> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://blog.novaugust.net/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Red Rocks - URL: https://blog.novaugust.net/red-rocks-2/ - Published: 2016-11-16T17:33:39.000Z - Updated: 2017-02-16T23:32:19.000Z - Author: Matt Enlow - Tags: red rocks, @christophertrudeau, post, Climbing, @skrotdisa, nevada, Desert Season '16, #Import 2026-06-21 14:43 The Red Rocks climbing was sporadic at the start of Desert Season, what with the trip to [Limekiln](https://blog.novaugust.net/limekiln-canyon/) in the middle of it. I rolled into Red Rocks campground late at night and found campsite 32 empty apart from a water jug. I had been expecting to find Dave and Disa, two friends I hadn't seen in over a year, so was a little let down at my anticlimactic arrival. But! When they arrived! There was much cheering and jubilation, and a fair bit of Hendricks neat. ### The Pier When we rolled up to The Pier next morning we were the only folks there. So after I hung draws on the warmup, **Under the Boardwalk**, 11a, I traversed right and set up the static on the next route over, confident I wouldn't be in anyone's way. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/11/P3340544.jpg) Disa took a good rope-burn of a whipper on the first bolt of **Under The Boardwalk** while earning her sandstone wings. Then the crowds arrived, and I was committing a faux pas by taking up a route. I snapped a buddy of Dave's from Yosemite on **Geometric Progression**, 12b, and came down. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/11/P3340552.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/11/P3340556.jpg) Dave and I also did **Geometric Progression**, then the three of us bailed out to Second Pullout (a bit of a walk, but we had it all to ourselves). ### Stone Wall Disa put up **Haunted Hooks**, something Trudeau and I had done the year before, and Dave and I followed. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/11/P3340570.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/11/P3340594.jpg) With the sun getting low, we fought to get in one more pitch in the adjacent canyon and climbed the ever-so-sweet **Sweet Pain**, 11d. Shenanigans were involved, but only Disa has photographic proof. ### Cannibal Crag When we got back from Limekiln Darren took Dave's place and joined Disa and I for an after-work climbing bonanza at *Cannibal Crag* (the post cover). ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/11/P3340751.jpg) *Dare-bear* I was shut down hard on the warmup, which Darren had warned me might happen. When I came back to redpoint **Have A Beer With Fear**, 11a, I graded it 11c. She's missing some holds up there bub. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/11/P3340752.jpg) Disa successfully got a second rope burn that day on an 11b with arete slapping, knee bars and big moves: **Caustic Cock**. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/11/P3340763.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/11/P3340768.jpg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9b/95/9b955960-2312-4b04-8b46-7e66317cd0ed/content/images/2016/11/P3340798.jpg) The very short approach and great climbing brought us back again the next day. Another "oh my god this is 11a?! Red Rocks is not soft!" warmup for us (**Elbows of Mac and Ronnie**, then off to try hard. I seemingly broke the first joint on all of my fingers crimping *as hard as I could* on **Save the Heart to Eat Later**. After repeatedly falling at the fourth or so bolt the rain called quits to any further efforts. We ended the trip with some swimming and a hot tub at a hotel back in town (thanks for the hookup Hong), then hit the road for St. George. ##### Climbs - **Under The Boardwalk** 11a - **Geometric Progression** 12b - **Sweet Pain** 11d - **Have A Beer With Fear** 11c - **Caustic Cock** 11b - **Elbows of Mac and Ronnie** 11b - **Save the Heart to Eat Later** 12a