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| Elevation: | 600 ft | 183 m |
| GPS: |
38.92065, -121.00793 Google Map · Climbing Area Map |
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| Shared By: | jcory on Sep 30, 2011 | |
| Admins: | Aron Quiter, Lurk Er, Ky Bishop, Colby Wangler, Mike Morley, Adam Stackhouse, Salamanizer Ski, Justin Johnsen, Vicki Schwantes |
Access Issue: The State Rec Area closes at dusk - most parking areas are self-paid
Details
Most of Auburn SRA is open from 7 am to sunset. Leave early enough to be off the trails before dusk. Most parking requires self registration fees in cash envelopes (or annual state park passes), and is enthusiastically enforced. Check the Auburn State Recreation Area website at parks.ca.gov/?page_id=502 for current information. Note that the park's policy is that technical roped climbing is only permitted in the Cave Valley/Quarry area - outside the fenced private quarry at the back. Unroped climbing - aka bouldering or DWS - is allowed everywhere with a safe landing.
Description
Good bouldering across from the river from the Quarry, around Murderer's Bar rapids and the Mammoth Bar OHV area.
Relatively new area, potential for projects, (a couple hard ones exist already!) and good established boulders. More in the moderate range i.e.: v2/3 to v6/7.
Ethics: as a rule of thumb, boulder only here. A few exceptions have been made where very tall routes were bolted as sport climbs.
Relatively new area, potential for projects, (a couple hard ones exist already!) and good established boulders. More in the moderate range i.e.: v2/3 to v6/7.
Ethics: as a rule of thumb, boulder only here. A few exceptions have been made where very tall routes were bolted as sport climbs.
Getting There
From Auburn, take Highway 49 south to the Confluence, keeping straight on Old Foresthill Road (don't turn right to cross the bridge).
Past the bridge, drive about a mile and a half to the Mammoth Bar OHV Area signed turn on the right. Drive downhill to one of the established dirt parking areas before reaching the entrance station at the bottom of the hill.
Park up top (unless you have $10 for parking!) and walk down almost to the bottom; there is a pullout on the right with a sign that warns about the river rising rapidly. Trail goes past this sign, through trees and down to the river. As it flattens out at the bottom towards the river, the Shogun boulder will be on your left, hard to miss. Once at the water, head upstream to more boulders.
For GPS coordinates of the typical parking area, click the map link from this page.
Past the bridge, drive about a mile and a half to the Mammoth Bar OHV Area signed turn on the right. Drive downhill to one of the established dirt parking areas before reaching the entrance station at the bottom of the hill.
Park up top (unless you have $10 for parking!) and walk down almost to the bottom; there is a pullout on the right with a sign that warns about the river rising rapidly. Trail goes past this sign, through trees and down to the river. As it flattens out at the bottom towards the river, the Shogun boulder will be on your left, hard to miss. Once at the water, head upstream to more boulders.
For GPS coordinates of the typical parking area, click the map link from this page.
Classic Climbing Routes at The Bar
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