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BETA PHOTO: The Columns overview.
Description
This popular wall is located in the heart of Eugene minutes from the local climbing gym, the Nike shop, and downtown pubs and restuarants. Despite its small size it has a great concentration of cracks. The basalt columns are all trad and TR lines that have many nice bolted anchors at top.
The Columns get afternoon to evening sun and can be crowded with the afterwork crowds. It is a great place to practice crack technique and leading. The routes range from 5.6 to 5.11 but the locals will tell you about the "off" holds to make the climbs more challenging.
While the rock here is generally solid occasionally a piece will break off. A few years back the large block came off the top. As a result the right half of the crag has detestable chainlink fence over it. Luckily the best climbs remain open.
Getting There
Located in Downtown Eugene at 2nd and Lincoln. The approach is 30sec from your car.
Crazy to come across this while flipping thru the Oregon sections. As others noted in the description, this is where I worked on my gear-placing skills about 10 years ago. . . I lived right down the hill. And look at me now! A big-time flail'r still working his gear-placing skills - ha! Seriously, this place was fun after work - with good people to play with! And then there was Shiprock and Rattlesnake and all the other little crags, and the Crooked and Smith and the high peaks, and. . . I miss Oregon.
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