Damon Vaughan

One of the steepest trad pitches I've ever done. Insane jugs! Kinds like the sport climbs in the Flatirons, just way easier.

Three pitch route over by Vertigo. I did the "best" variation, with P2 of the route "Three old farts", and P3 being the roof variation pitch. I can't believe this one is not more classic! Sustained, steep and pumpy.

Big flake for a hundred feet. Cool and unique!

Right of "Tubesteaks tomorrow" at the 2nd Meat Wall. A bit chossy but fun, with a hard anchor clip.

Great clean line

Good route at the Power Wall, varied and long. There is some choss in the middle though.

Incredible wavy hand crack, but very short. Left of Flower Power at the Power wall.

Nice flake/corner. 2's to 3's with a crux somewhere in the middle.

Really nice line. Incredibly easy to protect since you place gear in a different crack than the one you climb.

Splitter-est thing I've ever climbed.

4X4 Wall, way over to the right

To the right of Dr. Carl

Tons of variety and a cool chimney section

Chimney choss to a nice crack

Tricky stemming

Ultimate mank in the upper hand jams almost prevented me from sending. Pretty crack.

Great route, maybe the best crack at the wall.

P1 only. Awesome, awesome pitch. Sustained and tricky.

Linking the first two pitches makes an amazing long 5.9 pitch. The crux pitch is pretty cool, but there is some junky rock for sure. Hard to make the crux look pretty!

Beautiful alpine wall. Bivied the night before and got to the route before the sun came up. Splitter cracks galore! We did it in 7 pitches, including the two on the North Ridge.

Great crack with a short crux, felt a bit easy for 5.11

Awesome route, and great training for the stuff on the Diamond. Significantly easier approach (not having to do the Chimneys is HUGE), and a few less pitches. Directissima is a plum line up the Chasm View wall with 4 amazing pitches, each better and a bit harder than the last. At the end, you flop over right onto the Boulderfield where you can be gawked at by the hikers.

Birthday climb. Beautiful route with lots of cool exposed positions. We finished with the last pitch of Outer Space, which is probably the best way to finish this except you have to move the belay.

This route has a reputation for being run out, and I think it earns it. The second pitch was disappointingly easy I thought, but still the whole thing was amazing. So many jugs on perfect rock!

Left variation is 10a, right is 11a. After climbing a (sometimes) chossy wide-ish crack,this one moves right into a nice clean dihedral. I exited left at the top, but it looks like you have a variety of options.

Two pitch route on the Wind Tower. Quite a confusing sequence through the crux roof, I almost fell.

First foray into the realms of headpointing. This one gets an R rating, which it may or may not deserve. Very cool climb, but broken up by a huge ledge in the middle. I found the upper part waaaay harder than the lower, though with better pro

Awesome route and my first in LCC. Totally different type of climbing than I'm used to. Did it in 4 pitches, but could be 3. The last pitch is a featureless slab with a chickenhead and bolt about every 20 feet. Scary!

Superb finger crack. Mega.

Hideously awkward corner to start, then primo crack climbing.

Incredible climb on beautiful jet black rock. Place gear in the crack but this is fully a face climb, and pretty easy at 5.9.

Three rope stretching pitches. Some good climbing, but tons of the typical Grey Rock scrambling for long stretches. Great views!

Six pitches the way we did it. Awesome spire in Rocky Mountain Park with some good rock and some choss. Cool summit

It's all just an approach to the bar. Spur of the moment alpine FA, made with Adam Fisher. Done while camping at the Chimneys area of Burly Mountain in the Elk Range of Colorado. After scrambling up a choss ramp, this takes one of two prominent fin aretes to the top of the chimneys. Done in two pitches, with plenty of frightening choss, routefinding, runouts, and great movement to be found along the way. Did it in mountaineering boots, with a not quite adequate selection of gear to say the least. This is actually a good climb that would be worth the approach for, and after cleaning some loose rock and bringing a full rack would probably not be R rated.

This has been on the list for a long time. Not nearly as intimidating as people made it out to be. Three five star pitches, including the first two of Bastille Crack linked. Excellent exposure, movement, and rock.

Short and fierce.

No gear for the first 20 feet or so. Bolted anchors

Awesome long pitch of mostly 5.9 climbing with a short reachy crux.

Great single pitch crack. Slightly tricky pro at the crux

The guidebook describes it as "blissfull". I would agree.

Pretty much did it as one pitch but stopped ten feet short of the top to build a belay because I didn't know how close I was. Truly one of the most amazing stretches of granite I've been on. Didn't know granite could make pockets like that!

Excellent route on amazing and varied rock. The move out to the knob is cool and the wildest I've done on 5.7. For the second pitch we mistakenly did some sort of direct variation up a diagonalling crack that was great and probably 5.9/10

A grand adventure. An awesome buttress on the north face of Mt. Meeker that is visible from Estes Park. Easiest way up is apparently 5.9 but you're almost guaranteed to get off route.

Just another one of those classic moderate front range old school multi pitchers. So good.

Cool offwidth crack.

Scary... powerful moves over nothing that will hold, then a big balancy runout after a bolt. The end is the crux, but its very well protected.

