80 Feet of Meat is a 5.11b YDS sport located in Rifle > Rifle Mtn Park > Meat Wall. First ascent by Lori Mason, Eric Johnson. As Rifle's favorite warm-up, this elegant line now sports footholds the color of tarmac, only with much less traction. Nevertheless, it is an engaging, sustained line on a perfect vertical wall, tackling 80 feet of some of the most fun limestone climbing in Colorado. There is often a line for this route in the mornings, but if you're willing to come a bit later and climb it in the sun or toward evening you shouldn't have much trouble getting on. 80 Feet of Meat is the first route to your right at the top of the steps and climbs off the left side of a ledge onto the brown face above. Save some guns for the pumpy/funky moves in the exit groove -- it's harder than it looks. It is a 25 meter pitch. Protection: 12-14 quickdraws.
Apocalypse is a 5.13c YDS sport, 90 ft (27 m) located in Rifle > Rifle Mtn Park > Project Wall. First ascent by Kurt Smith and Mike Pont for the original, Andy Raether for the extension. Seeing as how the original anchors are gone now, I figured the route description could use an update. This is the easiest of the king lines at the Project Wall. Begin at the far right side of the Project Wall Cave on a pile of solidified rubble below an attractive blue streak. The route basically breaks down into two sections: a power endurance boulder problem with a finicky kneebar (or not) in the first six bolts to a very nice rest, followed by some awesome endurance 5.12 climbing and a tricky little boulder to the chains. Some will argue that the addition of 20 extra feet does not warrant the .13c rating, but a few intricate sequences above the original finish may make you feel justified in taking the higher grade when you make it to the anchor. It is an excellent route of very high quality. Protection: It is between Mouse Trap and The Gay Science.
Apocalypse '91 is a 5.13b YDS sport located in Rifle > Rifle Mtn Park > Project Wall. First ascent by Kurt Smith, Mike Pont. This killer route climbs takes the very overhanging line just right of the cave in the center of the Project Wall, starting out of the dirt in the parking lot and not up in the cave itself. It can be recognized by a bulbous, blue tufa that gives way to very overhanging white rock at the start. Sustained, cruxy climbing through the middle gives way to a rest, then another powerful bulge and a finishing headwall on depressingly slippery crimpers. This is a long pitch, bolted in the days when routes ended at half a rope length no matter what. Thusly, don't be discouraged when you find the finishing "jug" at the anchors is actually a flat sloper. Many people hang a long sling or two off the anchors and grab those once they have the sloper, before clipping. Were this route extended, even just another 10 meters, it would surely be much, much harder. Nevertheless, it is a Rifle classic and a must-do at the grade. Kneebar trickery gets you through the lower crux. Ask a local for beta. Protection: 15 quickdraws and a 60 meter rope (though a 50 meter should suffice).
Baby Brothers is a 5.12a YDS sport, 70 ft (21 m) located in Rifle > Rifle Mtn Park > Bauhaus Wall. First ascent by unknown. Climb The Brothers Carruthersov to the first set of anchors, just above the Diving Board, and it's a nice 12a. Start by climbing the lower, rotten face with a fixed rope. Above the ledge, pull a set of steep, bouldery moves. Move up and right for a little crux. Get some good rest and finish with the final little crux in a groove below the Diving Board feature. Protection: Go left from where the trail meets the wall and look for a chunk of rope hanging on the lower section of wall. The route is downhill and right of the 5.11s on the left side of the Bauhaus.
Baby Jesus is a 5.12b YDS sport, 90 ft (27 m) located in Rifle > Rifle Mtn Park > Project Wall. First ascent by unknown. This is the intro pitch into MC 900 Ft Jesus, which recently got its own bolted anchor. It is a fantastic addition to the climbs at Project Wall. Climb the slightly overhanging orange rock with a plethora of right-facing holds. This has great friction for now. Smear your feet through a couple of cruxes, and enjoy the ride. Protection: Twenty feet right of Bottom Feeder, find the flat, featured orange face with a blue streak at the top. Climb the crumbly base to get to the high first bolt.
