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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:01 pm
by diggum
It's so...it's so...
red. Wow. That's nice.
Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:38 pm
by Hoppinbig
Texaspete,
Best time to climb up there is Jun - Sept (my favorite is Aug and Sept as there are no bugs). Be forewarned the area is not a trad climbing mecca at all, the Monument is the only line of its kind up there. The limestone thats makes up the cliffs is much more suited to great sport climbing (ever place a small nut in limestone - SCARY!).
Let me know if you are coming up - I'd be happy to show you around.
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:37 am
by 512OW
Hoppinbig wrote:Texaspete,
Best time to climb up there is Jun - Sept (my favorite is Aug and Sept as there are no bugs). Be forewarned the area is not a trad climbing mecca at all, the Monument is the only line of its kind up there. The limestone thats makes up the cliffs is much more suited to great sport climbing (ever place a small nut in limestone - SCARY!).
Let me know if you are coming up - I'd be happy to show you around.
A small nut in limestone is scary????? That shit is WAY harder than sandstone....what makes it scary?????
Puss.
Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 3:29 am
by ynot
Thats what I was thinking.But ,then I have seen rotten limestone too.It crumbles just like the rotten sandstone. The difference is the colors. The rotten limestone was grey.Grey sandstone is usually bullet hard.
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:20 pm
by Hoppinbig
512OW wrote:Hoppinbig wrote:Texaspete,
Best time to climb up there is Jun - Sept (my favorite is Aug and Sept as there are no bugs). Be forewarned the area is not a trad climbing mecca at all, the Monument is the only line of its kind up there. The limestone thats makes up the cliffs is much more suited to great sport climbing (ever place a small nut in limestone - SCARY!).
Let me know if you are coming up - I'd be happy to show you around.
A small nut in limestone is scary????? That shit is WAY harder than sandstone....what makes it scary?????
Puss.
I'm not sure what limestone you are talking about... but the limestone we have up here (around Toronto) is damn soft. I've climbed in the Red and all over Tennessee - the sandstone you guys have down there is granite compared to the soft limestone we have - you're a tool 512ow
Texas Pete - summer up here are quite dry - if it does rain limestone dries out real quick - if the roads are dry so too is the rock up here.