Hemlock Ledges Rock Climbing

Hemlock Ledges is a ledge system about 1/4 mile wide, to the south of Beach Pond. The tallest portion, the right side, is about 45 feet tall and off vertical. Brian Phillips' retroed his old trad leads recently, and a few new ones have been added, so there are a few rare for RI bolted lead climbs.  For further info see http://www.climbri.org/beach.htm

Moving left there is a cave like formation that you see up the hill as you first approach the crag. It is named the Hand of Man Cave for the silhouetted hands painted on the wall. This part of the ledge and to the left  we have called  Deadwood to designate it as a bouldering and top rope area.

Continuing left from the cave, with occasional breaks, the ledge is mostly about 25" tall or less. The TRs are mostly off trees, so bring slingage or a short bit of rope to build anchors, though there are a couple  of SS glue-in  anchors with short chains at the top  of the tallest portion just before you get to the highball arete of Treehouse  that only require a couple biners (Just be careful scrambling to them, preferably tied off to a tree while doing so) If scrubbed up, there could be some really long bouldering traverses, especially towards the left side. If highballing be aware that the area has for the most part not been extensively cleaned  and the rock is often weakened by moisture and holds blow off. That being said, the rock can be really nice, with interesting holds.