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CT New Zone?

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Morgan Patterson · · NH · Joined Oct 2009 · Points: 8,945

Mornin' Folks... I was doing some browsing this am on my maps and came across a zone in CT that appears to have quite a few cliffs in addition to at least 1 boulder field that appears loaded.

Boulder Field: 41.923797°, -73.004841°

Below is the topo:

Topo - Cliffs in Green

Appears as though all the rock is the Hoosic Schist so it could be good or crap.

Cliff on County Line: 41.976883°, -73.026433°

Topo:

Topo Cliffs in Green and Orange

Another one: 41.985676°, -73.055712°

If someone is interested in some more maps or leads there really looks like there could be quite a few cliffs in the area. YMMV

Brian · · North Kingstown, RI · Joined Sep 2001 · Points: 804

Morgan, If you look at those areas in Bing Maps Bird's Eye view it doesn't appear that there are any cliffs there. Just steep hills. BTW I recommend Bing Maps Bird's Eye over Google Earth or whatever it is that you are using.

Morgan Patterson · · NH · Joined Oct 2009 · Points: 8,945
Brian wrote:Morgan, If you look at those areas in Bing Maps Bird's Eye view it doesn't appear that there are any cliffs there. Just steep hills. BTW I recommend Bing Maps Bird's Eye over Google Earth or whatever it is that you are using.
Lol... I'm using a custom built GIS map. That grey layer is a LiDAR scan of the state. All the green showing is in fact rock. Whether it's vertical, slab or overhanging is what remains to be seen. Army Corp of Engineers helped me locate the LiDAR layer. There's noting else like it out there for topo mapping. And btw birds Eye was soooo 1990's!!! I actually still use it but as a verification tool to this map. That said, the E/W views in this area on bing were taken during the foliage so they're basically useless imo.
Morgan Patterson · · NH · Joined Oct 2009 · Points: 8,945

Pic of cliffs and boulder field below them:

Boulders

Might suck... might be a new zone. But there's rock there... And the other area shows a cliff on bing lookin north. Not much but if you live there it might be a good lead. Lots of rock in the area... Also... what got me looking here is that there's probably a lot of ICE up here.

M Mobley · · Bar Harbor, ME · Joined Mar 2006 · Points: 911

I've come home and looked at many cliffs on Bing and Google after actually being there only to find you can barely see them or they look flat and/or chossy.

Morgan Patterson · · NH · Joined Oct 2009 · Points: 8,945

Mobes we still gotta check this zone out... looks like an incredible amount of boulders and cliffs!

business

Brian · · North Kingstown, RI · Joined Sep 2001 · Points: 804
Miike wrote:I've come home and looked at many cliffs on Bing and Google after actually being there only to find you can barely see them or they look flat and/or chossy.
I agree Mike. But conversely, I've looked at cliffs on Bing and Google that looked really promising only to find them flat slabs or 15 feet tall. There is no way around hiking out and relying on the old school technology of eyeballing them. Hope they turn out to be fun. My friend found a cliff in CT that we have been developing that I can't believe no one has found until now. It is apparent by the vegetation that no one has been there in the last 20 years. So there are minor but fun cliffs still out there.
Morgan Patterson · · NH · Joined Oct 2009 · Points: 8,945
Brian wrote:So there are minor but fun cliffs still out there.
And some major undeveloped ones Brian... We just did a new three pitch route a few weeks ago. And what about that last photo I posted? huge cliffs and massive boulders. I would venture to guess your lack of 'goods' correlates with your lack of A LiDAR scan of the state! Bing is great for fumbling around maybe you find something maybe you don't...with LiDAR it either is or isn't. They won't all be huge winners, but they're pretty much all winners with some amount climbing.
Brian · · North Kingstown, RI · Joined Sep 2001 · Points: 804
Morgan Patterson wrote: And some major undeveloped ones Brian... We just did a new three pitch route a few weeks ago. And what about that last photo I posted? huge cliffs and massive boulders. I would venture to guess your lack of 'goods' correlates with your lack of A LiDAR scan of the state! Bing is great for fumbling around maybe you find something maybe you don't...with LiDAR it either is or isn't. They won't all be huge winners, but they're pretty much all winners with some amount climbing.
Morgan, I guess our definition of minor and major cliffs differ. I mean that there are no Ragged Mountains lurking in the woods of CT undiscovered. Take photos of that "huge cliff" once you get out there. Okay I'll have to try LiDAR. You buy stock in it? ;-) I climbed outside in CT today. Mid-50s.
Morgan Patterson · · NH · Joined Oct 2009 · Points: 8,945
Brian wrote: I mean that there are no Ragged Mountains lurking in the woods of CT undiscovered.
Not traprock, but WAY more impressive then RM. Taller harder and most importantly chossier!
Chris Nischan · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2011 · Points: 0

I'm game. Back in CT till Feb.

Chris Nischan · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2011 · Points: 0

And there are definitely some ice routes in Peoples State Forest and American Legion State Forest FYI

Morgan Patterson · · NH · Joined Oct 2009 · Points: 8,945
Chris Nischan wrote:And there are definitely some ice routes in Peoples State Forest and American Legion State Forest FYI
I recalled someone posted those forests and thought I might as well take a look. Seems there's actualyl a lot of rock up there and I would bet it could be a good ice spot. Though I don't see any N/NE facing rocks.
Dmadison · · Jackson, Wy · Joined Jan 2013 · Points: 195

I want to go climb secret CT rock too!

Chris Nischan · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2011 · Points: 0

I went last winter to look for some of the ice routes. Found a couple but not much, we didn't really explore that much though. There's definitely potential for all types of climbing. We ended up climbing this pillar to find that it was TOTALLY DETACHED at the top, pretty much a stalagmite of ice, it was a little scary.

Josh Villeneuve · · Granby, CT · Joined Oct 2010 · Points: 1,814

Finally an area that isn't too far away for me to check out. I've driven past this area hundreds of times and thought there might be "something".

Morgan Patterson · · NH · Joined Oct 2009 · Points: 8,945

Haha well it can't be much of a secret DMadison if I'm posting it here lol...

Josh... what town are you in again? I could send you a link or screen grabs to stuff in your area if you wanted.

Morgan Patterson · · NH · Joined Oct 2009 · Points: 8,945

Haha well it can't be much of a secret DMadison if I'm posting it here lol... WEst Rock quarry on the south end used to be 'secret' lol. Have you been there yet?

Josh... what town are you in again? I could send you a link or screen grabs to stuff in your area if you wanted.

Dmadison · · Jackson, Wy · Joined Jan 2013 · Points: 195

Haha very true. I just know there is so much more in Ct that I have no clue about. I need to get out of this rock gym in RI and explore!

Josh Villeneuve · · Granby, CT · Joined Oct 2010 · Points: 1,814

I am in the Enfield, East Granby area Mo

M Mobley · · Bar Harbor, ME · Joined Mar 2006 · Points: 911

Second Enfield climber in a week I've come across, nice. I'm in long meadow, 3 blocks from Enfield

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