Big Walls on the East Coast

Dylan Daywrote:

I believe Whitehorse Nh is the biggest at 1100 ft of climbing followed be Cannon and the cathedral, the gunks might have something but after that it would be Seneca around 500. There is quite a few 400 and less ft crags in the northeast but those are your bigger ones

Seneca doesn’t have 500’ of vertical climbing anywhere. Lovely place for some multipitch but sadly not that tall. 

Possibly Wallface in the ADK's ? Its remote

While Cannon definitely has some aid routes and would probably be the best in the NE for wall training (without including Newfoundland and other Canadian goodies that I haven’t checked out) it’s primarily a free climbing venue. Whitehorse is hard to call a wall. Maybe someone could correct me and show me some wall style routes but it’s a slab. Awesome rock but not what you’ll encounter on a wall. Wall face would most definitely be an adventure and looks fun but there’s literally diagonal tree ledges that cut across the face all the way to the top and more ledges are interspersed on the way up. Like I said I would love to check this place out but I wouldn’t be bringing an aid kit out there. There’s a couple others mentioned that I don’t know much about but they still don’t seem to lend themselves to wall style climbing. If you want a real wall simulator come down to the south east. Despite what mountain project says the dark side of Looking Glass has at least two dozen grade III/IV routes. None of these routes are C1 though but it’s an easy approach and a magical place to hang a ledge and soak in the Pisgah. It’s also an actual aid climbing wall with the only two free climbs top to bottom of the main section clocking in at 5.13. Everything else is solid in your ladders climbing on a steep uninterrupted wall of granite. I am right there with Birmingham Ben! Myself and a handful of well traveled aid aficionados would have to agree that while not the biggest there is no better aid route east of the Mississippi than Reflections on the NF of Table Rock. Every other route on that aspect of TR is bad to the bone and a big step up in difficulty.

Cathedral 

There is some splitter crack routes, and interesting face pitches on the left side of Whitehorse that I haven’t gotten on yet. I’m pretty new to climbing but I think anything close to 1000ft of rock you can call a wall. Just might not be big wall style bc it’s on the easier side of things lol. I’ve heard great things about Table rock and looking glass. Haven’t been yet and can’t comment on things I haven’t done. I think to answer the original question is if you want to practice big walls I think you would just have to consider put a portaledge on something really big and practice moving around and climbing, getting used to what it’s like to be up there for a few days. On the small stuff we have on the East coast

Barry Mwrote:

Seneca doesn’t have 500’ of vertical climbing anywhere. Lovely place for some multipitch but sadly not that tall. 

Yea it’s definitely closer to 300 but feels higher when your on it because the valley is so low. Pretty cool warmup to exposure

"Bigger than El Cap"

Why hasn’t anyone mentioned the prow or Mordor wall?

Zak Munrowrote: Harder than C1 and may or may not have to sleep on the wall, but there classics non the less. mountainproject.com/v/mines… mountainproject.com/v/the-m…

THE PROW on Cathedral Ledge, NH ! You can free the first pitch at 5.7 or aid it at C1. Portaledge needed if staying ! Nice in winter too !