Climbing along I-95?

I didn't get to climb on my way south, schedule got set back a day, but on my way north I ended up hitting Ross Pond in Connecticut. Fucking awesome Trad Climbing with a short approach and a easy hike around top.

Highly recommend.
MountainProject states 25 routes but I find that hard to believe. The crag is huge

It's also 10 minutes from Skydive Danielson, so I'd love to get in touch with their fun jumper community and make more trips out there in the future. It even grows an 85 foot tall ice flow some winters just an hour from Boston. Super sick.

Ryan Clanceywrote: I didn't get to climb on my way south, schedule got set back a day, but on my way north I ended up hitting Ross Pond in Connecticut. Fucking awesome Trad Climbing with a short approach and a easy hike around top.

Highly recommend.
MountainProject states 25 routes but I find that hard to believe. The crag is huge

It's also 10 minutes from Skydive Danielson, so I'd love to get in touch with their fun jumper community and make more trips out there in the future. It even grows an 85 foot tall ice flow some winters just an hour from Boston. Super sick.

Nice - how did you like Devil's Lettuce. Best route there in my opinion. Interesting that was the place you stopped out of all the options. 

Chris Topherwrote:

Nice - how did you like Devil's Lettuce. Best route there in my opinion. Interesting that was the place you stopped out of all the options. 

I'm super surprised I ended up there too. Seemed like everywhere I looked into had closings for Covid, Raptor Nesting, or some new State Laws. When I saw this place with no closings, an hour from where I work with other climbers but we've never heard of it, a good spread of Trad grades, and an occasional Ice Flow, I just had to go check it out for myself. Plus it's in a skydiving town, which is super valuable to me as a skydiver. I might just go live there for a year or two.

Anyway, we didn't explore too much. It was a 10 hour drive there from Virginia, after 4 days of intense sleep deprivation. We were both on our last wits, but got 3 climbs each somehow. We stuck to the Parking Lot Wall, going left to right, easy to hard.

All good central CT suggestions here, I've been climbing at East Peak for 23 years and I had not heard of the permit rule either......if RMF wants to get involved there put fixed anchors on the amphitheater and fall wall for god sakes.....I've literally been going there long enough to watch every tree close to the edge slowly die 

Also if you're going to Nashua, just keep going north.....

Nick Vottowrote: All good central CT suggestions here, I've been climbing at East Peak for 23 years and I had not heard of the permit rule either......if RMF wants to get involved there put fixed anchors on the amphitheater and fall wall for god sakes.....I've literally been going there long enough to watch every tree close to the edge slowly die

Also if you're going to Nashua, just keep going north.....

I agree.
When they wanted to outlaw tree use at the Gunks, they got together between the AMC, Petzl, and local organizations to put bolts EVERYWHERE, and it creates a good relationship between the big people and the little people.

North of Nashua is where I do most of my climbing. There's a few awesome spots nearby just outside Manchester and everything in the Whites. It's beautiful, but I've really only done Franconia. Echo Crag and the Eaglet for Rock, and The Flume and Kinsman Notch for ice. I really want to get out to Crawford for Mt Willard, and really start exploring NH.