The Right Cliff  Photos:  Recent | Best | Popular Elevation:  2,900' Lat, Long:  44.043, -71.3591 Map Page Views:  4,094. Good page?    Administrators:  Jay Knower, M Sprague, lee hansche, Tom Erickson Submitted By:  M Sprague on Oct 13, 2010 Make this area a Favorite What's New  Printer View Add Area  Add Photo  Add Comment  Add Event  Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu 63° | 48° 75° | 55° 73° | 43° 64° | 45° 72° | 46°

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The right side of Owls is home to the shear 5.10 wall, named thus because it looks to offer long pitches of face climbing at that grade. In fact routes here all turned out to be much harder than they looked, from 5.11 to hard 13. If you like difficult, technical and sustained steep face climbing, this is the wall for you. There are some open projects here that are the best of their kind in NE. Around left from the 5.10 wall's Hooters Arete 12a/b you will Find Dave Quinn's WiZe Owl 12b that follows flakes up the big steep corner, and further left, out above the upper apron, the stemfest Dragonfly Yoga 12+.

Below the 5.10 Wall, separated by a large wooded ledge, is an apron of slab, that offers good slabbing up to two pitches tall, from very easy to 5.10. Especially nice is the angling 5.9, Zigzag. Most of the slab routes are well protected, with a few perhaps a little overly (but they are good for real beginners).

To the left of the approach gully (the Contact Area) are a handful of mostly shorter routes, a couple of which will probably have to serve as your warm-up routes for the area (until more is developed). Most are worthy here, if not as classic as the routes above.

The right hand side of the 5.10 wall, towards the huge wet gully is still undeveloped, along with the extensive rock further right, including the prominent big sharp arete that is partially bolted, but has rebuffed efforts so far.

Getting There 

Follow the directions in the main Owl's Cliff heading to get to the Oracle Boulders. From the uphill side of these boulders, traverse the hill side east for a few hundred feet then head up. This section is a little windblown as of 10/2010, but in a few hundred more feet @ N44.04235, W071.35912 you should be able to pick out a faint climbers trail heading up to the cliff.. The base of the cliff is only about 10 minutes up hill. You will meet it at a tongue of slab @ N44.04298, W071.35908, the starting point of the routes "Well Balanced Owl" and "Zig-Zag". On your right, below the slab will be a large boulder with a flat top, a nice place for setting your stuff if climbing here.

Heading up and left gets you to a steep "Death Gully" that runs up right towards the smooth face of the 5.10 Wall, situated above a tree covered ledge, with slabs below. The shorter bit of cliff to your left and the left wall of the gully is know as the Contact area, named after the route "Contact Owl".

Heading right, from when you first approached the cliff, above the large boulder, will get you to Vista CruzerSlab and with some scrambling to currently undeveloped but promising rock.

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Snake Skin Slab 5.6 X  NH : Owl's Cliff (off Kancamagu... : ... : The Vista Cruzer Slab

40 feet up from the toe of the slab start to right of the overlap. Climb the clean streak to a sling anchor on tree. Rappel to mid anchors on Vista Cruiser and rap again. ...[more]   Browse More Classics in NH

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