7/18/2023 0 Comments Satans minions names![]() ![]() ![]() He tells the story like this: Wright invited a co-worker to join an upcoming run/climb, involving something like 5 miles of running, 3,000 feet of vertical gain, and 10 pitches of climbing up to 5.5 grade in difficulty, all before 7:45 a.m. That said, Wright’s philosophy is to always do a new route with equipment first before attempting it as a scramble.Īs for the group’s name? That came from a friend-of-a-friend who Wright has never met. Sometimes, there will be a fixed line for rappelling down, but in general, most of the Minion climbs are done sans equipment. “We don’t teach it, we don’t guide it, and we don’t even recommend it,” Wrights says of scrambling the group tackles, which ranges in difficulty of pitch up to about 5.6 (considered easy to intermediate-level rock climbing where using ropes is recommended). “It wasn’t even so much the athletic challenge of it,” Wright explains, “it was the adventure to go to spectacular places that are gorgeous.” At the same time, “you’ve got to enjoy suffering and breathing hard a little bit,” he adds. Because his sons were young at the time, he’d train while the rest of the family was still asleep-around 5:30 or 6:00 a.m.-to maximize his time with them. After he healed, he began preparing for the feat. During recovery, he read a Boulder climbing guidebook- Flatiron Classics: A Guide to Easy Climbs and Trails in Boulder’s Flatironsby Gerry Roach-and became fixated on tackling what Roach had designated the top-10 climbs in the Flatirons in less than 15 hours (a time he’d heard another local climber had achieved). The Minions began nearly 20 years ago after Wright broke his back on a local climbing route known as Death and Transfiguration. After recovering from a back injury, he had a goal to tackle the top-10 climbs in the Flatirons in less than 15 hours. Oftentimes, they’ll repeat said scrambling routine on another slab of rock before booking it back down to the trailhead by 8:00 a.m.īill Wright, 57, (right), who has a lifelong love of adventure, founded Satan’s Minions more than 20 years ago. Once they reach the top of a slab, they’ll either climb down-again, without equipment-or on steeper sections, fix a rope and rappel to the base, sometimes dropping a hundred feet in just a minute or two. And when they reach the base, without breaking stride, they’ll lean forward, place their hands on the rock, and continue their skyward journey, scrambling up the massive sheets of rock, typically without the safety or comfort of climbing equipment-just the grip of their own fingers and feet. Instead of reversing course as many runners do, the athletes forge ahead to the base of the rocks, sometimes cutting off trail and hiking up ultra-steep sections to do so. From there, they’ll run about a mile or two along the dirt trails that snake up to the base of mountains, gaining elevation as they hop over rocks, roots, and whatever obstacles lie in the path.īut when they near the Flatirons, the iconic slabs of rock that overlook town, that’s when the real adventure begins. On certain weekday mornings, around 5:30 or 6:00 a.m., a small group of athletes gathers at a trailhead in Boulder, Colorado. ![]()
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