Patterson Right Climbing

The section of Patterson Bluffs to the right of the waterfall. This area is accessible all year long from the Black Rock Road, so it can be climbed in the cool months of fall, winter and spring. Access often involves nasty bushwacking. Even when trails get cut, bushes grow back within a few years.

Areas near the waterfall are accessed by hiking the creek bed to the base of the waterfall or near there before bushwacking left or right. The base of the waterfall is a nice destination in its own right.

The Balch Camp Flake area has had a few alternate approach routes. An old access road went up the back side past the square reflector. Look for rappel routes to the base. Martzen put one in to the top of the highest buttress, to the right of the Flake. Leversee put in a route directly behind the flake. Scott Jett and Adam Shepard cut a traversing trail from the road to the Flake in 2013. It comes in from the far right and follows some power poles for a ways.