Utah Climbing Records

Climbing the Bandito Route on the Mexican Hat

Event Type Record Holder Time Date Notes Full Results
Mexican Hat team Bill Wright and George Bell 5m33s 10/12/02 Up the Bandito Route (a total of six bolts). A good aid climber could probably do this route in less than 2 minutes.
Castleton Tower team ? ? ? Kor-Ingalls Route  
Triple Towers team Fred Knapp and Alan Lester one day Summer '91 Climbed Primrose Dihedrals on Moses, Lightning Bolt Cracks on North Six Shooter, and the Kor-Ingalls on Castleton Tower. They did is roundtrip from Boulder in 30 hours. The crux was the driving and waiting out the thunderstorms.  
Castle Valley Ridge team Craig Luebben and Brian Edmiston one day 10/04 Climbed Ja Man (10+) on Sister Superior, Honeymoon Chimney (11-) on the Priest, Fine Jade (11) on the Rectory, and Kor-Ingalls (9+) on Castleton.  
Battle of the Bulge toprope Jeff Achey 35s ? This is a continuous 5.11 lieback on the Battle of the Bulge Wall at Indian Creek. Eric Bjornstadt reported this time. Jimmy Dunn did it in 45s.  
Titan - Finger of Fate team Duane and Lisa Raleigh 3h22m '94 or '95 This was Duane's second ascent of the route. He thinks it can "easily go in 2 hours flat."  
Kingfisher - Colorado Route team Duane and Lisa Raleigh 1h20m '94 or '95    
Ancient Art team Duane and Lisa Raleigh 18m '94 or '95 18 minutes!!!  
Echo Tower - Phantom Sprint (Spirit?) team Duane and Lisa Raleigh 5h5m '94 or '95 Onsight ascent  
Cottontail Tower - West Side Story team Duane and Lisa Raleigh 8h15m '94 or '95 Onsight ascent  
Steorts Ridge solo Ryan McDermott 9m48s 8/03 This is a 3-pitch 5.6 route with a significant descent and steep approach.
Total vertical gain is 450 feet, roundtrip distance is about mile, so this is literally running up a climb.
Jared Campbell told me about this and he made a movie about this ascent: Check it out at here. This is a 100 MB quicktime movie.