Barry Lyndon is a 5.11c YDS sport, 80 ft (24 m) located in Rifle > Rifle Mtn Park > Kubrick's. First ascent by MJM & RAMM, 7/2018. Begin with a tricky, tough, low roof start to C1. Follow the fingery seam past 3 clips to a small, grayish, bulgy slab near C4. Move left then up to a stance on top of the grayish, bulgy slab. Follow vertical climbing on good hand holds and feet past several clips to the anchors. Protection: Start several feet left of Jack Torrance.
Beer Run is a 5.13a YDS sport, 100 ft (30 m) located in Rifle > Rifle Mtn Park > Ruckman Cave. First ascent by Scott Frye, 1990s. This is an incredible route -- you may recognize it from the cover shot on the first Rifle guidebook by Hassan Saab. It is a long, airy pitch on the beautiful white and blue streaked wall left of the Ruckman Cave. Beer Run is the rightmost of a quartet of long, "slabby" routes on the towering wall left of Ruckman and can be recognized by an often-fixed long draw at the lower crux. It climbs just left of a huge round bowl at mid-height on the cliff-band and tackles a series of well-chalked laybacks. Pass an initial bolt or two to reach a ledge (5.10) then step onto the wall and begin laybacking. The laybacks soon become thinner and you're forced to crimp a bit before a pumpy crux deposits you at an awesome resting hole. Surge up and right from the hole onto the expansive headwall and save some juice for the 5.9+ run-out to the anchors. This brilliant line is a testimony to the power of beer and to one man's courageous journey down to the distant village of Rifle to procure a six-pack prior to the first ascent. Protection: 14 quickdraws and a 60 meter rope (mandatory). Per Michael Schneiter, the 6th bolt has been replaced.
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🪩 DISCO, DISCO… EH?! 🧗♀️✨ We’re turning the lights down and the stoke up for a Disco Themed Climbing Night you do NOT want to miss, in celebration of our 1 Year Anniversary! (Check out all the events of the weekend here: https://mailchi.mp/50461f2deb75/1stanniversary) 💿 Live DJ 💡 Disco lights! 🎟️ Buy 1 Get 1 FREE day passes 📅 March 6, 2025 ⏰ 6–9 PM Costumes / disco wear encouraged! Whether you’re coming to send your project under the disco ball or just vibe with your crew and climb to the beat, this is your excuse to dust off the neon and party on the wall. Tag your climbing partner, grab your BOGO buddy, and let’s light up the gym. 🕺🔥
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🎉 WE'RE TURNING ONE! 🎉 Join us as we celebrate Rifle Climbing Center’s 1st Anniversary Party - our biggest party of the year! 🧗♂️🥳 📅 March 6–8, 2026 📍 139 W. 3rd St., Rifle, CO We’ve got a full weekend of fun lined up: ✨ Climbing comp and theme nights 🎟️ Raffles & prizes 🎁 Giveaways 🤝 Demos …Check here for more details and the event schedule (https://mailchi.mp/50461f2deb75/1stanniversary)! 🔥 BONUS: Enjoy 50% OFF Day Passes all day Saturday (3/7)! Perfect time to bring a friend and celebrate with us on the wall. Save the date, grab your crew, and come celebrate an incredible first year of climbing, community, and growth at RCC. We couldn’t have done it without you! 💛
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This wild, funny, and deeply moving journey follows Patrick McCollum directed by filmmaker Gabe Polsky—an unlikely peace advocate drawn into an Indigenous prophecy that may determine the fate of the Amazon and our planet. Part comedy, part spiritual quest, the film invites audiences to laugh, reflect, and reconsider what responsibility to the Earth truly looks like. Backed by trailblazers in conservation and entertainment—including Jane Goodall, Peter Farrelly, Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, and Jody Hill—the documentary blends humor, heart, and urgency in a way that transcends categories. It was recently selected by The Hollywood Reporter as one of the Top 6 documentaries of the year.
