Some of My Trip Reports
I’ve been climbing a lot of long, moderate routes lately (my favorite kind of climbing) and here are the trip reports I’ve written up. All of the routes are here in Utah.
- A Solo Ascent of Geurt’s Ridge (5.5, 1,500′) on Mt. Olympus
- Climbing (and Rappelling) Wilson’s Arch Near Moab, Utah
- The 2nd (?) Ascent of Grumpies, Harkonnen Castle, Arches National Park
- My Second Time Up Ancient Art (5.9 C0, 4 pitches)—Topo and Photos
- Climbing Led By Sheep (5.7, 800’) on Aries Butte in Zion National Park
New Route Potential #10: Devetashka Cave, Bulgaria
Ideal Climber Houses #12: Aescher-Wildkirchli on Säntis (that’s the name of the mountain), Switzerland
Gym climbing on real rock.
Wait, what? This is in China and I’ve seen this sort of thing a couple times there. Sad. [via]
Ideal climber houses #10 - Konigssee Lake, Berchtesgaden National Park, Germany
Rhumsiki, Cameroon. [via]
Ideal climber houses #9: Catacombs in Turkey
[Source]
Ideal Climber Houses #8, in Norway
[Source]
New route potential #7: Dragon Falls, Venezuela
Jungly big walls and towers, anyone?
The ultimate highball boulder, located in Namibia. [Source]
Two New Trip Reports and an Open Invitation for More
I’ve posted a couple climbing new trip reports to my personal blog in the last week:
- Squawstruck Beta, Topo, and First Ascent History - About a route that took me 2.5 years to establish and is the longest sport climb in Utah (at 1,900’).
- Climbing Idaho’s Longest Sport Climbs in the City of Rocks - A photo TR of what I think are the two longest sport climbs in Idaho (at 650’ and 500’ long, respectively).
I love reading TRs and would be more than happy to link to anyone’s trip reports. In fact, I’d love to make a weekly list of people’s new trip reports. So if you’ve posted a climbing trip report (it can be on Tumblr, on a different blog, or on a forum or something), let me know via the Contact page.




![Rhumsiki, Cameroon. [via]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1h5pqwSGm1r931g9o1_1280.jpg)
![Ideal climber houses #9: Catacombs in Turkey[Source]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m11ct50fxP1r931g9o1_1280.jpg)
![Ideal Climber Houses #8, in Norway[Source]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0jtecO2A91r931g9o1_1280.jpg)

![The ultimate highball boulder, located in Namibia. [Source]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzvfpsq8z21r931g9o1_1280.jpg)


