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Black Mountain Range Alpine Climbing

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Routes in Black Mountain Range Alpine

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	Browns Creek Falls T WI4
	Crescent T WI3- Mod. Snow
	Left Brain Right Brain T WI3- Mod. Snow R
	Left Wishbone T WI3-
	Left Wishbone (Rock Scramble) T Easy 5th 1+ 3 I 5 M 1c
	Middle Fork Rock Creek (Royal Air Variation) T WI4
	Potato Hill Direct WI2- M1-2 Easy Snow R
	Right Wishbone T 4th 1 2 I 2 M 1b WI3-
	Royal Air T V-easy 3 WI4-5 Mod. Snow R
	Taj (Left and Right Variations), The T WI3- Steep Snow R
	Thee Three Amigos T WI3-
	Upper Browns Creek Gully WI2-3 Easy Snow
	Y Gully T WI3 Mod. Snow

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Description

North Carolina's Black Mountain Range probably holds the best alpine snow and ice routes in the Southeast. These routes are huge with 1 to 4 hour approaches, 1 to 4 hour descents, humbling bushwhacking, and hundreds to a thousand plus plus feet of everything from steep snow to technical ice.
The remote and committing nature of these routes require an alpine start, route finding skills, and backup navigation tools if your phone quits working.

An accident up there would require a helicopter short haul and more than one party had to call the Yancey County Sheriff's Department for assistance...

Please give these routes and the range the respect they deserve.

Getting There

Trailheads and bushwhacking starting points are located off of roads accessed via highway 80 South of Micaville. See routes for specific approaches.

Please refer to the South Toe River, Mount Mitchell, and Big Ivy Trail Map (Pisgah National Forest).

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Classic Climbing Routes at Black Mountain Range Alpine

Mountain Project's determination of the classic, most popular, highest rated climbing routes in this area.

WI3- Mod. Snow 20 ● Crescent Trad, Ice, Snow, Alpine 5 pitches
WI4 6 ● Browns Creek Falls Trad, Ice, Alpine 3 pitches
WI3- 16 ● Left Wishbone Trad, Ice, Alpine 4 pitches
WI3 Mod. Snow 7 ● Y Gully Trad, Ice, Snow, Alpine 10 pitches
4th 1 2 I 2 M 1b WI3- 6 ● Right Wishbone Trad, Ice, Alpine 3 pitches
Easy 5th 1+ 3 I 5 M 1c 19 ● Left Wishbone (Rock Scramble) Trad, Alpine