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Chappy76
Feb 10, 2010, 3:36 AM
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Has the cliffs at Shelter 1 opened back up yet? Giant City State Park's website hasn't bee updated since June 09. Anyone know?
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shrug7
Feb 10, 2010, 2:05 PM
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They closed them?
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Chappy76
Feb 10, 2010, 2:09 PM
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Yep. They were closed back in July when I went there.
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shrug7
Feb 10, 2010, 3:18 PM
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Dang it... first Drappers, now this...
Where O where is the Access Fund...?
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cornstateclimber
Feb 10, 2010, 5:26 PM
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pretty soon we we will be stuck with palisades park and when that happens im definently moving!!! drapers is such a dissapointment! to the climbers that frequent place such as myself and to eric too. he worked so hard on it!
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Chappy76
Feb 10, 2010, 8:50 PM
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I'll call up to Giant City to figure out what's going on. According to their website a lot of the park was shut down from the storm they had...in MAY 09! There should be no reason for it to be closed this long.
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shrug7
Feb 10, 2010, 10:03 PM
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ya... and that place.. i'd rather go to a gym.
Good that Giant City is still open.
One day I'm confidant that Eric can reopen Drapers. as soon as IL changes it's laws.
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keenan
Feb 11, 2010, 12:13 AM
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My question is why are you so worried about shelter one with the amount of climbing in SOILL? Shelter one is alright but come on.
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shrug7
Feb 11, 2010, 2:58 AM
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it's the snowball effect.
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keenan
Feb 11, 2010, 11:07 AM
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This is true, I grew up in southern illinois and it will be a sad day when I go home and cannot climb. So is it the whole park or just shelter one?
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shrug7
Feb 11, 2010, 12:46 PM
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From what Chappy said, they posted on the internets that Shelter 1 was closed due to a storm but reopened later. The state never updated their site that it was open again.
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keenan
Feb 11, 2010, 8:36 PM
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An interesting tidbit about shelter 1 bluff, City Limits-5.12+ opened up in 1976 one of the first in the country.
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afalk1
Mar 10, 2010, 7:26 PM
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Just got back from Giant City and they opened the road to shelter 1 today
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Chappy76
Mar 13, 2010, 8:54 PM
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Sweet. I guess the reason I like going there is if I'm limited on time, due to my schedule, it's easier to do a day trip there.
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healyje
Feb 25, 2012, 9:31 AM
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shrug7 wrote: ya... and that place.. i'd rather go to a gym.
Hard to image, is it more about about clipping bolts and being able to dog or about the movement? If about the movement, then those overhanging GC TR routes are pure joy even if you can't hang on them.
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