Where in the world can you climb without a car
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Can you climb without a car, and still have hope for a job? |
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I manage to get out often enough (a few days a week) without owning a car. Crags here are close, but not within waking distance. My climbing partners have cars, so unless I want to solo, transportation isn't a problem. I just try to chip in for gas and such. |
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Do you know how to ride a horse? Best solution for when we run out of oil. |
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Flagstaff would be a good place to be a car-less climber. Plenty of rock within easy biking distance. |
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You could live and work in Monterrey and take public transportation to the Huasteca and Potrero Chico. |
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Don't worry, we won't run out oil anytime soon... |
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Squamish is the best place I've seen for a ton of climbing within walking distance of a town. Not a big city, though. Maybe someday there will be passenger train service up the Sea to Sky corridor from Van. |
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I have biked to several climbing areas in Boise a few times. It is doable, but I would be very sad if the local climbing was my only option. |
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You climb with a car? That must be one heavy haul bag...you must be ripped! |
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Fontainebleau is difficult to do without a vehicle. While the city itself is easy to get to, the individual bouldering locales are hard to get to without some transport. |
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The Rimrocks here in Billings are literally the closest I've ever been to a crag... extremely close to town. |
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I believe Phoenix AZ, has a number of crags within the PHX/Metro area that are probably accessable via public transportation. Or just offer up a some cash for gas, and the use of your rope & rack. If this isnt enough to persuede a partner into driving a couple cold beers (or a hot meal) should do it. If none of this works, then said partner is probably not interested in climbing with you. Good luck. |
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dylanfllr wrote: Lets say we run out of petroleum tomorrow,This would be a disaster for climbing as we know it. No more nylon. In other words, no ropes, no slings, no harnesses, no helmets, no more rubber for shoes. Hoard your gear.. the end is near.... |
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Austin, Texas. Plenty of limestone climbing in the center of town. Other limestone cliffs a long bike ride or short hitchhike. Granite domes -- plenty of slab and cracks 90 minutes by hitchhike. |
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+1 for not wanting to pay for gas and insurance anymore! |
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Live and work in Golden, CO and walk to the Golden Cliffs. And the new light rail going to downtown Denver will be finished next spring. |
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I should clarify, I'm more interested in knowing if there is anywhere where you can get away with not having to ride in a car every time and still being able to climb on decent rock. I know that there will always be more available to you with a car, but I like the romantic idea of biking from work to the crag, or maybe hopping on a short train. |
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Geneva...there's a bus to Chamonix and you can get to a ton of other climbing locales in Switzerland very easily by train. |
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Rio de Janeiro and Innsbruck come to mind. |
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Can you all elaborate at all? Or know of good starts to looking up those places? I'm sitting here in Seattle looking over my computer at the mountains and not getting any work done, so I figured I could be constructive with my wasted time. |
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Yes, it's gotta be Squamish. Smoke Bluffs Municipal park is right downtown and has over 500 climbs. You could live on Hospital Hill and literally walk across the street into the park. The Chief provincial park is a 20 minute walk and has classic multi-pitch, bouldering and aid-climbing. |