how's the climbing around Austin, Texas?

My husband and I are looking to take a job in Temple, Tx and was wondering about the climbing around Austin area. Sport, and trad, single to mult-pitch, quality of rock, quanitiy of rock..... thanks for your response.

It's decent with a pretty big community of really nice people. You've got the greenbelt in Autsin which is all single pitch limestone sport and a little bouldering (little little trad). Reimer's ranch has got alot of hard limestone sport. Enchanted Rock is a bit of a drive, but lots of sport and trad on pink granite. Pace Bend for some water soloing...

Not bad at all considering it is Texas...no offense to anyone!!

erockonline.com/guidebooks.htm

spadout.com/wiki/index.php/…

mountainproject.com/v/texas…

And of course their is the Mighty Hank Caylor!! :o)

There have been numerous articles about Austin area climbing in the mags this last year. Lot's of river cave bouldering and DWS, plenty of other great looking stuff. There's probably not a better place for climbers to actually LIVE in TX.

Also, if you're in Temple, you're near Roger's Park, which is probably the best bouldering in Central Texas. As mentioned above, Enchanted Rock and Reimers are suitable day trips for you. Within shot for weekends would be the Wichitas in OK, NW Arkansas, and even Potrero Chico in Mexico, once you get comfortable with the driving.

That said, I think that Texas climbing is not as good as the disproportional coverage in magazines makes it out to be (Jeff Jackson is a Texas native, so that might have something to do with all the press it gets). It has lots of nice local areas, but no world class climbing (Hueco is not in Texas, in case you're wondering), and you'll definitely be making the drive 12 hours east or 12 hours west for your fix of really good rock.

I'll never forget the look on the face of a couple Colorado climbers I met at Reimers, who had been convinced by a couple overly promotional Austinites to drive from Hueco Tanks to Reimers for the "awesome limestone." Disappointed would be putting it mildly.

Theresa, send me an e-mail and I can introduce you to some climbers in Austin that you and your husband might like to climb with, especially when going to Potrero Chico.

Here is a snarky insider's blog for the Austin scene:

[sadly, it is now gone.]

hueco tanks is in texas. I thoughtd id clear that up.

camhead wrote: I'll never forget the look on the face of a couple Colorado climbers I met at Reimers, who had been convinced by a couple overly promotional Austinites to drive from Hueco Tanks to Reimers for the "awesome limestone." Disappointed would be putting it mildly.

Recently a couple of my friends headed to the Austin area to visit some family, they asked me if I knew of any good climbing in the area, so I told them that I had heard Reimers was good and that they might want to check it out. After they got back I asked them how it was, and I think that their experiance was very similar to those Colorado climbers that you met.

Rock and Ice

If you guys only knew...you'd stay in Colorado, its better there!