Wolf's Tooth, Lumpy Ridge, Co

Jason Estes and myself climbed the ever classic Wolf's Tooth 5.8+ on the Twin Owls of Lumpy Ridge this past weekend.

Having climbed a majority of the other classic crack climbing routes on the ridge I'd definitely say that this is one of the best so far....Lots of off- width crack technique employed, including some full body squeeze chimney to boot...Physical...to say the least...Combine it with Conan's Gonads ( 150 feet of 5.9 hand and fist jamming ) for the first pitch up to the roosting ramp, makes this one sweet crack climbing link- up...Highly recommended!

Twin Owls formation. Wolfs tooth climbs up the opposite side of the semi-detached pillar on the left side of the photo...

A better Perspective...Closer and from the other side...





The sweetest link- up. Conan's Gonads to Wolf's Tooth....




Jason Estes doing battle with Conan....This 5.9 is as steep and physical as it looks!

Feeling a little nervous.....

The off-width start to Wolfs Tooth...

The awesome view back down the chimney of the Tooth....

J2 sporting a nice fist jam near the end of the pitch....

After one more funky 5.7 pitch we were standing on the summit....Totally awesome climb and one that I look forward to repeating.... after my body recovers.....

Peace, Jason

Pingora 11,884

After our well deserved rest day we set our focus on climbing Pingora by way of the East Face Left Side cracks 5.7 IV about 1500feet. With some beta from Cory and Liz , we were stoked to climb this route which is supposedly better than the other 50 classic that was just around the corner, but loaded with other climbing parties.....We, on the other hand, had this route all to ourselves....

We started about two or three cracks to the right of the shaded dihedral in the center of the photo..


Aaron leading pitch two...some more Cracks from hands to off -width body jams...this route had it all...

Aaron probably leading Pitch four right before we started simul-climbing for about 500 feet.

The view down looking at Lonesome lake and Mitchell peak from about 2/3 the way up Pingora

Aaron following the last pitch.... More sweet jamming....

Summit!! Visible from right to left Wolfs Head 12,163, Overhanging Tower 12,164, Sharks Nose 12,229, Block Tower 12,210 , Watchtower 12,288

Plenty of climbing still to be done and I will definitely be making return trips to the Winds...

I feel that I only got a small taste of the climbing to be done in the Wind Rivers which makes me want more.....

Id like to thank Aaron for making this trip happen for me( enduring those tooth aches until the pain meds kicked in) as well as Cory and Liz for being so awesome and showing us this incredible climbing area.

Peace, Jason

:The Winds post below is actually suppose to come before this post :