Mountain Project: Climbing Washington

Greetings Washington climbers! There is an enormous amount of information that we can add to this site, so let's get to it!

The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Washington:

Mount Baker, North Ridge WI2-3 Steep Snow Ice, Snow, Alpine, 3000 feet, Grade III North Cascades : Mt. Baker

Liberty Ridge AI2-3 Steep Snow Ice, Snow, Alpine, 10500 feet, Grade IV Mount Rainier

Kautz Glacier WI2-3 Ice, Alpine, 9000 feet Mount Rainier

Beckey Route (SW Face) 5.6 Trad, Alpine, 3 pitches, Grade II Washington Pass : Liberty Bell

West Ridge 5.6 Mod. Snow Trad, Snow, Alpine, 1500 feet, Grade III Boston Basin : Forbidden Peak

West Ridge 5.7 Trad, Alpine, 4 pitches, 400 feet, Grade III Icicle Creek : Prusik Peak

Outer Space 5.9 Trad, 6 pitches, 500 feet, Grade III Icicle Creek : Snow Creek Wall

Dreamer 5.9 Trad, 10 pitches, 1000 feet, Grade III Darrington

Princely Ambitions 5.9 Trad, 2 pitches, Grade II Lower Town Wall : Main Wall, left side

Upper North Ridge w/Great Gendarme 5.9 Trad, 18 pitches, 1200 feet, Grade IV Leavenworth : Mount Stuart and Vicinity

Godzilla 5.9 Trad, 1 pitch Lower Town Wall : Main Wall, left side

Stanley-Burgner Route 5.9+ PG13 Trad, Alpine, 6 pitches, 500 feet, Grade III Icicle Creek : Prusik Peak

Sagittarius 5.10a/b Trad, 1 pitch, 90 feet Lower Town Wall : Main Wall, left side

Davis-Holland Route 5.10c Trad, 3 pitches, 400 feet, Grade III Upper Town Wall : Central Wall Area

Slow Children 5.10d Trad, 1 pitch, 100 feet Lower Town Wall : Main Wall, left side

Thin Fingers 5.11a Trad, 1 pitch, 120 feet Lower Town Wall : Narrow Arrow and further ri...

The West Face 5.11- Trad, Alpine, 6 pitches, Grade III Washington Pass : North Early Winter Spire

Aborigine 5.11b Sport Exit 32 / Little Si : World Wall

Japanese Gardens 5.11+ Trad, 1 pitch, 200 feet Lower Town Wall : Main Wall, left side

West Face 5.12- Trad, 9 pitches Icicle Creek : Colchuck Balanced Rock

Photos of Washington

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Yellow Skunk Cabbage. Photo by Blitzo.	Mt St Helens, before it blew it's top. From Mt Rai...	In the forest. Photo by Blitzo.
Walking into a sea of clouds-MT Rainier. Photo by ...	View of the Mazama area from Prime Rib on the Goat...	Prusik Peak West Ridge
Enchantments	Enchantments	Rainier Beer, brewed at Sicks Brewery in Spokane i...
Little Tahoma Peak from up on the DC route, Mt. Ra...	Boston Basin in mid summer. Torment Peak on the le...	Descending the Queen Sabe Glacier in the morning. ...
Mt. Baker 1976. Photo by Blitzo.	Vantage	Deception Pass WA State Park There is a route wait...
Errett Allen crossing a snow bridge on Mt. St. Hel...	Rainier National park, Sunset.	Hurricane Ridge, Olympic NP
American Border Peak and Mt. Larribee

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By Blitzo
Sep 24, 2006

Washington is an incredibly beautiful state.
The Cascades, with tall volcanoes and tumbling glaciers. The rocky coastline and rain forests. The sprawling orchards of Central Washington, all combine to make this Great state a more than worthwhile place to visit.

By Matt McMurray
From: Castle Rock, CO
Jan 24, 2007

Where's the Minihaha area?

MM

By stredna
From: PA
Apr 2, 2009

Anyone know of Conservation/Environmental jobs in the Wenatchee/Leavenworth area, please do not hesitate to PM me! Would love to live there.

By cody brua
Dec 22, 2010

hi my name is Cody Brua i am moving to Mt Vernon WA on January 1 and i don't know any one who climbs up their so if any wants or needs a new climbing partner i am free ever weekend

By Peter Franzen
Administrator
From: Phoenix, AZ
Aug 25, 2011

I have moved Beacon Rock to the Oregon section of MP. Please see its page for more details.

-Peter

By andyf
From: Tacoma, WA
Aug 25, 2011

Well that sucks. WTF? Seriously?

We'll take Smith Rock in return.

By David Stephens
From: Spokane WA.
Sep 9, 2011

They have said it for years "The best climbing in OR. is in Wa.

By Billcoe
Sep 9, 2011

You can keep the Far Side Andyf, even though it's closer to PDX than Beacon. In fact, there are 2 Farsides, you get both! Woot! If you can clean it up a tad we'll claim ownership. We'll take Ozone right next door to the FS as it's much cleaner. Opps, breaking news: the Oregon climbers have voted, and if you give us either Outer Space or Liberty Bell, we will give you everything we have except for Smith Rock. LOL!

www.mountainproject.com/v/farside/106862529

Regards!

BTW, before anyone gets their panties all twisted up, I was joking....

By Jason Scott Heacock
Feb 18, 2012

Does anyone know the name of the bouldering location in Washington that is right near a popular handgliding cliff. The climbing was right on Puget sound, possiblt north of Everett, on the western side of all passes (not in the cascades) I you know this place what is it called again and is there a Mnt Project area for it.

-thanks

By Justin Slagle
From: Palm Desert, CA
Mar 14, 2012

Jason, i think you're talking about Larrabee State Park. Good bouldering right on the beach with great views. The hang gliding is off Blanchard Mountain. The Park is 15 minutes south of Bellingham on Chuckanut Dr. I don't think it is on Mountain Project and i've never seen a guide anywhere.

By michael faith
From: Bellingham, WA
May 30, 2012

I'm working on adding in Larrabee. Feel free to offer up supplements or alternatives for my horrible directions.

By Dan Bachen
Dec 3, 2012

Just a shot in the dark here but does anyone know of any rock on the East/ South East side of the Olympic Peninsula? Will be back that direction in a month and if the rain breaks it would be nice to get a session in...

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