Internet Access walking distance to Climbing
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Preface: My buddy and I are in med school together, both passionate about climbing. Last spring after we finished our second year we had 1.5months off to study for our board exams (Step 1), a test score which is used as a metric by hospitals to evaluate us as prospective residency applicants. Needless to say we wanted to do very well. We devised a plan to room together somewhere close to climbing where we could study all day long every day and then go climb every evening for 3-4 hours. We did this last Spring at Smith Rock, staying in a wonderful friend's guest house, literally right next to the park. |
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Gunks. |
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You mention Wild Iris - what about Sinks? It's close to town. |
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also maybe stay near Lexington and climb at the Red. Lexington itself might be too far of a drive, but if you get way out in the suburbs in that direction. |
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Stagg54 Taggart wrote:Other ideas, Boulder - you've got the FlatIrons, Eldo, and Boulder Canyon right there.They are students - Boulder would probably be out of the price range. |
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You can find good deals on summer sublets when most of the students leave town. My climbing partner and I did this for two summers during grad school. |
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Index Washington, no brainer. Only thing missing is the shower piece, but you're talking about the most primo time of year to hop in the Skykomish river, and there is wifi aplenty at the coffee shop/rafting company in town |
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Stagg54 Taggart wrote:North Conway, NH |
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Seneca has wifi... |
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A decent tablet computer with cellular data plan + a hammock means you could study AT many crags; the lame part is that it requires some capital investment. |
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Squamish. Boulder. Salt Lake City. Gunks. Rumney. Maybe? |
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JCM wrote:Anything on the east coast is humid and buggy in the summer.This. Basically, anything east of Denver is not the best choice for July. |
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Squamish. Dibs on your couch :) |
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An old friend of mine and her husband just moved to Tensleep recently and are building a cabin/camp ground in the area. They actually just bolted a crag literally right across the street from their ranch. Check out their page. This is probably something you would be really interested in. |
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Marc801 wrote: This. Basically, anything east of Denver is not the best choice for July.How about the further north you go? I know the Dak's get black flies, but what about North Conway or Acadia or something up there? Definitely further south like NC is definitely too hot/humid that time of year. |
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Thanks for all the contributions everyone! |
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Jan, that looks promising, love me some tensleep, thanks for the lead! |
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Stagg54 Taggart wrote: How about the further north you go? I know the Dak's get black flies, but what about North Conway or Acadia or something up there?I've always found the Daks and North Conway about equal to the Gunks in summer - sometimes great, but more often humid - sometimes oppressively so - and buggy. Acadia is a beautiful place and has some good climbing, but hardly destination-worth if going for just the climbing. It is cooler and more pleasant in the summer thanks to it being an island. |
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Squamish. Although it seems like you may be more interested in sport climbing than trad? Maybe that specification would help the discussion. |
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Squamish for sure. You can camp for free, score 2 dollar showers at the health club, wifi at the adventure center. Sport climb/camp in Chek, lots of awesome bouldering close to town. You can walk to smoke bluffs from the adventure center and climb. Plus you can make trips back to Seattle easy on weekends if need be, |
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In terms of types of climbing sport, trad, and bouldering all viable. Nothing multi pitch as we're trying to do quick evening sessions each day. |