Atlanta-based musician Tinsley Ellis—known for decades as one of the greatest electric blues-rock guitarists of his generation—is now also recognized as one of the very best contemporary acoustic blues guitarists, songwriters and performers in the world. With 2024’s critically acclaimed, Blues Music Award-nominated Naked Truth, Ellis unplugged with his first-ever acoustic album. On it he mixed his own striking original songs—inspired by Son House, Skip James, Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters—with a few reinvented covers. According to No Depression, “Even though it’s just Ellis and his acoustic guitars, there’s plenty of hell-raisin’ blues going on. With the ghost of Elmore James looking over his shoulder and Wolf leaning in...Ellis proves he’s an icon.” Now, with his new album, Labor Of Love, Ellis delivers a raw, edgy, self-produced set of 13 original compositions, all performed with pure, emotional honesty. 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Later, Ellis performed with Holmes at his famous Blue Front Café, soaking up every moment. “Once I got home,” notes Ellis, “I went right back to the studio and incorporated everything that I just experienced into my music.” For the album, Ellis used six different open tunings on his beloved 1969 Martin D-35, his 12-string Martin D-12-20, and his 1937 National Steel O Series guitars. He also, for the first time in his career, played mandolin on three of the album’s songs. The instrumentation and the tunings, he notes, create endless possibilities, and he finds himself constantly invigorated by the music. Since the 2024 release of Naked Truth, Ellis has been travelling on his own, performing solo all over the country in his jokingly named “Two Guitars And A Car” tour. For Ellis, playing solo, acoustic blues has helped him tap into the raw essence of the music. “I love doing these shows,” Ellis says, with plans to continue touring solo for the foreseeable future. “No matter what I play, I like to have an edge. For me, just playing this music is a labor of love. I sat at the feet of Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Howlin’ Wolf. I got into this music because of them. I always told myself if I could just make a living playing the blues, I’d be, at least in my own mind, successful.” Premier Guitar believes he’s more than reached that goal, declaring, “Ellis is a legend of American blues music...he’s an American music treasure. He delivers a sermon on the power and glory of the blues, and is one of modern blues’ greatest performers.” BIOGRAPHY Tinsley Ellis has been immersed in music his whole life. Born in Atlanta 1957 and raised in southern Florida, he acquired his first guitar at age seven, inspired by seeing The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show. He took to guitar instantly, developing and sharpening his skills as he grew up. Like many kids his age, Ellis discovered the blues through the back door of British Invasion bands like The Yardbirds, The Animals, Cream and The Rolling Stones as well as Southern rockers like The Allman Brothers. One afternoon in 1972, he and a friend went to see B.B. King perform at a “teen show” at a local hotel lounge. As fate would have it, King broke a guitar string while playing, and after changing it without missing a beat, he handed the broken string to young Tinsley. And yes, Tinsley still has that string. Less than three years later, Ellis, already an accomplished teenaged musician, left Florida and moved to Atlanta. He soon joined a hard-driving local blues band, the Alley Cats. In 1981, along with veteran blues singer and harpist Chicago Bob Nelson, Tinsley formed The Heartfixers, a group that would become Atlanta’s top-drawing blues band. 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Rolling Stone declared, “Feral blues guitar...non-stop gigging has sharpened his six-string to a razor’s edge...his eloquence dazzles...he achieves pyrotechnics that rival Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton.” In the early 2000s, Ellis released albums on Capricorn Records and on Telarc, returning to Alligator in 2005 with Live–Highwayman, which captured the fifth-gear energy of his roof-raising live show. He followed it with two more incendiary studio albums, 2007’s Moment Of Truth and 2009’s Speak No Evil. He self-released four successful albums on his own Heartfixer label before coming back home to Alligator in 2018. That year, he released the fan favorite Winning Hand, followed by 2020’s Ice Cream In Hell just before the pandemic sidelined all touring. With 2022’s Devil May Care, Ellis embarked on another relentless, coast-to-coast tour, further cementing his reputation as one of the most prolific and exciting blues rockers on the scene. 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