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Cirque of the Unclimbable – Vol.10

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Indian Creek, April 2017 

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Cirque of the Unclimbable – Vol.07

Cirque climbing trip Vol.07

This is a part of my Cirque of the Unclimbables climbing trip in 2019.Please search for “TheCirque2019” in my blog search or look for #cirqueoftheunclimbables in tag cloud for more posts from this trip. August 23 -25Fortunately, the weather forecast was not correct. It did not rain or snow on the 23rd, but we did not go to clean the route due to hazardous icicles. Since the weather was okay, we…

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Our Red River trip took a serious hit due to injuries, now it’s just me and one other friend driving down in my car. So, instead of killing ourselves to drive almost 18 hours in one day, we’re breaking the trip up into 2 parts. I’m picking him up in Mass, and then we’ll be staying at the Gunks for an undetermined amount of time (2ish days, idk, we’ll play it by weather), checking out the area and doing some bouldering. Then we’re heading down to the Red in another 10 hour stretch. Wish us luck!

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Local Info?

Ss it looks like we will be taking on the 27 hour car ride from Maine to Kentucky the evening of the 4th, and staying at Red River until the 13th or later. Organization and planning are a bit of a mess, but what we are really going to be lacking in is any form of local knowledge. If anyone has any tips to through out, or even good guide book recommendations it would be much appreciated!

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I spent the (long) weekend Friday-Sunday in a town called Buena Vista which quite literally means "good view" and it certainly is. I was so captivated by the mountains the whole time we were there, and climbing is a pretty great way to get to see panoramic views from above.

On Friday, my friends & I headed out to a crag called Transmitter Tower but we got rained on just a few minutes after setting up, so we packed everything up and headed into town for hot coffee and sandwiches. Then we went back out in the late afternoon once everything cleared and we still got a lot of great climbs in. We had a raging fire that night too, which was kind of crazy because there is a fire in a town really close to Buena Vista and you could see and smell some of the smoke, so it was weird to not be in a fire ban. We made sure we poured GALLONS of water on our fire each night though.

Saturday I only climbed one climb and then it was insanely hot, so I decided to go on a hike instead! I ditched everyone and hiked to Ptarmigan Lake by myself and it was GORGEOUS. There was a lot of adventure involved. It rained off and on most of the 5 mile hike, there was so much snow by the end of the trail that I was postholing up to my knee (and once up to my waist, which I did not love, 0/10 experience haha), the river crossings were insane, and I ended up at the top of the ridge with the lake across the marsh from me wondering how I ended up so off trail (from the snow fields) and wondering how the fuck to get to the lake?? I eventually figured it out and the giant mountain views were 100% worth it. On the way back, I heard some guy yelling out to me and I looked over and realized that again I was EXCEPTIONALLY off-trail so it was very helpful that this kind stranger helped me to get back on it! I would've gotten there eventually (I had the AllTrails map downloaded, but it was hard to keep up with it because I needed my hands free for all the falling over in the snow) but it would've taken much longer. And more postholing. We had another excellent campfire night two which also included guitars.

Sunday we went to the craziest crag called Chocolate Tower that sits next to an abandoned railroad. There hasn't been a train on it for 30 years but it still felt kind of spooky to be belaying just a few feet away from the tracks!! Then we headed over to Turtle Rock and did some climbs in a shady corridor which was nice because the heat was getting pretty brutal again. We were getting a really nice breeze through the corridor though. Then I had an uneventful drive home with my friend Mike, and met Laine at home for poke I had been craving for days.