Crab Town Climbing

Located just south of Carmel, this and other nearby areas are a good choice if you get stuck in Monterrey visiting people that love golf. Climbing is... different. For huge cliff lovers, this probably isn't the place for you. For people that love the feel of short granite boulder problems, this will tease you, but probably won't appease you unless you're really hungry to climb.

There are no access fees. Nor are there very many people that bother to go much further than the pullouts, so this will be and feel very open and remote.

An interesting part of climbing in this and other local areas is that the rock is pretty solid, but is ever moving and changing due to tides and other weather related anomalies that hit the south facing coast. If you're willing to swim about 20 yards, there probably some first ascents awaiting you (I might be wrong.)

Crabs are present, but not overflowing. Gulls are around, as are seaweed. This is a great place to bring your kids - not for climbing but for checking out the tide pools. Let your kids play with the crabs as you boulder and toperope some interesting routes that consistently have horrible landings on slippery rocks and other oddities.

All routes can be walked off. All routes will have short difficult sections, mostly one move wonder climbing.

Climbing by locals has gone on for years, but it seems that not too many other people have moved in and adventured in the Big Sur area. Perhaps this will change.