Boy Scout Road Climbing

This digital Boy Scout Road climbing guidebook gives you GPS navigation, verified topos, and beta for hundreds of climbs. Explore classics and hidden gems with offline access to maps, directions, and beta videos. Whether it's your first visit or fiftieth, KAYA makes your Boy Scout Road days smoother, safer, and more dialed.

The climbing areas located off the Boy Scout Rd (CR 68C) comprise some of the largest and oldest areas in all of Red Feather Lakes. This famous road connects the alpine plateau of Red Feather with the winding river of the Poudre Canyon. The climbing here is very diverse and expansive. There are areas close to parking lots like the Meadow Boulders, and there are things like the Pit and the Pā that take an hour or more to get to. Bouldering is the majority of the climbing here, but recent activity has provided a decent collection of trad and sport routes too.The climbi... Show more

This digital Boy Scout Road climbing guidebook gives you GPS navigation, verified topos, and beta for hundreds of climbs. Explore classics and hidden gems with offline access to maps, directions, and beta videos. Whether it's your first visit or fiftieth, KAYA makes your Boy Scout Road days smoother, safer, and more dialed. The climbing areas located off the Boy Scout Rd (CR 68C) comprise some of the largest and oldest areas in all of Red Feather Lakes. This famous road connects the alpine plateau of Red Feather with the winding river of the Poudre Canyon. The climbing here is very diverse and expansive. There are areas close to parking lots like the Meadow Boulders, and there are things like the Pit and the Pā that take an hour or more to get to. Bouldering is the majority of the climbing here, but recent activity has provided a decent collection of trad and sport routes too.The climbing history is long and expansive here, starting with the Ben Delatour Boy Scout Ranch. This massive campus is filled with tons of granite domes and boulders. It is no surprise that in the mid-1970s climbers Andy Hibl and Bill Nelson started a mountaineering program for the scouts and likely were the first to summit the major domes on the property. In the following years, counselors and scouts continued to develop fantastic routes on most of the major formations. Turn to pages 38–39 to learn more.The Boy Scout Rd (CR 68C) has been a climbing resource for lots of climbers outside the camp as well. Geoff Sluyter is credited for being the pioneer at areas like the Ceremonies and West Elkhorn Creek. Jacob Ojile, Jason Tarry, Dave Ludders, Jeremy Bisher, Cam Cross, Collin Kopitzke, Jason Nadeau, Aaron Ramras, Matt Robbin, and the author have developed numerous boulder problems across all of the Boy Scout Road areas over the past two decades.Route climbing in the area goes back to the mid-80s, with climbers Mark Guzman, Bill Alexander, Mike Lawson, Pat McInearney, and Ron Bourett developing classic routes at the Swallows Crags. In more recent times, climbers like Jeff Snyder and Josh Cook have spent a significant amount of time developing the cliffs of Dome with a View and Pot of Gold Wall. There are still hundreds and hundreds of boulder problems and short routes left to be developed off the Boy Scout Rd (CR 68C). Get after it!