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Elevation: 1,351 ft
GPS: 43.99766, -71.2
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Shared By: nhclimber on Apr 27, 2009 · Updates
Admins: Jay Knower, M Sprague, Lee Hansche, Jeffrey LeCours, Jonathan S, Robert Hall
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Description Suggest change

Awesome cliff with climbs of all grades. South facing and you'll probrably be alone. Screaming Yellow Zonkers is here, that alone should make it a destination.

[additions below by R Hall Oct-Nov 2017]

The individual areas are numbered so that they are listed Left to Right (as you come across them from the approach trail) on the lower level, then Left to Right again on the "Upper" level.

As Mark says (COMMENT below) with the two different levels the cliff is a bit complex, so a crude sketch of the main areas is given below. Hope this helps the "first timers" to this cliff. The blue-dashed lines are "paths/scrambles".
Woodchuck Ledge - (revised)
Woodchuck Ledge
...................................................Sub-Areas named on photo, click to enlarge

Getting There Suggest change

From Conway, drive Passaconaway road (west, towards the Albany covered bridge) till you see the cliff on the right and pass an old riverside parking/picnic area on the left. Drive around the bend till you see a pull off on right with 3 stones guarding the trail and a "No parking on the pavement" sign. Hike up the old logging trail about 10-15 min. until the trail levels off, thins out, and you start seeing old red blazes. Follow the red blazes, which will trend uphill and right, and you'll arrive at the far left end of the cliff. The first cliff you come to is overgrown; Gravity cliff is to the right.  [Italic is updated info, Oct 2017, RHall Admin.]

Coming from the Kanc, the pull-off is about 2.6 miles down Passaconaway Rd. from the Albany Covered Bridge, on your left.

Work your way right for the various walls in order: Gravity, Jurassic, Zonkers (left up a gully a little from the Caterpillar), Caterpillar, The Diamond, and the Main Wall. The Playground is reached by taking the gully past Zonkers and continuing to scramble up and left a few minutes. The upper Tier is the left side of the Main Wall, above the Caterpillar and Diamond.

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