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spikeddem
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cornstateclimber
Jan 10, 2011, 3:51 PM
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illinois sucks, but far from the worst i suppose. its 3 hr drive for me to one oif our worst crags, and 6 hours to our best crags. but 14 hours to to the rockies or thne black hills, and about 14 to great climbing in Western NC. but only 8 to the red. but hell when uyou want multipitch climbing, cuz your looking at 14hours min. drive to get anywhere close to more than 2 real pitches. yet we do have rocks, and some are almost 200'. so i cant complain too much.least we got more than florida!
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coastal_climber
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camhead wrote: blueeyedclimber wrote: coastal_climber wrote: Anywhere east of the rockies, excluding Nunavut, NWT, Yukon Are you talking Canadian Rockies or US? Because, although I was a Bostonian that denounced the idea that Boston is on the best list, it is definitely not on the worst list. We have great climbing between 2-5 hours. If you climb ice, then it is a year-round climbing city. Josh Not to mention that Montreal apparently has some really good (even big) granite within a few hours. I'm not sure what he meant by saying there was no good eastern climbing.
Canadian Rockies. If the west coast was discovered first, there wouldn't be an east coast.
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dynosore
Jan 10, 2011, 5:16 PM
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coastal_climber wrote: camhead wrote: blueeyedclimber wrote: coastal_climber wrote: Anywhere east of the rockies, excluding Nunavut, NWT, Yukon Are you talking Canadian Rockies or US? Because, although I was a Bostonian that denounced the idea that Boston is on the best list, it is definitely not on the worst list. We have great climbing between 2-5 hours. If you climb ice, then it is a year-round climbing city. Josh Not to mention that Montreal apparently has some really good (even big) granite within a few hours. I'm not sure what he meant by saying there was no good eastern climbing. Canadian Rockies. If the west coast was discovered first, there wouldn't be an east coast.
There is great ice and rock climbing all around Lake Superior in Ontario. A bit far from big cities, but great nonetheless.
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Jan 10, 2011, 5:41 PM
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kachoong wrote: sbaclimber wrote: majid_sabet wrote: Amsterdam Well, the weather is definitely worse....but Amsterdam isn't nearly as far away from "real" climbing. This is correct. From Amsterdam the Ith is 4 hours, the Frankenjura is around 6 hours, the Donautal is 7 hours, the Peak District is 9 hours and even Grindelwald at the base of the Eiger is just over 8 hours.
how far is that big wall in Norway or Sweden from Amsterdam ?
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kachoong
Jan 10, 2011, 6:32 PM
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majid_sabet wrote: kachoong wrote: sbaclimber wrote: majid_sabet wrote: Amsterdam Well, the weather is definitely worse....but Amsterdam isn't nearly as far away from "real" climbing. This is correct. From Amsterdam the Ith is 4 hours, the Frankenjura is around 6 hours, the Donautal is 7 hours, the Peak District is 9 hours and even Grindelwald at the base of the Eiger is just over 8 hours. how far is that big wall in Norway or Sweden from Amsterdam ?
Do you mean the Troll wall in Norway? There are walls in the alps closer but I think it's about 1700km including a ferry crossing.
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I_do
Jan 10, 2011, 6:50 PM
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kachoong wrote: majid_sabet wrote: kachoong wrote: sbaclimber wrote: majid_sabet wrote: Amsterdam Well, the weather is definitely worse....but Amsterdam isn't nearly as far away from "real" climbing. This is correct. From Amsterdam the Ith is 4 hours, the Frankenjura is around 6 hours, the Donautal is 7 hours, the Peak District is 9 hours and even Grindelwald at the base of the Eiger is just over 8 hours. how far is that big wall in Norway or Sweden from Amsterdam ? Do you mean the Troll wall in Norway? There are walls in the alps closer but I think it's about 1700km including a ferry crossing.
I must say your times are a bit optimistic considering you'll run into trafic quite a lot, a trip to lets say basel can take as little as seven hours but can also easily take 10. But you are leaving out a couple of options as well. Many crags in belgium are about 3 hours and fontainebleau 5-6. there's nice climbing in luxemburg and germany as well. I think frankenjura in 6 hours is unpossible.
All in all there's plenty of stuff for a (long weekend) the alps are only a day which is fine if you want to go for a week or so and bleau is fine for a three day weekend.
The main reason Amsterdam is shit for climbers is that owning, parking and driving a car here is horribly expensive. When I lived in Brissie I could aford a car and petrol no sweat, and I knew lots of other students with a car, here transportation is always the major problem when I want to go climb, who has/can borrow a car is usually the limiting factor.
That said I started working so I'll probably have a car pretty soon and can go as often as I like!
