In September, while working on the moves of Ddong Chim! (5.11b), a woman fell partway up this overhanging sport climb. The route begins directly behind a tall conifer, and the woman crashed into a stubby dead branch that points toward the cliff li...
In the afternoon of November 9, the Alpine Rescue Team responded to the report of a 22-year-old male climber who had fallen at the Creekside climbing area. The climber was on the last pitch of Black Gold (5 pitches, 5.7+), approximately 300 feet o...
On July 27 at 2:18 p.m., the Alpine Rescue Team responded to the report of a fallen climber (male, early 20s) at Sushi Slab. The climber was discovered with a lower leg injury and unable to walk. Due to the location of the crag (several hundred fe...
In early summer, during the annual runoff from mountain snowmelt, a climber crossed swollen Clear Creek on a semi-permanent Tyrolean traverse; he was returning to the roadside East Colfax area after climbing on the opposite side of the river. The ...
On June 6 at 12:56 p.m., the Alpine Rescue Team responded to the report of an 18-year-old female climber who had fallen at the Other Critters area. Initial reports indicated the climber had fallen a significant distance and was unresponsive. While...
My partner and I (age 23) decided to climb Rewritten (5.7) in Eldorado Canyon State Park on Saturday, December 7. We started later in the day, arriving at the park around 10 a.m., because the morning was cold. The park was relatively empty, but th...
On September 9 at about 9 a.m., my friend Austin and I set out to climb Werk Supp on the north face of the Bastille. I led the first pitch (5.8+), placing protection only where I felt that I needed it. The pitch ends by pulling over a slight bulge...
On May 17, at approximately 7 p.m., two experienced climbers set out to climb Swanson Arête, a long 5.5, after doing several difficult single-pitch routes on Redgarden Wall. The plan was to simul-climb the route and descend the East Slabs of Redga...
On July 7, at approximately 2 p.m., my fiancé John Luebbers (34) and I (32) were attempting a tight dihedral called We Don’t Do Crack, a single-pitch 5.8 with a tricky start. I had placed one piece (number 0.5 C4 Camalot) about six to eight feet o...
In midmorning on August 24, a 50-year-old male climber fell approximately 120 feet from the top of Bell Buttress, causing fatal injuries. The man and his climbing partner had just completed the second pitch of Cosmosis (5.10a) and were searching f...
Fish and Whistle in Poudre Canyon, with the second and third bolt locations shown. The belay was on the bushy pedestal. Photo by Victor Pinto Mitch, Hunter, and I arrived at the Eden Area, a roadside crag, at around 2 p.m. on May 18. Mitch el...
My husband, Travis, and I were climbing the Culp-Bossier Route (8 pitches, 5.8+) on Hallett Peak on July 7. Five friends of ours were climbing adjacent routes. I’d done Pervertical Sanctuary (5.11a) on the Diamond of Longs Peak two days prior, and...
Around midday on October 5, a male climber fell approximately 25 feet while leading Stoned Oven, a multi-pitch 5.11+ climb on North Chasm View Wall. The climber fell on easier terrain after completing an airy traverse on the sixth pitch of the asc...
I was climbing with three friends in Cascade Canyon on Fourth of July weekend. Luke and Ben had climbed in the area before, but Will and I (female, 20) had not. Will and I chose a route called Funky Crack (5.8 trad) that was well within both of ou...
On Friday, June 21, two climbers from Kansas (ages 23 and 30) drove up to the east side of the Sangre de Cristo Range. Their goal was the Ellingwood Ledges (a.k.a. Ellingwood Arête) on the east side of Crestone Needle. The 2,000-foot route ends at...
On February 23, I (male, 31) went climbing with a small group of friends at the Invisible Wall in Santa Barbara. We are new climbers (less than two years), but I had taken several classes and regularly practiced rope skills at home. Midway through...
On July 28, a male climber (25) was leading the route Fingertrip (5.7) and fell when he was about 45 feet up the first pitch. Nearby climbers, many with medical and rescue training, heard the fall and quickly arrived on scene. They noted that thre...
Late on August 24, a 27-year-old female was descending the Mountaineer’s Route on Mt. Whitney after summiting the peak. At about 13,900 feet, near the top of the big gully that characterizes much of this route, the climber dislodged a three-foot- ...
Two 23-year-old males were descending the L-shaped snow eld below Mt. Sill’s North Couloir in the late afternoon of October 20. Both were wearing helmets and crampons and using ice axes to descend extremely firm, sun-cupped, late-season snow. One ...
On August 23, a party of four was attempting Mt. Sill in the Palisade Range via an unknown route (possibly the North Couloir). The climbers got off-route on the upper section and descended a short distance to reassess. At this point, a large block...