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D1 (Longs Peak)
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The D1 is the original technical climbing
route up The Diamond
of Longs Peak
. In 1954, when National Park Service
was petitioned to allow climbing on The Diamond they responded with an official closure. Climbing on The Diamond was banned until 1960. When the ban was lifted in 1960, Dave Rearick
and Bob Kamps
were the first to climb the Diamond via a route that would come to be known simply as D1. This route would latter be listed in Allen Steck and Steve Roper's influential book Fifty Classic Climbs of North America
. Today the route is not necessarily regarded as the best of its grade on The Diamond, some consider other routes to be of higher quality. The easiest and most popular route on the face, the Casual Route
(5.10-), was first climbed in 1977.
Rock climbing
Rock climbing also lightly called 'The Gravity Game', is a sport in which participants climb up, down or across natural rock formations or artificial rock walls. The goal is to reach the summit of a formation or the endpoint of a pre-defined route without falling...
route up The Diamond
The Diamond (Longs Peak)
The Diamond is the sheer and prominent east face of Longs Peak and named for the shape of the cliff. The face has a vertical gain of more than 900 feet all above an elevation of 13,000 feet...
of Longs Peak
Longs Peak
Longs Peak is one of the 53 mountains with summits over 14,000 feet in Colorado. It can be prominently seen from Longmont, Colorado, as well as from the rest of the Colorado Front Range. It is named after Major Stephen Long, who explored the area in the 1820s...
. In 1954, when National Park Service
National Park Service
The National Park Service is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations...
was petitioned to allow climbing on The Diamond they responded with an official closure. Climbing on The Diamond was banned until 1960. When the ban was lifted in 1960, Dave Rearick
Dave Rearick
Dave Rearick is an American rock climber and mathematician. A pioneer of Yosemite's golden age of climbing, Rearick - frequently climbing with Bob Kamps – was instrumental in shifting the focus from aid climbing to free climbing in the 1950s....
and Bob Kamps
Bob Kamps
Bob Kamps was an American rock climber whose climbing career spanned five decades. Born in Wisconsin, he began climbing in California in 1955, and was a member of that cadre of Yosemite pioneers who first ascended many of its great walls in the 1950s and 1960s...
were the first to climb the Diamond via a route that would come to be known simply as D1. This route would latter be listed in Allen Steck and Steve Roper's influential book Fifty Classic Climbs of North America
Fifty Classic Climbs of North America
Fifty Classic Climbs Of North America is a climbing guidebook and history written by Steve Roper and Allen Steck. It is considered a definitive piece of climbing literature, known to many climbers as simply "The Book", and has served as an inspiration for more recent climbing books, such as Mark...
. Today the route is not necessarily regarded as the best of its grade on The Diamond, some consider other routes to be of higher quality. The easiest and most popular route on the face, the Casual Route
Casual Route (Longs Peak)
The Casual Route is the easiest technical climbing route up The Diamond of Longs Peak.- External links :****...
(5.10-), was first climbed in 1977.