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Old State Quarry Climbing

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	Age of Fishes V1 5
	Age of fishes sit V1-2 5
	Breakfast of Brachiopods V0+ 4+
	Ice Dancer V1 5
	Planktonic V1-2 5
	Reefer Madness (PROJECT) V5-6 6C+
	Shallow Reef V3-4 6A+
	Wrecker V0- 4-

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Elevation:	700 ft	213 m
GPS:	41.76366, -91.57024 Google Map · Climbing Area Map
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Let me tell you about this piece of rock...

A tucked away panel of previously quarried, bullet-hard overhanging limestone, the blocks of which where used to build Old Cap. A nice mix of easy to hard lines with sharp edges and dynamic movement. A gift from old state geologist Samuel Calvin, Iowa's first systematic geologist and expert of the Pleistocene age who's photo collection of Iowa landforms is unparalleled and may offer many more leads on the unanticipated geologic wonders of Iowa. The twenty volumes of the Reports of the Iowa Geological Society, published almost wholly under his guidance and containing many of his own personal contributions are splendid testimony to his zeal, industry, and scientific acumen. Do Calvin proud and crank away on them fossilized fish bone crimps.

Public land. A short 20 minute jump hop and skip from Iowa City.

Getting There

Drive to the terminus of Rice Ridge Ln to a 1-2 car gravel/dirt pull out. Take to foot and trend left along the quarry lip to a walk down that will spit you out right at the base of the sweeping panel of gently overhanging rock.