A little wide for hand jams. Not used to this kind of crack. 5.9

Only did the first pitch. My first "offwidth". The chimney with handcrack section was bizarre and totally new to me. Awesome climb! 5.9

Direct exit to the 5.7 "slat". A cool bouldery section with good pro. 10a

Awesome route on mostly good rock. The first time I've climbed a route of this type and I really like it.

First 5.11 gear climb! Very cool- tons of variety. Dihedral hands, foot cutting jug traverse, to a wildly exposed layback section

At the quarry area. Great hand crack, very strenuous for me.

Spectacular dihedral

An all-time classic and for good reason

A very interesting and refreshingly different climb. The first pitch is cool but the second is more memorable, packing a whole lot into it's 30 feet.

Awesome. You have to get very creative with that pod thing on the wide crack. I climbed it very bouldery, with heelhooks and stuff.

I think 6b means 10c. No excuse for not climbing this after Werk Supp

Very memorable climb. First pitch is hard as hell and desperate, and the second is just pure fun, one of the best slabs I've ever seen

Second pitch is easier than it looks. Getting over that ledge on the rappel is scary!

Good change of pace to get on a crack in Eldo. The last pitch is awesome.

Holy hell what a hard 5.9! Incredible finger crack in an amazing setting.

Cool moves on the arete.

Great for a beginner to TR

I really liked this climb... maybe because you don't get to climb too many cracks in Eldo. Fun adventurous first pitch leads to a very cool corner crack for the second.

Awesome pitch. Avoid the second pitch at all costs

Unique for eldo!

Exposed right off the bat. Interesting moves in the second pitch moving into the offwidth, good to have a bolt at your face!

One of the highlights of my climbing experiences so far. Beautiful route on beatiful rock. Linked it with Upper Ruper to top out Redgarden

Great summit climb. Perfect to take a beginner up

Goofy fun 3rd pitch

fingers to hands, with some choss in the middle

Classic Eldo single pitch. Two ways to finish it- I went left near the tree

Great 6 pitch climb. The second pitch is one of the coolest in Eldo, with tons of variety and incredible exposure. Some chossy but worthwhile pitches follow, then the excellent Rebuffet's arete and a cool easy short finger crack to finish.

I accidentally found myself on this when I was trying to do Chianti. I knew it felt hard for 5.8

Alt start to Bastille Crack

Via the Great Zot. A fantastic, exposed Eldo classic. I was definitely scared on the fifth pitch, even though it's only 5.5

Incredible face climbing. Very exposed and run out. I've never been so scared on 5.4

Not very good until the incredible 4th pitch, which makes the whole thing worth it. Also Rebuffet's arete is a cool variation. The last pitch is a fun, short finger crack.

Great pitch on perfect rock. Laughably hard for 5.6

Nice corner crack

Dirty, clearly not done very often. On the Wind Ridge

Great climbing up an interesting feature. Incredible rock too.

I don't remember much from this one except a cool squeeze part.

Somewhat scary first pitch, a 100 foot long squeeze. I'd never done anything like that before. I'd also never done anything like the 2nd pitch, a crawling traverse 180 degrees around the spire. The 3rd pitch is cool too.

Classic, with interesting gear placements and the quintessential Needles simul-rap to finish it off.

Scary start

Runout to the first bolt over a death landing, like every Needles "sport" climb

Wide crack- an anomaly for the area

Classic. Longest pitch I've ever done. Incredibly sustained.

First climb on Devil's Tower. Had a blast, got scared, but made it to the top!

one of the classic spire climbs. This one is really easy

Essentially a free solo. Great Needles climbing

Cool climbing with a fun mantle to chimney to finish it off. 3 pitches

Sweet dihedral with amazing pro

Good dihedral, crux is bottom section

Splitter... beautiful. One of the first cracks like it I've ever climbed

A lot like Passages

Holy crap! Incredible!

Really steep for a seven, I was surprised

Campus start to thin cracks up higher. Cool and unique

Long dihedral with roofs at top

Awesome, long and varied. Amazing double crack crux section

Easily the best crack I've climbed

Awesome crux

Very cool gear climb with a little bit of everything

Mariba rules

5.4, 8a doesn't even go that low!

Don't do the second pitch! First is awesome though

Good climb on the West Ridge with tons of variety. Confusing first pitch

Damn fine line. Slippery first pitch. Cool roof pull on the second.

A great, out of the way climb to an awesome summit. Some serious choss along the way though

Definitely one of my all time favorites. Also the site of my biggest climbing epic to date. Finding my way down the west slabs at midnight with no headlamp in shorts and a T-shirt. Not something I ever hope to do again! Repeated it recently and it went much smoother.

An Eldo favorite. Didn't do the second half until several years later. The third pitch traverse is spectacular!

My introduction to Eldo.

Amazing final pitch. I didn't do the Beast flake, which probably would have made it better. Second pitch was a dirty chimney, pretty scary.

Hardest trad lead

Kinda awkward. My friend ripped his cam out and almost decked from 35 feet after I did it.

Great climb, eats gear.

took me years to finally climb it the way it was meant to be climbed... great crack

Great trad lead

cool route with a distinct crux

by far the best trad lead at rw

so scary for me

better than the left hand crack

one of the better gear leads at red wing