Whipps Ledges Climbing

Some sun, some shady, some wind, always a good time. Crowds on the weekends.. Kids smokin' after (or during ) skool (weekdays.) Couples walking all the time. The seclusion you desire is proportionate to where you're climbing. Ymmv.

It is all Sharon Conglomerate Sandstone. Don't pull hard on problems / routes during or immediately following rainy spells and try to climb two days after a rain to permit the stone to dry out.

Plenty of top rope routes, only a handful of gear routes, bouldering + every lame contrived variation thought up.

Many of the top rope routes require long webbing or static lines to set up. Please be gentle with the remaining trees when setting up. If you don't have experience using long static rope or webbing, check this website and ask others how to be safer.

The sense of adventure present in the serenity in the environment, seek adventure. The climbs here are ~30 feet high, there is a old soul to this area, we seek to embody Leave No Trace ethics here.

Whipps is a traditional low chalk and top rope area. Areas under overhangs that are sheltered from rain need extra care when it comes to chalk usage. Use the minimum needed and please take a little time to clean up before you leave. Tick marks should be removed wherever they are used, before you move on to the next area. There are climbers who still want to figure the route out on their own, without tick marks to map the way for them. Please be considerate and remove tick marks. A chalk ball inside your chalk bag with no loose chalk is highly recommended others still climb with no chalk.

Regarding the glue-in anchors: Whipps is a top rope area. Years before the OCC was created, your fellow climbers chopped bolts here. One reason was the character of the soft Sharon Conglomerate Sandstone especially when wet and the other was a ethics or 'policy issue.'

Whipps is Sharon Conglomerate stone and is similar rock to the Red, which is Corbin sandstone. For beginners, Corbin stone has a significantly dense shell and is known to be "butter like" under the shell. Sharon conglomerate doesn't have this granularity but is equally fragile on the external covering.