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briandakota
Jun 10, 2009, 1:50 PM
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Hi All,
We are planning a trip to the san juans in July. We'll be spending a few days island hoping and wanted to do some climbing. I looked on the Internet for climbing areas but didn't really come up with anything. Does anyone know of any good climbing areas in the san juans?
Thanks!
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ryanb
Jun 10, 2009, 3:04 PM
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People don't go to the san juans to rock climb. A climber I know who was working there said there are some small cliffs on one of the islands but they are in a wild life reservations and the locals would pretty much shoot you if you were caught there (lot of folks out there get militant about their nature).
There is climbing at mnt erie near anacortis and a couple of places in/near bellingham (larbee, sehom, oyster dome) so you could probably hit up some climbing on your way in or out of the islands but if you want a proper WA climbing trip head for the cascades.
(This post was edited by ryanb on Jun 10, 2009, 3:04 PM)
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boadman
Jun 10, 2009, 3:39 PM
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ryanb wrote: People don't go to the san juans to rock climb. A climber I know who was working there said there are some small cliffs on one of the islands but they are in a wild life reservations and the locals would pretty much shoot you if you were caught there (lot of folks out there get militant about their nature). There is climbing at mnt erie near anacortis and a couple of places in/near bellingham (larbee, sehom, oyster dome) so you could probably hit up some climbing on your way in or out of the islands but if you want a proper WA climbing trip head for the cascades.
Actually, on SJ there is a place you can set up a top rope out at lime kiln park in one of the quarries. It's pretty sketchy though.
Susha has some sandstone that you can boulder on, but you need a boat.
Cypress has eagle cliff that I've done a couple of adventure trad pitches on, but it's a little sketchy. There's a lot of bouldering potential below it though. You'd have to come prepared to do some serious excavation. And, you'd need a boat.
As far as I know, the rest of the islands just have chossy sendimentary crap.
There's some nice looking cliffs on Waldron, but they're utter choss when you rap down them and you really might get shot. And you need a boat.
Vancouver and/or Galianos are the islands to check out with climbing.
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