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Submitted By: Ladd Raine on Sep 20, 2007
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Maryland


Description 

From the Chesapeake Bay to the hills beyond Hagerstown there is climbing to be found in Maryland, although most of the climbing can be found in central Maryland.

Rock State Park, Carderrock, A-Rock, and other various climbing locations are generally small, short but have beautiful setting and fun moves. Finding a local that knows where the classics are is defintely the crux of Maryland climbing.

Indoors gyms are extremely common, generally huge, and well-kept.


Getting There 

Maryland is a state, there are only 50, learn them know them, and even though the East coast states are small we have fierce devotion to our repective home states so don't say "oh! that is one of the small ones over by..." if you want to make friends.


Guidebooks 

Eric Horst's Rock Climbing Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland does the best job of getting you from area to area and helping you to find the routes.



Tim Toula's aging Rock and Road does a decent job giving you an idea of what to expect out of Maryland climbing


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Maryland:
Tea and Scrumpet   V4     Boulder, 1 pitch, 10 feet   Carderock
Vertical   5.6     Trad, TR, 70 feet   Rocks State Park : Breakaway Wall
Elsie's Other   5.7     TR, 1 pitch, 40 feet   Carderock
Strawberry Jam   5.8+     Trad, 1 pitch, 60 feet   Rocks State Park : Pinnacle
Breakaway Right   5.9     Trad, 1 pitch, 80 feet   Rocks State Park : Breakaway Wall
Buckets of Blood Arete   5.11     TR, 1 pitch, 25 feet   Carderock
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Featured Route For Maryland
Dan Hickstein pulling hard on Buckets of Blood Arete

Buckets of Blood Arete 5.11  MD : Carderock
Perhaps the best steep climb at Carderock, the glorious overhanging arete on the back side of the X-face beckons the passing climber with its siren song of incut crimps on the right and heel-hooks on the left. An optional sit-start increases the difficulty and makes the top moves quite strenuous. ...[more]   Browse More Classics in MD


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By Mike Mu.
Oct 9, 2007

For a better description of Maryland Climbing check out Indy's Climb Maryland book. Here is the link for amazon.com.
http://www.amazon.com/Climb-Maryland-Mark-Indy-Kochte/dp/096>>>>>
It is more thorough than any other guide. Maryland, when you actually go looking has a lot of climbable rock, you just need to get out there and find it.

By freddik
Apr 26, 2009

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