Mt Evans bouldering area

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Chris Schulte snagging FAs at Mount Evans, Colorado from Black Diamond Equipment on Vimeo.

Black Diamond athlete Chris Schulte sent us the following email and video, wrapping up another great season of bouldering at Mount Evans, Colorado. The video shows Schulte grabbing first ascents of great looking lines from V5 to V12.
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From: Chris Schulte
Subject: RE: Evans video
Date: November 28, 2009 11:37:42 AM MST


Colorado is the place to be in the summertime if you’re asking me.. High alpine valleys, filled with wildflowers and blocks of all shapes, sizes, and grades are hanging around waiting to be climbed: as long as you’re willing to put in some walking. The bouldering near Mt. Evans is a prime example of high country bouldering at its finest, granting good conditions even in mid summer while the towns below simmer in the heat. A selection of granite at almost every grit and grain lies high in the talus or beneath a pine canopy, huffing at around eleven thousand feet. It’s my favorite place to climb in the Front Range area, and I spend most of the summer tromping around the stones, looking for something new to do.

This summer, I heaved through the added approach and spent the majority of my time exploring area B, about an hour and a half from the car. Much of the year, you’d do Grandpa proud: the approach is uphill, both ways, in the snow. But, for the three months or so that it’s not snowing, the wide valley of the Chicago Lakes Basin is a gorgeous palette of columbine and daisy and more. I got distracted early in the season and held off my explorations by the line that would eventually become Sunseeker (V13) at the hands of the visiting Nalle Hukkataival; a few days after his impressive ascent, I finished the climb, and carried on with the cleaning, mapping, and climbing I’d been waiting for. It was a beautiful summer, and I can’t wait to get back next year: so many things got left to the snow! But, the season was fruitful all the same… Here are some highlights, hope you enjoy ‘em !

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