What/How Many Types of Rock Have You Climbed On?

Metamorphosed.

Mill Creek (UT) is Dakota, from everything I've read.

....on all of the above......and then some.......

The Garden of the Gods is Lyons Sandstone; the Fountain Formation on the west side of the GOG is pretty crappy for climbing, mosty iron and clay cements compared to silica cements up in Boulder.

I'll add ignimbrite (think Neue Ardent) to the list; North Island, New Zealand at Wharapapa South.

I'm a fan of limestone and sandstone myself becasue of the highly featured weathering patterns and more complex holds, though the Idaho Springs Metamorphics and Migmatites in Clear Creek are also highly featured.

Anyone know about the rock at Mississippi Palisades in W. Illinois? We've been there once and it was a pretty good time. It's some kind of lime stone (dolomitic limestone?). Seems fairly fragile.

I second the Baraboo Quartzite at the Lake.

How about the sandstone at Grand Ledge in MI. Yikes.

John Layko Torkleson wrote:Anyone know about the rock at Mississippi Palisades in W. Illinois? We've been there once and it was a pretty good time. It's some kind of lime stone (dolomitic limestone?). Seems fairly fragile. I second the Baraboo Quartzite at the Lake. How about the sandstone at Grand Ledge in MI. Yikes.

Let's bump this one too.

Andesite, metamorphosed by either volcanic intrusion or granite batholith (sport climbing near Seattle)

Granite (Index etc)

Granodiorite (Gold Bar) / Diorite (Leavenworth/Mt Erie)

Basalt (Vantage etc)

Sandstone (weird shit)

Gneiss (scrambled on but not climbed yet)

Rhyolite (Guye Peak)

No tuff or limestone yet unfortunately.

All my old threads are getting resurrected. 

I really don't know.  Sometimes I don't know what type of rock I'm climbing on... sometimes I don't know how different it has to be to be a different type of rock.  Sometimes the same "type" of rock may climb utterly differently (e.g. horizontally bed sandstone vs vertically bedded; climbing on the ends of the bedding, or the sides; same for limestone), but different types of rock may climb more similarly.

Limestone of various character - EPC; various crags in Costa Blanca, Spain; or Niagara escarpment; and various Bow Valley crags, Alberta -- all climbing quite differently. (Or Wild Iris... or...)
Sandstone in various characters -- solid, horizontally bedded like Table Mountain, South Africa; so soft you're supposed to top-rope on static ropes like Harrison's Rocks, England; where you're often climbing the patina rather than the stone, like Red Rocks, Nevada; and others.
Schist - Rumney, NH.
Granite, so much different granite... White Horse Ledge, NH; or Yosemite; or Montagne d'Argent, Quebec, or I think the Needles South Dakota or Vedauwoo Wyoming are also granite, too, but so different.
Granodiorite (I think?) - Joshua Tree.
Basalt? I think? - Devil's Tower, Wyoming.
Volcanic Tuff - some crags north of San Francisco, California.
Conglomerate - Mont Dauphin Fort, Briancon region, France
More Quartzite - Rocher Baron, Briancon region, France
Whatever the heck the Gunks are -- is it conglomerate too?
Whatever the heck Stanage Edge, England, is. Maybe conglomerate again?
Borrowdale Volcanic - Lakes District, England
Various metamorhpic rocks of various origins -- many crags.