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kachoong
Jan 10, 2011, 6:59 PM
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I_do wrote: kachoong wrote: majid_sabet wrote: kachoong wrote: sbaclimber wrote: majid_sabet wrote: Amsterdam Well, the weather is definitely worse....but Amsterdam isn't nearly as far away from "real" climbing. This is correct. From Amsterdam the Ith is 4 hours, the Frankenjura is around 6 hours, the Donautal is 7 hours, the Peak District is 9 hours and even Grindelwald at the base of the Eiger is just over 8 hours. how far is that big wall in Norway or Sweden from Amsterdam ? Do you mean the Troll wall in Norway? There are walls in the alps closer but I think it's about 1700km including a ferry crossing. I must say your times are a bit optimistic considering you'll run into trafic quite a lot, a trip to lets say basel can take as little as seven hours but can also easily take 10. But you are leaving out a couple of options as well. Many crags in belgium are about 3 hours and fontainebleau 5-6. there's nice climbing in luxemburg and germany as well. I think frankenjura in 6 hours is unpossible. All in all there's plenty of stuff for a (long weekend) the alps are only a day which is fine if you want to go for a week or so and bleau is fine for a three day weekend. The main reason Amsterdam is shit for climbers is that owning, parking and driving a car here is horribly expensive. When I lived in Brissie I could aford a car and petrol no sweat, and I knew lots of other students with a car, here transportation is always the major problem when I want to go climb, who has/can borrow a car is usually the limiting factor. That said I started working so I'll probably have a car pretty soon and can go as often as I like!
Yeah, I figured some of my times were off but my main point was that Amsterdam isn't remote at all from climbing. Didn't know about the Belgium crags... that's cool. When I lived in Germany I was close to the Hartz, which had a little bit a cragging too.
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qwert
Jan 10, 2011, 7:10 PM
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kachoong wrote: majid_sabet wrote: kachoong wrote: sbaclimber wrote: majid_sabet wrote: Amsterdam Well, the weather is definitely worse....but Amsterdam isn't nearly as far away from "real" climbing. This is correct. From Amsterdam the Ith is 4 hours, the Frankenjura is around 6 hours, the Donautal is 7 hours, the Peak District is 9 hours and even Grindelwald at the base of the Eiger is just over 8 hours. how far is that big wall in Norway or Sweden from Amsterdam ? Do you mean the Troll wall in Norway? There are walls in the alps closer but I think it's about 1700km including a ferry crossing.
I need at minimum 2 hours to get to the alps, and that is way too much ...
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kostik
Jan 10, 2011, 7:13 PM
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camhead wrote: How far of a drive is the nearest outdoor climbing from Moscow?
Bouldering party in an old quarry in Moscow suburbs about 1 h from downtown:
http://www.baurock.ru/lit1707/lit1707.htm
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kachoong
Jan 10, 2011, 7:14 PM
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qwert wrote: kachoong wrote: majid_sabet wrote: kachoong wrote: sbaclimber wrote: majid_sabet wrote: Amsterdam Well, the weather is definitely worse....but Amsterdam isn't nearly as far away from "real" climbing. This is correct. From Amsterdam the Ith is 4 hours, the Frankenjura is around 6 hours, the Donautal is 7 hours, the Peak District is 9 hours and even Grindelwald at the base of the Eiger is just over 8 hours. how far is that big wall in Norway or Sweden from Amsterdam ? Do you mean the Troll wall in Norway? There are walls in the alps closer but I think it's about 1700km including a ferry crossing. While those distances might sound not to bad from an american perspective, for europe this is as bad as it gets (if you ignore the Ith, but that is probably going to be restricted for the dutch anyways ;) ) if you take into account that you can get from the north to the south shore of the continent in way under 20 hours. I need at minimum 2 hours to get to the alps, and that is way too much ... qwert
two hours? No need to squeeze lemon on it! Heh!
It's all relative though, eh? You make do with what you have. I gotta drive three hours to climb anything bigger than a VW
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Jan 10, 2011, 7:16 PM
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Worst "city"?http://en.wikipedia.org/...Joe_Arpaio#Tent_City
All jest aside... Moving from SoCal, where I had lots of stellar climbing options, so Wilmington, NC is a big change, as I have to drive more than 4 hours for any climbing. There is GREAT climbing here in NC, but it's pretty far. 
Which is why I built that killer bouldering room.
