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Easy (<=5.8) sport climbing accessible this time of year

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Rogerlodge Wilcox · · Salt Lake City, UT · Joined Jul 2013 · Points: 0

Hey

I just moved here and am interested in starting easy and working my way up. Not really sure what areas are accessible/ok to climb at this time of the year. Was looking at salt lake slips, dogwood in BCC or heading down to Rock Canyon.

Thanks ahead of time.

jason Wisniewski95 · · Salt Lake City · Joined Sep 2013 · Points: 5

I would think anything in big up to the S curves would be dry by now. And in little there is a lot of bouldering next to the road (secret garden, cabbage patch, 5 mile and gate boulders are dry. There is also a lot of easier trad climbing in little and should be dry up to schoolroom at least.

Skat B · · Down Rodeo · Joined Jan 2012 · Points: 1,075

BCC: S-Curves, Psychobabble wall, really anything in the Storm mountain area, The Aqueduct, Choss Garden. If the weather stays warm then perhaps Challenge Buttress.

LCC: Bongeater Buttress, Burner Buttress, Memorial Day Buttress, Crescent Crack crag, Coffin Buttress, The Egg, Wheeler-Newome Wall, The Thumb area, plumb line area, probably most of the Waterfront, perhaps area, Schoolroom, The dihedrals, Gate buttress, and maybe Hellgate may be clear..probably not the base though.

And since it's warmed up a lot of routes in Ferguson Canyon are dry.

Before you hit up Rock Canyon (ack!!) check out what the north side of American Fork Canyon has to offer (hard rock, escape buttress both get a ton of sun in the day!)

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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