Bear Mountain Slab Rock Climbing
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Shared By: | john strand on Jul 12, 2008 |
Admins: | Jay Knower, M Sprague, Lee Hansche, Jeffrey LeCours, Jonathan S, Robert Hall |
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Getting There
Just west from Rainbow/Crack In The Woods on the north side of the river. Park at a Forest Service road and cross the river (grade 2-3). Straight in and up a steep hill to big boulders- the cliff is another 10 minutes.
mmm? The best "straight in" approach to Bear Mt is actually a fair distance West of the "Webster"-river-crossing for Crack-in-the-Woods and Rainbow.
I'd think a better approach is to park at the Upper Falls ("Rocky Gorge") parking, cross the river on the footbridge, and take a right to follow the "tourist" trail up and around past the East/South end of the pond and pick up the Nam-----cook Ski/Bike trail. Follow this South/East a short distance until it splits, take the left fork for the "upper path". Up an easy grade, then the trail swings right (careful not to follow an old logging road which goes "straight" here) and levels off. Watch for a 20 ft high boulder on the left, then another 15-20 foot-er on the right [photo]; leave the trail at the 2nd boulder with a 90-degree left-hand turn and bushwhack to the cliff. (Somewhere I have the exact compass bearing and will add it to this description.) If the trail starts to descend fairly consistently, you've gone past the boulder(s).
Grant Simmons adds the following: (From Rocky Gorge) Hike the Nanamocomuck Ski Trail for 0.5 miles to a well-marked junction just uphill from a bridge. Turn left onto the Wenunchus Ski Trail [That must be where I say the "trail splits', R Hall] and follow for approximately 5 minutes (after a couple of minutes, the ski trail turns to the remnants of a skidder trail from the logging operation) until you see the boulders.
At the moment (Summer 2017), there is a rough trail that is generally easy to follow from the ski trail to the base of the cliff, but who knows how long that will last.
Also, if you are lucky, when you get close to the cliff you may "hit" a monstrous boulder with a fabulous roof crack.
As for actually finding the climbs...I have to agree with John, the base is a not-seen-from-the-road jumble of steep slopes with years of leaves, sometimes wet and mossy slab and generally quite an "adventure". R Hall
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