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Description 

Excellent climbing on three main sections of cliff. The cliffs are made of of a tilted bed of limestone that were exposed when the area was quarried years ago. Both face and crack climbs are prevalent. Several of the face routes were put up 20+ years ago, so the bolts may be suspect. Also care must be taken when placing gear in limestone.


Getting There 

See the GPS location. In general, park on the street discretely and discretely walk into the quarry off of Armor Run Road.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Bellefonte Quarry:
El Crackitan   5.9+     Trad, 1 pitch, 110 feet   
Coleman's Crack   5.10b     Trad, 1 pitch, 120 feet   
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El Crackitan

El Crackitan 5.9+  PA : Bellefonte Quarry
This is a finger to wide hand crack that starts at the far end of the upper wall. In an old guide book the author said "your sole reason for existance as a climber is to do this climb". I agree.The crack starts with finger locks for the first 50' or so then after a fingery traverse with slopey feet the crack widens to hands with a fist or two thrown in for good measure till you reach the top. Classic!...[more]   Browse More Classics in PA


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By Rick Mix
Nov 25, 2012

El crackitan 5.9+ bwaaaahhhaaaaaaaaa!

The "20 y/o" bolts we put in (20+years ago) are mostly very long so as to penetrate multiple layers in the bedding plane of the rock. Yeah, I typed penetrate... Should still be okay...Prior to that the standard Bellefonte bolt was the total POS self-drive lag shield. Not a bad bolt for the dude placing it,otherwise crap. (Though most of them did hold some long falls.) The change occurred of course when we bagged drilling by hand from stances and went French, er a Sport,nope let's see..ok- top-down on rappel.
Saddens me to see the quarry closed. Lots of memories there.

By Patrick Mulligan
Dec 14, 2012

Then again. I don't ever remember climbing at the Quarry when it was "open".