Posted by yourhub on 5/16/2007
Ask anyone who's driving on I-25 where they would guess someone could find quality Colorado rock climbing, and chances are, they'll point west, toward the mountains.
Tom Hanson, 48, a native Minnesotan who's lived in Colorado since 1982, will tell you otherwise. He's been climbing the walls of Castlewood Canyon State Park, east of Castle Rock, since 1983.
"I don't know why I like this place so much," says Hanson, who finally moved to Castlewood Ranch with his wife, Nancy, in 2005.
In 24 years, he's climbed thousands of routes in the park, from 80-foot tall lines up the walls to shorter, more gymnastic "problems" on the boulders parked all over the canyon floor.
