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golden boy

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Climbing road trip
on: February 13, 2008, 04:40

Hey guys,

My friends and I are planing to do a climbing road trip across North America, this summer, and we’d like to know the best summer crags of this great continent. The only spot that’s already on our agenda is Squamish.

Any suggestions ??

grippedbones

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Re: Climbing road trip
on: February 13, 2008, 07:17

Definitely hit the Bow Valley!

9zero9

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Re: Climbing road trip
on: February 13, 2008, 19:33

Where are you starting and ending? And what kind of climbing interests you?

I usually head west (from Toronto) and like to hit:

Needles/Mt Rushmore, Devil’s Tower, The Tetons, Mill Creek (the rest of moab will be 30+ degrees though), Glacier NP, The Bugaboos, Yosemite (Tuolumne in the summer Valley in the fall).

Easy coast has some amazing stuff too. Quebec has endless cragging and some great multipitch trad. Summersville is fun w/ a boat. Gunks, Rumney, Conway!!!

golden boy

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Re: Climbing road trip
on: February 14, 2008, 11:59

We are planing on leaving at the end of may and returning late august. Our main field of climbing is mostly bouldering and lead climbing… We don’t have any trad climbing gear so Big walls are not our main concern.

sark astiq

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Re: Climbing road trip
on: February 14, 2008, 13:21

Although often overlooked, the cliffs at Mount Blackstrap offer some of the best climbing and bouldering in Saskatchewan, and are a must-visit.

otw

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Re: Climbing road trip
on: February 14, 2008, 16:46

hit up the red river gorge for sure some of the best single pitch sport in north america… also if u get anywhere near mexico go to el petero chico (i think thats how u spell it) but amazing sport and multi pitch sport a must go.
hope that helps
Cheers

9zero9

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Re: Climbing road trip
on: February 15, 2008, 10:03

Portrero and the Red might not be the best suggestions for a summer trip….

flashman

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Re: Climbing road trip
on: February 15, 2008, 10:08

If your chief concern is good climbing, don’t bother with any of the crags in the East in the summer. It’s generally too hot & humid, especially for the high quality crags in the States. If you did really want to do it coast to coast, there is some high quality cragging in Ontario that’d be ok that time of year - the Bruce Peninsula (Lion’s Head etc), and (to break up the tedium of the looong drive) some ok stuff around Lake Superior. Then you’re looking a lot of grass and wheat fields for a day or two, then you’ll see a gleaming city on the horizon, and then a wall of mountains, and finally you’re in the Bow Valley of the Rocky Mountains. Here you find a whole whack of crags & canyons. Superb limestone sport climbing abounds, but probably the jewel is Back of the Lake, at Lake Louise. Steep, amazing sport routes on bomber quartzite, and a beautiful, sublime atmosphere. Probably the best crag in Canada, and Lake Louise is a great place to hang out in the summer.
Over the Rockies, and through BC there are small crags all over the place, e.g. Begbie Bluffs at Revelstoke is near the main highway, so that’s probably worth a visit.
Skaha, at Penticton, Canada’s other best crag, is probably going to be too hot but if it’s not, don’t waste time anywhere else and head straight there (after you’ve ticked the classics in the Bow Valley that is).

marc

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Re: Climbing road trip
on: February 16, 2008, 13:59

ahh summer - difficult to find nice spots south of the border…

If you have unlimited gas money and a couple months you could:

Hit Squamish, cross the ferry to the island for Horne Lake, return via Skaha to the Rockies (see Bow valley Sport Climbs/Ghost Rock guides), head south to higher altitude areas like Maple Canyon UT, then to Lander for Wild Iris WY, don’t stop for 2000km until Rumney, move up to Ontario - Lions head, and finish with Halifax bouldering.

Or just spend a month in BC and another in AB - there is a lifetime to do in each.

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