Brendan Leonard

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Not-so-great climbing pics, June 16-20 June 21, 2007

Filed under: climbing,Estes Park,Horsetooth Reservoir,Lumpy Ridge,North Table Mountain — brendanpleonard @ 6:16 pm
Lee and I went climbing at Lumpy Ridge in Estes Park on Saturday. Unfortunately, I left my camera in the truck, so this is the only shot I got: The sun rising along Highway 93 between Golden and Eldorado Springs.

I did poach this photo off MountainProject.com, though (courtesty Jason Seaver). We climbed a route called the White Whale on the Left Book, under the red arrow in the photo.

On Sunday, Nick and I drove up to Horsetooth Reservoir to do some toproping on the cliffs there with Aaron and Chris. Here’s Nick on some 5.8 line on Duncan’s Ridge, I believe.

Here’s Aaron near the top of the same climb, with Nick belaying him.
He smiles because he likes the climbing.

Nick and I went out to Golden after work on Wednesday and climbed a couple routes on North Table Mountain. The last one wasn’t in the guidebook, and it was 5.9ish or 5.10ish. After flailing around on it like a scared Cub Scout for a while, I finally finished it in the dark. Which would have given me a great opportunity to get a sweet photo of the moon rising over the cliffs, except I don’t have a monopod, so it came out pretty shitty-looking.
 

 
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