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Description 

Excellent climbing on three main sections of cliff. The cliffs are made of of a tilted bed of limestone that were exposed when the area was quarried years ago. Both face and crack climbs are prevalent. Several of the face routes were put up 20+ years ago, so the bolts may be suspect. Also care must be taken when placing gear in limestone.


Getting There 

See the GPS location. In general, park on the street discretely and discretely walk into the quarry off of Armor Run Road.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Bellefonte Quarry:
El Crackitan   5.9+     Trad, 1 pitch, 110 feet   
Coleman's Crack   5.10b     Trad, 1 pitch, 120 feet   
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Coleman's Crack

Coleman's Crack 5.10b  PA : Bellefonte Quarry
Zig-zagging finger crack at the far right of the main wall. Old guidebook stated that "your second reason for your existance as a climber is to climb this route." Start with very small fingers (tips) on a steep but just under vertical wall. You may have to clean some dirt out of the lower crack to protect well. The crack zig zags providing rests at the short horizontals. The crack widens from tips down low to fingerlock prior to topping out....[more]   Browse More Classics in PA


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By Rick Mix
Nov 25, 2012

El crackitan 5.9+ bwaaaahhhaaaaaaaaa!

The "20 y/o" bolts we put in (20+years ago) are mostly very long so as to penetrate multiple layers in the bedding plane of the rock. Yeah, I typed penetrate... Should still be okay...Prior to that the standard Bellefonte bolt was the total POS self-drive lag shield. Not a bad bolt for the dude placing it,otherwise crap. (Though most of them did hold some long falls.) The change occurred of course when we bagged drilling by hand from stances and went French, er a Sport,nope let's see..ok- top-down on rappel.
Saddens me to see the quarry closed. Lots of memories there.

By Patrick Mulligan
Dec 14, 2012

Then again. I don't ever remember climbing at the Quarry when it was "open".