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Darnell Hollow Bouldering

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Areas in Darnell Hollow

1st pull off 0 / 0 / 0 / 55 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 55

5th Pull Off (School Bus Area) 0 / 0 / 0 / 94 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 94

Area 3 0 / 0 / 0 / 5 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 5

Blind Faith Boulder 0 / 0 / 0 / 5 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 5

Clear Cut, The 0 / 0 / 1 / 7 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 7

Darkside East 0 / 0 / 0 / 38 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 38

Darkside West 0 / 0 / 0 / 15 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 15

Trisket Boulder 0 / 0 / 0 / 3 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 3

Upper Tier 0 / 0 / 0 / 29 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 29

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Elevation:	1,480 ft	451 m
GPS:	39.69212, -79.80666 Google Map · Climbing Area Map
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Description

Great and wonderful stone with not too high in height to climb. Typically every thing can be climbed with pads as protection. There are a few boulders that are bolted if you wanted to climb on top rope on the higher climbs. Please park off the road as much as you can and practice LNT Principles. Great mix of super hard to great place to learn how to climb. I find that the landings are very flat and friendly but there are some problems that the exception to this.

This area has been around for a long time and Developed by locals that attended WVU like Douglas Downs, Ray Webber and many others in the 90s. So you think you have an FA make sure you ask around and confirm before you claim an FA because it may already have been climbed.

Getting There

From Morgantown WV get on to I68 head toward Coopers Rock State Forest. Take exit 10 at cheat lake. Take exit 1. Head towards fair chance road and head north towards the PA boarder. Take a right at the bend by the church. Stay left of Darnell rd and boulders are everywhere. If this not sufficient to get you there plug in Darnell Rd in your GPS and it will get you there.

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Classic Climbing Routes at Darnell Hollow

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

V3 6A 14 ● Steropes Boulder 5th Pull Off (S… > Giant's Slab Boulder
V4 6B 7 ● Yahtzee Boulder 1st pull off > Dice Boulders
V5 6C 13 ● Brontes Boulder 5th Pull Off (S… > Giant's Slab Boulder
V5 6C 11 ● Sunset Arete Boulder 5th Pull Off (S… > Sunset Boulder
V6 7A 13 ● Achilles Boulder 5th Pull Off (S… > Demi-God Boulder
V7 7A+ 16 ● Hercules Boulder 5th Pull Off (S… > Demi-God Boulder
V7 7A+ 5 ● A Light Less Broken Boulder 5th Pull Off (S… > Arete Boulder
V7 7A+ 9 ● False Blood Boulder 5th Pull Off (S… > False Blood
V7 7A+ 4 ● Blood in the Water Boulder 5th Pull Off (S… > Shark Tooth
V7 7A+ 9 ● James Gnomerson Boulder 5th Pull Off (S… > Gnome Boulder
V8- 7B 7 ● Herculean Traverse Boulder 5th Pull Off (S… > Demi-God Boulder
V8 7B 13 ● Blind Faith Boulder Blind Faith Boulder
V8 7B 7 ● Mr. Gnomerson Boulder 5th Pull Off (S… > Gnome Boulder
V9 7C 12 ● The Yoke Boulder Darkside East > Ganja Bloc Aka Moon B…
V10 7C+ 4 ● Cutting it Close Boulder 5th Pull Off (S… > Gnome Boulder