SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
9 a.m. [Feline Parking Lot] Check-in begins.
- A minimum donation of $10 is required, but $20 is appreciated!
10 a.m. [Feline parking lot] Clean-up Projects assigned.
- Volunteers with tools (gloves, pry-bars, shovels, drills) needed!
10 a.m.—4 p.m. [Feline Parking Lot]
- Five Ten shoe demo
- Buy your annual Rifle Mountain Park parking pass.
6:30 p.m. [Community House]
- Turn in Your SPEW scorecard
- Buy more raffle tickets
- Drink delicious beer
- Eat delicious food grilled up by Chef Jed
- Wear your costume
8:30 p.m. [Community House]
- Raffle
9:00 p.m. [Community House]
- Dance party begins
Clean-Up Projects List
Project Wall retaining wall improvements
Team Leader: Darek Krol
- Goal: Make wall sturdier and wider with flatter belay surfaces
- 4-6 volunteers
- Gloves, pry-bars, shovels, drill
Trail-building Improvements to the Sanctuary
Team Leader: Jeremy Hensel
- Goal: Flatten belays and add stairs to routes
- Shovels, pick-axes, pry-bars, gloves
- 2-4 volunteers
Fallen Tree Removal
Team Leader: Chris Kalous
- Goal: Remove tree in Arsenal, improve trail to Red Dawn(?)
- Needed 2 volunteers with chainsaws
Fire-pit cleaning: BBQ pits in park and campground
Team Leader:
- Garbage bags, gloves, shovels
- 2-4 volunteers
Fixed-Aluminum/Nylon Quickdraw removal
Team Leader: Andrew Bisharat
- Goal: remove abandoned quickdraws on the following routes:
- Simply Read
- Strange Ranger
- Huge/Girl Talk
- Bauhaus Proklamation
- The Crew
- Cryptic Egyptian
- Charleston Choss
- 7 PM Show
- Dumpster BBQ
- Lung Fish
- Colinator
Anchor Replacement/Update
Team Leader: Kenny Barker, Sam Elias
- Hardware: 5 Climb Tech Anchor Kits, ???Camp anchor kits.
- Tools: Wrenches to tighten quicklinks
- Goal: Either replace anchors with new bolts/quicklinks/steel biners, or simply add steel biners/quicklinks to existing bolts.
- Sometimes Always
- Cryptic Egyptian
- I am not a Philistine
- Anti-Phil
- Rumor Has It
- Gay Science
- Gropius
- Bauhaus Proklamation
- Huge
- The Crew
- Strange Ranger
- Apocalypse
- Present Tense
- Mouse Trap
- Bride of Frankenstein
- Supre Guide
- Continental Call
- Euro-Trash (Joel is doing this)
- Spurta-tron (just needs steel biners)
Retro-bolting
Team Leaders: Dave Pegg, Mike Schneiter
Hardware: 50 1/2″ x 2.75″ stainless 5-piece, 50 Petzl hangers, 30 glue-in bolts (standard length Fixe), 6 1/2″ bits, 30 large (3/8″) stainless quicklinks (316ss), 4 tubes of patch epoxy (good for dozens of bolts each)
Tools: Cordless drill/bolting kit
Goal: Fix bad bolts on routes, fix bad anchors, and replace certain routes with glue-ins,
- Specimen: update with Glue-ins
- Dirt: update with Glue-ins
- Replace second bolt on Roadside
- Replace fourth bolt on Hang em High
- Add bolt to Ricochet down low
- Re-bolt Community Service, moving anchors too
- Replace anchors on Sometimes Always
- Replace anchors on Bride of Frankenstein
- Replace anchors on Spurtatron
- Pistola: bolt moving? New Anchors?
- Ivory Tower: reachy clips? Move anchors?
- Merry Maids: patch holes, cut old studs, replace righ anchor bolt
- Second bolt on Choss loose?
Perma Draws added:
Team Leader: Andrew Bisharat
Hardware: 30 perma-draws
Goal: add steel to these routes:
- Simply Read
- Huge
- 7 PM Show
- Euro-Trash
Damn I wish I lived in Colorado. I would so love to help with this.
AB-We would like to sponsor. Won’t be up there, but what can we do?