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#30803 - 07/04/07 01:43 PM
Re: Top US Climbing destinations??
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 10/06/01
Posts: 2554
Loc: Sittin' Pretty in Fat City
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I'll second a separate section for desert, also adding the Colorado National Monument area and Virgin River Gorge to those previously mentioned. I think separating Owens River Gorge from the Sierras also makes sense.
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#30810 - 07/05/07 10:35 AM
Re: Top US Climbing destinations??
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 03/22/01
Posts: 1748
Loc: Flagstaff
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Agree with Andrew about adding Cochise Stronghold, Mt Lemmon and Sedona/Flagstaff (includes Sedona/ Paradise Forks/Jacks.....)
For California I'd also add
Needles and Idywyld Area (ok, my spelling sucks).
whilethe Pinnacles may be an area that many Bay Area residence go if you were choosing a 50 destination list, I doubt it would make the make. Would be like adding Taylors Falls for the Midwest List
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#30814 - 07/05/07 01:15 PM
Re: Top US Climbing destinations??
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old hand
Registered: 11/18/04
Posts: 754
Loc: Climbing somewhere
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Well, no, though I have never heard of Taylors Falls, I suspect adding Pinnacles would not be the same. If it is a website that is to help people find climbing partners, I suspect that the Bay Area has one of the larger populations of climbers in the US, and if they're all going to Pinnacles the way NYC residents go to the Gunks (for the day), it's a lot of people who are going to be potentially be looking for partners there. Like I said, I have not heard of Taylors Falls, but my initial suspicion is that a population of climbers of the same magnitude as the Bay Area does not exist in the midwest? At any rate, I'll guess that it's not worth all that much discussion because I suppose Evan will make up his site with whatever areas he comes up with, then as he starts getting feedback for demand he'll tweak it?
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#30818 - 07/05/07 02:29 PM
Re: Top US Climbing destinations??
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 03/22/01
Posts: 1748
Loc: Flagstaff
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Having been an active climber in the Bay Area for 6 yrs I would have to say that there was no one area that they would all go to. On a good weekend (that was less then 100F at the Pinnacles,. you would have maybe 75 climbers there, probably about the same at Castle Rock, maybe 15 at Boy Scout Rock, maybe 4-6 at Mickeys Beach, a lot making the drive to the Tahoe area, a lot going to Yosemite and a few to Calavaras Dome. Unlike the East Coast climbers there was really no focus on any one specific area.
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#30850 - 07/06/07 05:04 PM
Re: Top US Climbing destinations??
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 02/06/02
Posts: 2435
Loc: Republic of Davis
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you could always just have a SF bay area and have that encompass things like pinnales, berkley boulders, Catsle crags etc. I would separate north tahoe from south tahoe.
East side stuff like bishop, whitney, etc.
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#30852 - 07/06/07 06:07 PM
Re: Top US Climbing destinations??
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 03/22/01
Posts: 1748
Loc: Flagstaff
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Splitting Tahoe into North and South does usually make sense but you put Lovers Leap, Phantom Spires and Sugarloaf into the South section?
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#52787 - 06/18/10 04:21 AM
Re: Top US Climbing destinations??
[Re: Chas]
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old hand
Registered: 12/23/99
Posts: 815
Loc: Monroe, WA
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In the Northwest Squamish trumps both Leavenworth and Smith. Really they should rank:
1) Squamish 2) Smith Rock 3) Leavenworth 4) City of Rocks
Sqaumish is about the only thing that even remotely compares to the Gunks BTW. You don't come here for cragging; it's all about alpine.
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