Climbing at Rattler Gulch, MT

Scraping some of the Rust Off after 35 Years

April 2016

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I stopped technical climbing about 35 years ago when I left Boulder, Colorado, bought a ranch on the west slope, and spent most of what spare time I had exploring rivers. I've missed climbing off and on over the years, but never had a partner to climb with. I've got a new neighbor who likes to climb so it's my golden opportunity to pick up kind of where I left off.

So Tom and I headed down to Mulkey Gulch, near Drummond, Montana, for an afternoon in the sun.

I don't know what the routes we did are named, but one of these days we'll find out. Tom led the first route up to a bolted anchor, where we set up a toprope to work on the other routes which shared that anchor.


Tom leading the first route (Don't Put Your Hand In It? (5.8))


Tom doing another route on top rope (Snake Eye? (5.8))


Mug shot	Gary on top rope