See the main wall through the trees. The wall con...
Description
On the north west bay of Crane Lake is a wall that is 50'-60' tall and could host about 30 routes. There would be some TR faces and trad leads.
The rock is fairly clean and well featured for climbing. As far as I am aware there is no currently established routes on this wall. It is one of the most accessible areas to get to by boat or canoe.
Just to the south east there is a National park camping area. It is on the west side of the channel that leads to Sandpoint lake.
Getting There
Boat or canoe from the town of Crane lake to the far north west bay of Crane Lake. The crag is on the east side facing west. It is about 100' in the woods and will be obvious as you get close.
I went here about three weeks ago in the evening. There is no trail and the bugs were really bad. Probably a better endeavor in the winter. Anyway the wall is super impressive, with tons of opportunity for routes. There is one section that is at least 75 feet tall with an overhung imposing headwall at the top. I hiked around to the top and setup a top-rope on a part of the wall a bit west of this headwall feature. There was a secondary ledge that I rapped down to in order to setup the top rope from. I ended up climbing a shallow right facing corner. It involved lots of lie backing and some finger locks even! Probably about 50 feet long. It went at about 5.10 due to its extremely dirty nature (had to avoid some loose hand holds as well). It was still a lot of fun, but an adventure and one that I definitely wouldn't do again in July. I bought my belayer a case of beer for dealing with the bugs. Does the density of the brush go down signifigantly in the colder months? I'm sure the density of the bugs does :D. Anyway, would be fun to go back to some time, but I would definitely bring a wire brush (or power washer).
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