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Top 10 "best" climbing destinations in the world?

Go Back to Super Topo · · Lex · Joined Dec 2010 · Points: 285

Only posting places I have been too***

1.) Ten Sleep
2.) RRG
3.) NRG
4.) The Needles.....of South Dakota
5.) Red Rocks
6.) HCR
7.) The Obed
8.) Maple
9.) Leavenworth
10.) Bishop

Alan Zhan · · Seattle, WA · Joined Jul 2013 · Points: 156

Don't really have much to add to what's already been posted, but Joshua Tree definitely deserves to be in a top 10 list though. Unique bouldering, some sport, and world class trad

Tronald Dump · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2013 · Points: 10

Alright, someone put Leavenworth in there..... So its mandatory that Index makes top 5. Its soooo..... Good, but not really please don't visit its not worth your time, and so many breaking at the parking, all the time. Like 10 a day. Lots of gang violence too.

Ryan Watts · · Bishop, CA · Joined Apr 2013 · Points: 25
Zappatista wrote:^^^^what Ryan said. The "unfortunately with Las Vegas as a backdrop" comment was mighty salty. Funny how millions of people come here from around the world to party every month, yet it's sniffed at as an eyesore by people who prefer Afghanistan (the campground) to cheap rooms with showers, epic exotic food options, and more rest day options than you can fit in an updated Frommer's guide. To make more sense, that should have read: "the worst thing about getting rescued off of Epi is the casino scene". Or, "My face got booty sweat all over it at the Spearmint Rhino, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt". When it's more than a 20 minute drive to grab Slurpees from the Velvet parking lot, the terrorists have truly won.
Just so you don't lose faith in 'Murica: I spent two weeks in red rocks in January and stayed in a casino/hotel the whole time. Worth it for the buffet alone.

On topic (in no particular order):

1) Yosemite
2) The Sierra
3) Moab
4) Bishop (bouldering)
5) Hueco Tanks
6) Eldo
7) RRG
8) Red Rocks
....

everywhere else I've been is choss
lou · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Feb 2006 · Points: 60

hmmmm

Paradise forks...
Jacks canyon....
Sedona...
Winslow wall...
Mt Lemon...
Cochise stronghold...
Isolation canyon...
Queen Creek...
Homestead...
Superstition mts...

Phil Esra · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Apr 2010 · Points: 100

what are HRC and Obed? For trad + scene, I'll add Refugio Frey in Argentina.

kenr · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Oct 2010 · Points: 16,608
Eric Fernandez wrote:5) Sierra + Owens River + Bishop
some odd statistics ...

number of MountainProject routes by region:

  • Yosemite National Park = 1211
  • Eastside Sierra = 3100

number of types of climbing rock:

  • Yosemite N.P. = 1 mostly granite
  • Eastside Sierra = 3 granite, gneiss, volcanic
Tommy Layback · · Sheridan, WY · Joined Jan 2011 · Points: 85
Ali Jaffri wrote:Yes I know its biased but I only put up big walls over 5000 feet high, and most of those happen to be in Pakistan
+1 Lol! Too bad the Buddhists or Hindus don't run that place...those uptight Muslims keep me away.
Steve Jones · · Fayetteville WV, · Joined Jun 2011 · Points: 105

Have been to most of these places, except Pakistan, which scares the bejesus out of me, and the Passaic River rail road bridge. Hot to go there now.

In my experience, Chamonix is on the top of the list. I'd also add Rocky Mt National Park and Cirque of the Towers.

Go Back to Super Topo · · Lex · Joined Dec 2010 · Points: 285
Phil Esra wrote:what are HRC and Obed? For trad + scene, I'll add Refugio Frey in Argentina.
Horseshoe Canyon Ranch and The Obed is just enormous ceilings
Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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