Lower Canyon Climbing

This digital Lower Canyon 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 Lower Canyon days smoother, safer, and more dialed.

The Lower Canyon is the oldest and consequently most trafficked portion of the canyon. The most popular roped climbing areas lie here, areas like Greyrock, the Palace, Crystal Wall and Upper Echelon dominate the Lower Canyon. The newer areas described in this book are also worth a visit for any rock climber including Happy Hour Crag and Brink's Rock which hold quality new routes. Bouldering in the Lower Canyon was typically not well known besides Greyrock. But Mike’s Roof, French Arête and Pine Vu are all worthy after work spots for any bouldering enthusiast. The climbin... Show more

This digital Lower Canyon 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 Lower Canyon days smoother, safer, and more dialed. The Lower Canyon is the oldest and consequently most trafficked portion of the canyon. The most popular roped climbing areas lie here, areas like Greyrock, the Palace, Crystal Wall and Upper Echelon dominate the Lower Canyon. The newer areas described in this book are also worth a visit for any rock climber including Happy Hour Crag and Brink's Rock which hold quality new routes. Bouldering in the Lower Canyon was typically not well known besides Greyrock. But Mike’s Roof, French Arête and Pine Vu are all worthy after work spots for any bouldering enthusiast. The climbing history is deep here as well. Spanning several generations starting most prominently with the adventures of Rodney Ley and Steve Allen, next would be the massive wave of development in the 90s to early 2000s that resulted in development or re-writing of the major areas. Tim Wilhelmi, Steve McCorkel, Paul Heyliger, Derek Peavey, Judson Doyle, Sam Shannon, Ken Gibson, Bryan Beavers and many others sunk the bolts that built the most popular route climbing areas in the canyon. The Lower Canyon is considered the stretch of highway between Ted’s Place and Stove Prairie Road; the closest portion of the canyon to Fort Collins. If you only have enough time for a half-day of climbing, this is where you will be.