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climbing in either horseshoe canyon or red river gorge when its raining

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Austin Renes · · Ames, Iowa · Joined Dec 2013 · Points: 0

Hello, my friends and I are looking at either going to red river gorge or horseshoe canyon next week, but looking at the forecast, it looks like it will be raining all next week, and into the days when we were planning on going there. Would it be worth it to drive 8 hours to horseshoe, or 11 hours to the red, if it is going to be raining the whole time. And is there a lot of good routes we can do while there if it is raining. we are planning on climbing for three days as well, so it would be nice if we could climb all those days as well. Thanks for all the help.

Clay Hansen · · Colorado · Joined Jan 2010 · Points: 40

Chica Bonita wall at Pendergrass-Murray stays pretty dry in hard rain (really just the first half of the crag). Short routes, but there's at least a little variety.

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

the red is one of the best rainy day crags in the country in my opinion. Hundreds of options and all amazing quality

ClimbHunter · · Reno, NV · Joined Nov 2013 · Points: 15

At the Red there are a lot of routes (and entire crags) that stay dry in the rain. The harder you climb, the more options you will have. We would usually go to Sore Heel Hollow in PMRP, find a handful of dry 10's and lots of 11's and 12's.

Luc Ried · · Batesville, AR · Joined Mar 2014 · Points: 440

To vouch for Horseshoe, the goat cave and, prophecy wall, and a couple other sectors keep dry during the rain

Austin Renes · · Ames, Iowa · Joined Dec 2013 · Points: 0

okay cool, thank you all for your replys. that helps a lot with trying to figure out where to go. I think we will go to the red then if it does keep raining it looks like. as it sounds like there are still a lot of climbing you can do there yet which will be great. one more thing too with horseshoe though, do any of you know if many of the boulders stay very dry at all as well, cause we really did want to do some bouldering as well, which is why we really wanted to go to horseshoe. any comments would be great thanks.

Luc Ried · · Batesville, AR · Joined Mar 2014 · Points: 440

I know there are some good overhanging boulders that stay dry underneath, but the topout may be brutal and wet

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