Warm Weather Single Day, Sport Rock Climbing

Climbing Itineraries
Written By Jason Kolaczkowski

Sample Itinerary

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Itinerary for Our Warm Weather Day of Sport Climbing

All itineraries need to placed into a context. The kids would have been five years old at the time. This was a day out in the late summer, at an altitude of ~6,200 feet. The route into the crag was about 0.5mi, one way, with a steep-ish climbers trail from the main trail up to the wall for the last 100 vertical feet. As always, we would follow Leave-No-Trace principles. Conditions were sunny and dry, with a light breeze.

Day -1: Packing and food preparation

Day 1:

  • 4:00am - wake up; get dressed

  • 4:30am - breakfast; load car

  • 6:30am - drive to trailhead

  • 8:00am - arrive at trailhead, gear up

  • 8:15am -begin hike (~0.5mi out)

  • 8:45am - put up first route

  • 9:15am - boys begin climbing

  • 11:45am - lunch

  • 12:30pm -more climbing

  • 3:30pm - pack up

  • 4:00pm - head back to trailhead (~0.5mi back)

  • 4:45pm - arrive at car

  • 7:00pm - arrive at home (dinner in route); unpack

  • 8:00pm - lights out

Jason Kolaczkowski