Elevenmile Canyon
- Posted: October 30, 2008
- By: andylibrande
- In: Camping, Colorado, Rock, Southern Mountains
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When: October 4-5th, 2008
Spent a chilly but beautiful weekend camping with Rambo, Chris and Page down in Elevenmile Canyon, which is a little bit outside of Colorado Springs. Really sweet place, while we didn’t have a whole lot of time there, but we covered a fair amount of ground.
The canyon is awesome as it is where the South Platte flows from a dam so the river is running full even at this time of the year. The area has a large amount of trad, sport, and boulder routes as well some sweet fishing. Anyways tried to take some shots but didn’t do a whole lot of photographing, but here is what did take place.
Here is some bouldering on the first night after we cooked dinner:
Spillway Campground A: Dragon’s Head Boulder
Anyways spent the first day doing a couple trad climbs with Rambo; hilarious since it has been a few years since I have climbed trad and Rambo has been doing it 3x a week all summer on long Red Rocks climbs in Nevada. Anyways good to mix up the climbing and do something a little different.
Enjoyed a good campfire with a special treat of smores:
Spent the next day trying to get to the Murray boulders without success due to the cold river crossing. Instead headed-up to a really sweet boulder.
Side view of the Spray Wall Boulder:
Crazy Problem on the side of the Spray Boulder. Has quite the crazy landing as it is all downhill and there is a dynamic move a few moves up.
Another view to give you a sense of its size:
Rambo gearing-up for a overhang crack:
Shot from above the Spillway campground:
Sasquatch and Beans:
Rambo (me trying to belay and shoot…ha):
Definitely check this place out.
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