A small little bouldering area along the blue trail in the Chatfield with steep roofs, overhangs, and corridors.
Here are the directions:
Park in the climber's lot at Chatfield Hollow on Route 80. Follow the wide, two-track, blue blazed trail for 10 minutes before taking a right onto the Blue and Red-dot trail. You can easily miss this, so pay attention! Follow this trail for ~5 minutes, eventually passing a steep cliff and a beautiful rectangular bolder(classic v4 on the front). Hop onto the road(champlain rd.) and walk uphill(west) for a few minutes. Take a left onto an obvious wide trail with boulders blocking the entrance. Walk down this trail for a few minutes until you can see large mossy rocks down in the valley to your left. Bush-wack down, hop a small stream, and find yourself at one of the coolest bouldering areas in the state.
The original line out the cave. Climb the big hanging arete from the lowest point of the cave. When you reach the lip cut right out the horizontal roof and top out....[more]Browse More Classics in CT
The trail is not blue blazed until after you reach a sign 1/2 mile from the parking area. I wasn't able to find any obvious trail with boulders off of champlin rd. However, if you walk up champlin until the road split and then immediately turn left and head into the woods following the mossy ridge line on your right, there is a halfway decent trail which goes most of the way to the boulders. After passing one line of rocky ledges you reach a muddy area/stream cross this and continue in the same direction within 5 minutes you'll reach fat man's squeeze.
Here's a satellite map of the trail entrance off Champlin Road. There are boulders, not massive climbable boulders, but boulders none-the-less blocking this muddy old road.
tried to find this place the other day, followed the directions and didnt find anything. I took the trail just before the big yellow house...is this not correct?
I did that a few times before i left home and then when i was out there i checked again...made it down into a marshy area and then ended up on a yellow blazed trail...never found a stream to hop..i feel like we just didnt go far enough, but it was getting late and i didnt see anything that gave me hope that i was heading in the right direction..ill try again this coming weekend..thanks!
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