Guidebook invites new chapter for climbing area in Colorado Springs

A new guidebook features "The Sanctum," a remote rock climbing area in southwest Colorado Springs. The site includes a granite wall among 300 routes across various local crags. Previously known to only a few dedicated climbers, the area is now being shared with a wider audience.
For generations, Colorado Springs’ most dedicated rock climbers have known of a remote pocket deep in the city’s southwest mountains where the sun hardly shines, blocked by tall timber and a towering, enticing wall of granite. This is The Sanctum, home to only a handful of routes amid 300 across many other mighty crags described […]
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