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sbaclimber
Jan 10, 2011, 8:35 PM
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kachoong wrote: qwert wrote: kachoong wrote: majid_sabet wrote: kachoong wrote: sbaclimber wrote: majid_sabet wrote: Amsterdam Well, the weather is definitely worse....but Amsterdam isn't nearly as far away from "real" climbing. This is correct. From Amsterdam the Ith is 4 hours, the Frankenjura is around 6 hours, the Donautal is 7 hours, the Peak District is 9 hours and even Grindelwald at the base of the Eiger is just over 8 hours. how far is that big wall in Norway or Sweden from Amsterdam ? Do you mean the Troll wall in Norway? There are walls in the alps closer but I think it's about 1700km including a ferry crossing. While those distances might sound not to bad from an american perspective, for europe this is as bad as it gets (if you ignore the Ith, but that is probably going to be restricted for the dutch anyways ;) ) if you take into account that you can get from the north to the south shore of the continent in way under 20 hours. I need at minimum 2 hours to get to the alps, and that is way too much ... qwert two hours? No need to squeeze lemon on it! Heh! It's all relative though, eh?
...not to mention quite a few other crags even closer.
It must be the american in me, but I am more than happy to drive 1.5-2 hrs each way for a day in the Frankenjura or Elbsandsteingebirge...or even the Harz or Erzgebirge...
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the_JC
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In reply to: Yeah, it definitely is. I still find it funny how many people think a 2 hour drive is "long". I am absolutely stoked to be within 1.5-2 hrs from 2 huge, and a couple smaller, but still very good, climbing areas. (one of them being the Harz, incidentally) ...not to mention quite a few other crags even closer. It must be the american in me, but I am more than happy to drive 1.5-2 hrs each way for a day in the Frankenjura or Elbsandsteingebirge...or even the Harz or Erzgebirge...
Definitely second that. Before i came to the US, my thought was that more than one hour to drive each way was too much for a daytrip and more than 4 hours were too much for a weekend. This country sure makes us europeans reconsider our sense for distances. On the other hand there was worse trafic jam when traveling towards Frankenjura or the alps on Friday afternoons and back on Sunday evenings than what i experienced on the Washington Beltway at the same times. And the gas is a lot more expensive in Europe, too.
(Personal climbing trip record in the US: 700miles each way for 1 and 1/2 days of HP 40 bouldering. Totally worth it!)
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Bats
Jan 11, 2011, 2:20 AM
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Houston, TX, to:
3 hrs Austin's Greenbelt
3 hrs McKinney Falls
3 1/2 hrs Reimers' Ranch
3 1/2 hrs Rogers Park
4 1/2 hrs Enchanted Rock
8 hrs Wichitas/Quartz Mt.
10 1/2 hrs HCR & Sam's Throne
11 3/4 hrs HP 40
12 hrs Hueco Tanks
The funny thing is that its faster to go Arkansas or Alabama than Hueco Tanks.
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braaaaaaaadley
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I think I have a strong contender... Dumas, Tx. I used to think Norfolk, VA was bad. Norfolk was paradise compared to this place. Google it if you don't believe me! Can't wait to get back to civilization this summer.
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Bats
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I have been in Dumas, TX. I think it may be a winner.
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photoguy190
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Second vote for Lincoln Nebraska, no real gyms, if you aren't a college student. To add injury to insult there is really nothing to do in the outdoors, unless you want to farm. So other city maybe far from climbing but they still have other outdoor activities to go with
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Jan 11, 2011, 5:13 AM
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bad enough the rock is a quarry, but you got to put up with Russian climbing outfits too.
And for the other gender:
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uni_jim
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Dog River SK.
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guangzhou
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Rangoon, Burma.
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kachoong
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acorneau wrote: braaaaaaaadley wrote: I think I have a strong contender... Dumas, Tx. I, too, have been through Dumas several times on my way out to NE New Mexico. It's a fairly desolate place, although you might be able to climb the grain silos...
It may be a shithole to live but it's still only about 4.5 hours from the Wichita's and 5.5 hours from Taos. Certainly prevents having the opportunity to be able to climb after work though, which I think is essential for any climber. Even a day trip is pushing it when you're more than 3 hours from rock.
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acorneau wrote: braaaaaaaadley wrote: I think I have a strong contender... Dumas, Tx. I, too, have been through Dumas several times on my way out to NE New Mexico. It's a fairly desolate place, although you might be able to climb the grain silos...
Hmm I forgot about the far northern panhandle. I've driven through it several times, and although the Caprock Canyons/Palo Dura look really cool, there's not a lot of rock in that area.
However, although I'm sure Dumas sucks for all the typical rural TX reasons, in addition to not having a gym, you're still reasonably close to decent climbing. Looks like the Wichitas and Quartz Mtn. are both around 4-4.5 hours, which is totally reasonable for a weekend trip. Hell, Dumas is closer to Colorado than about any other Texas city; Canon City/Shelf Road in CO are less than 6 hours, again very doable for a weekend.
Still, if I had to take TX, I'd take Dallas or Austin way over Dumas. Not sure about Houston.
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