Climbing on marble?

Someone in the "Best Climbing States" thread mentioned being able to climb on marble somewhere in California. Is this for real? Are there places in CA (or anywhere) that you can climb on marble?

Austin Baird wrote:Someone in the "Best Climbing States" thread mentioned being able to climb on marble somewhere in California. Is this for real? Are there places in CA (or anywhere) that you can climb on marble?

Yeah... there are a few places with limestone.

"Geologists use the term "marble" to refer to metamorphosed limestone; however stonemasons use the term more broadly to encompass unmetamorphosed limestone.[1]"

I do climb at a place that seems like polished marble or a kitchen counter. It's Beaver Street Wall inside of SF, but it's actually Venetian Sandstone (so my geo friend tells me). Not worth coming out for, but pretty crazy and LEGITLY polished (you can almost see yourself in it)

Not the best photo of it, but you can see the rope reflection.

legitly!

Beaver Street Wall is chert, not sandstone. Chert is some cool stuff.

Jon Moen wrote:Beaver Street Wall is chert, not sandstone. Chert is some cool stuff.

It's chipped!

Haven't been but apparently the bouldering in Columbia is. And is good.

The word, ladies and gentlemen, is "legitimately."

Also, cool rock.

Legitly > Legitimately

Thanks for this, C Blank!

I'm the one who'd mentioned the marble in the best states thread. After looking, I'm not sure it's here in the database here, and I can't remember the name of the place... The guy I talked to made it sound like this was marble of the statue/countertop variety, but I'm no geologist.

I think it's quartzite, but check out the gemstone-like quality of the rock on Goodro's Crack, in Big Cottonwood Canyon:

GO

"mentioned being able to climb on marble somewhere in California. Is this for real? Are there places in CA (or anywhere) that you can climb on marble?"

Sure. Marble Mountain Wilderness up in the Klamath has marble. Lots of places actually.