Mt. Woodson
Climbing Sections:
- Y-Crack Group (4)
- A Nightmare on Elmstreet (1)
- Airstream (1)
- Baby Elephant (2)
- Baby Robbin (15)
- Big Grunt - Cool Jerk Area (13)
- Big Horn (2)
- Big Ugly (3)
- Blackfinger (1)
- Blasted Rock #1 (3)
- Blasted Rock #2 (3)
- California Night Area (3)
- Cave, The - Alcoa Area (12)
- Chopper Boulder (3)
- Control Tower (2)
- Corn Flake-Barney Rubble (1)
- Crucible Area (5)
- Digits Delight (2)
- Elephant's Trunk (4)
- Entrance Boulders (15)
- Fall Semester Group (9)
- Hamburger Crack (3)
- Hard As Nails Area (3)
- Heinous Potatoes, The (1)
- I Hear My Train A Comin (5)
- Lemon Chiffon (2)
- Longs Cracks (2)
- Lunch Rock Row (11)
- Marshmallow Tower (3)
- Masters of the Universe (3)
- Milkbar (1)
- Missing Link, The (5)
- Monkey Crack (2)
- Mother Superior (2)
- Painted Boulder area (15)
- Past The Summit - The Ogre (5)
- Playground, The (6)
- rexrode (3)
- Robbins Boulder (9)
- Rockwork Orange Boulder (1)
- Seminar Wall (5)
- Starving in Stereo Area (2)
- Summit, The (3)
- Sunday Afternoon Boulder (6)
- The Sail - Out of Sight Area (3)
- Tower 1 (6)
- Tower 2 (5)
- Triple Cracks (4)
- TV Screen (6)
- Uncertainty Principle Rock (12)
- Vomitorium, The (5)
- Widow's Bereft (2)
- Wind Tower (4)
About Mt. Woodson:
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Mount Woodson is the premiere climbing area in the San Diego area with enough climbing to last a lifetime or two. Scattered about the flanks of this rocky hillside are many "premium miniatures" (as bvb once put it) - boulders that what they lack in size more than make up for in quality and diversity. True there is more face climbing than cracks, but given that most places offer face climbing it's the plethora of cracks that truly makes the area shine. Cracks of every size and shape are found here on typically smooth, clean granite - from tips cracks like Lie Detector to the blood pumping offwidth of Mother Superior. Many problems are either bouldered/soloed or toproped depending upon the height and your comfort level, although any of the cracks are certainly leadable. Climbing is possible year-round, but when summer hits and the asphalt road starts melting things slow down a bit.
Professor Keith Brueckner's 1987 Mt. Woodson Guide Topo Guide PDF |
| Nearest town or city: | Poway |
| Directions: | From interstate 15 turn east on Poway Road (approx 18 miles north of downtown San Diego or 10 miles south of Escondido) drive through Poway and up a steep grade until you reach Highway 67, go north (left turn)for 3 miles to the Mount Woodson trailhead (just before the fire station on the west side). Park on the shoulder of hwy.67, NOT on Mt. Woodson Road, which is private. Residents will have cars towed if parked there! Find a gap in the fence (about 100' left of the fire station driveway)and follow a trail southward to the asphalt road which leads to Woodson's summit. Be aware that the trail that accesses the paved road is on CDF land, so stay on the trail and be low key. Watch for sppeding vehicles when hiking the road! If you hear a car, get on the shoulder ASAP. Watch for snakes, and poison oak on the north slopes. |
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| Quantity of Climbs: | Lifetime |
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