a 14b. Not only that but it’s in Maple where onsights are not so easy because of the gnarly cobbles and ridiculous beta.

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Tags: chris sharma, maple, onsight, project