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Best Top Roping spot around Crawford Notch/North Conway area

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Chris Dey · · Littleton, CO · Joined Oct 2012 · Points: 0

Looking for a recommendation on some good top roping spots in the area. Thanks!

john strand · · southern colo · Joined May 2008 · Points: 1,640

Kinda vague..Crawford has little TR stuff..Elephant head is an easy lead 5.5 though. Most routes at Cathedral/Whitehorse are set up by leading a route first.

Pretty wet this year.

Nick Votto · · CO, CT, IT · Joined Jul 2008 · Points: 320

Loads of ice and snow there now, not sure when you were thinking of heading up??

DavidLG · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2011 · Points: 20

Chris,
Since your profile only list ice climbing I will give you areas to top rope ice. North End at Cathedral Ledge gives you several choices with rather large trees with anchors. At Frankenstein after the railroad trestle there is an easy ice slab to climb that you can top rope or you can hike up and left at the top to set up a top rope on several harder climbs in the Trestle Cut area. These are places that are good to do especially on the weekends when people are leading the other routes.
I hope this is what you were looking for.
David

Nick Grant · · Tamworth, NH · Joined Oct 2012 · Points: 424

Chris, I agree with David. One of the best places to top-rope (on rock) in the North Conway area is the north end of Cathedral ledge. It used to be referred to as the practice area, and there are a number of good short cracks on which you can set up a top-rope.

If it's ice you want (though mid-March can be getting a little late in the season), I have also top-roped ice in this same area. And, if you don't mind a bit of sometimes dicey scrambling, you can set up a top-rope on some of the ice bulges at Frankenstein.

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