ABSTRACT
The “sixties” is a concept rather than a precisely defined chronological period; more a state of mind than a sequence of years. To those who know Colorado climbing, mention of the sixties often stimulates a particular facial expression. One of the problems facing a beginner in Colorado was that there never existed a regular congregating place for climbers. During the late fifties and early sixties, Sink served the function to some extent, but it was only occasionally frequented by a small number of climbers. In 1960 Culp made the acquaintance of Layton Kor and was introduced to the inner sanctum of experienced rock climbers in the Boulder region. A shared joke among local climbers was the question of what would happen if anyone ever had to catch LaGrange in a leader fall. Climbers from the Aspen area have done further exploration and report excellent new routes on a number of buttresses of igneous rock which intrude into the sedimentary limestone.
