Strategies for Climbing In the Black Canyon
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Strategies for Climbing In the Black Canyon

Colorado’s world famous Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park (aka The Black) is known for its outstanding natural beauty and concentration of wonderfully challenging multi-pitch traditional rock climbs. Perhaps the most well known of these is the aptly named Scenic Cruise, included in Steck and Roper’s “Fifty Classic Climbs of North America”. Learn strategies for climbing the classic Scenic Cruise and other routes in the Black Canyon…

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Dark Arts
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Dark Arts

Let’s face it, dry tooling by its essence is weird. You’re scratching around on rock with sharp, hook shaped claws on your hands and feet, and for your hands they’re on the end of sticks giving you significant extra reach.

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