http://www.rexheadd.com/blog A climber's life and perspective Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:52:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The plan was hatched to participate in the HERA Climb4Life weekend about 2 months ago when Ray-Ray sent us all an email with details of the event. Ray lost his mom to ovarian cancer several years ago and wanted to do something that would benefit research and treatment for this ... http://www.rexheadd.com/blog/2008/06/23/hera-climb4life-weekend/ We wrapped up our 2nd day of climbing in the Black Canyon by climbing the Casual Route, a nice 6 pitch 5.8 with a bit of scrambling/bushwhacking at the the end to top out. The weather was much better on day 2 so we were able to concentrate on getting ... http://www.rexheadd.com/blog/2008/06/17/casual-route-climbing-video-black-canyon-of-the-gunnison/ This Memorial Day weekend I was able to finally do a couple routes in the awesome Black Canyon on the Gunnison.  On Saturday we climbed Maiden Voyage, a great intro 4 pitch 5.9 route.  The video from this route can be seen below.  If you are on a broadband connection ... http://www.rexheadd.com/blog/2008/06/12/black-canyon-maiden-voyage/ April 13th, 2008 File this one under something I didn’t think I would do for a long time, climb the ultra-classic line the Yellow Spur in Eldorado Canyon. The Yellow Spur is a beautiful 6 pitch route on the famed Redgarden Wall (look closely for 2 climbers on the crux pitch near the ... http://www.rexheadd.com/blog/2008/04/21/climbing-the-yellow-spur/ This past weekend the gang made the annual pilgrimage over to the desert single track trails of Fruita and Grand Junction. Despite one of us suffering a separated shoulder and myself banging up my knee, spraining a finger, breaking a rear derailleur, and getting 4 flat tires we managed to ... http://www.rexheadd.com/blog/2008/04/11/carnage-in-the-desert/ At the beginning of March the gang invaded the beautiful sandstone of Red Rock just outside of Las Vegas for 3 days of climbing.  Camping out Wednesday night was extremely cold, some Gatorade that was left outside froze overnight so the temps were definitely down in the 20s.  I had ... http://www.rexheadd.com/blog/2008/03/25/climbing-in-red-rock-las-vegas/ Well the ski-mountaineering documentary STEEP finally came Boulder. I had been waiting for this movie to hit Boulder for a long time and couldn't contain myself, I went and watched it right after work at their 5 p.m. showing. The movie definitely didn't disappoint at all, and I ... http://www.rexheadd.com/blog/2008/01/29/s-t-e-e-p/ On Saturday Greg and I met up for some climbing at Hiddens Falls near the Wild Basin area of Rocky Mtn. National Park.  Despite going to far on the trail and having to do some bushwhacking in thigh deep snow, we were the first party to arrive at the falls.  ... http://www.rexheadd.com/blog/2008/01/26/ice-climbing-hidden-falls-rmnp/ These photos are a little late but worth posting nevertheless.  Back in December a crew of 14 invaded the Colorado backcountry near Ashcroft, Colorado.  The Lindley Hut sits at about 10,500 feet deep in the heart of Colorado's magnificent Elk Range.  The week prior to our trip the area received ... http://www.rexheadd.com/blog/2008/01/26/lindley-hut/  One look at the Cynical Pinnacle and I knew I had to join Matt on Saturday to climb it.  The formation attracts climbers from all around and the Center Route has been called the best 5.9 in Colorado.  With a reputation like that, who could say no? The awesome Cynical Pinnacle Matt ... http://www.rexheadd.com/blog/2007/11/04/climbing-the-cynical-pinnacle/