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There is an excellent parking lot available (thanks to the BC Climbers Access Society, I believe), but people continue to park in the residential areas anyway.
Leading "the Zip" on one of our last days of the s...
Description
The Zip crag is a small but high quality cliff featuring a must-do classic crack ("The Zip"), two sport routes and a couple of more obscure lines.
Getting There
This crag is found along the Blind Channel Trail a little past (south) of the municipal water pipe. You could walk from the road (Logger's Lane) or park at the main parking area, walk along the Valley Trail, past the turnoff to the Smoke Bluff Trail and then turn right off the trail to descend a slab beside the water pipe.
The crag itself is in a little clearing off the Blind Channel Trail and is easily identified as a beautiful boilerplate wall split by a hand sized crack.
The Classics
Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for The Zip:
It's impossible to miss this climb once at the crag. Start by scrambling onto the obvious ledge. The hand and finger locks on this crack are great, but it's too small for solid foot jams in most places. Small edges provide thin but adequate feet in most places...except the crux. A very fun and well protected climb. It might be a tough on-sight for a beginning 10a leader, but that shouldn't deter anyone from trying....[more]Browse More Classics in International
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