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Greeley ponds

Submitted By: bradley white on Jul 1, 2009
Administrator: Jay Knower
Latitude: 44.0121  Longitude: -71.5033 
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Description 

West of Greeley ponds is a rock extrusion of schist smooth dark high iron content possibly of the upper sections and granite on the lower part on a 1/4 mile long connected wall split by a giant dike in the middle of nowhere and nowhere to go after climbing. I've heard rumors of someone bolting the brown slab section of it. I haven't been to the slab but from a distance I believe the slab is granite. if it has been bolted that would be good because there's good rock out there just very hard too find.
Past the ponds heading south by trail from the Kangamagus Highway is another ledge system, more like granite. Reasonable approach and all are east facing past the ponds. The most southern are southeast facing. The crags south of the ponds are best reached from Waterville Valley. Take the Greeley Ponds trail (road) until there is a fork heading up westerly. Follow this road trail until a band of cliffs comes into view. below and south of cliffs do a short scramble to the base of the cliffs. Three unnamed moderate climbs are here on the north central and northern side of this cliff. 1 pitch length for each (100ft) and rappelled from trees. You can also bike into this area from Waterville Valley.


Getting There 

Bushwhack up heading west a mile or so from Greeley ponds. Don't use the trail to Osceola. head right of it and keep going west for the crag. Best to find it when the leaves are off the trees.


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Black flies and Dearticks   5.7+ X     Trad, 2 pitches, 200 feet, Grade II   
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