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Elevation: 666 ft
GPS: 41.14677, -76.14145
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Shared By: Jarred Cleerdin on Aug 7, 2009 · Updates
Admins: Justin Johnsen, SCPC, SWPACC, EPAC
Warning Access Issue: Paradise, Library, and Hawk Rock closed to climbing DetailsDrop down

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Paradise is one of the first walls you will see on your way to the Library. The routes are trad leads, with a few supplemental bolts drilled where pro is scarce.

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Parking is by the east bank of the Susquehenna River about half a mile north from the village of Mocanaqua (across the river from Shickshinny).
GPS latitude longitude approx (N41.1482 W76.1447).

Walk NNE through entrance gate to sewage treatment plant and onto dirt road. About 650 feet from parking the road climbs and curves around Right until going aiming South (N41.1500 W76.1426).
. . (Here bearing right SSW for 650 feet gentle, then curving to SE leads to the Paradise cliffs

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Classic Climbing Routes at Paradise

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5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b PG13
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Broken Finger
Trad, TR
5.10b/c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b
 11
I-Beam
Trad, TR
5.10+ 6b+ 21 VII+ 20 E3 5b
 4
Roofing Madness (Reefer Maddness)
Sport
5.11+ 7a 24 VIII 24 E4 6a
 4
New Generation - 5.12a
Trad, Sport
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Broken Finger
 9
5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b PG13 Trad, TR
I-Beam
 11
5.10b/c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b Trad, TR
Roofing Madness (Reefer Mad…
 4
5.10+ 6b+ 21 VII+ 20 E3 5b Sport
New Generation - 5.12a
 4
5.11+ 7a 24 VIII 24 E4 6a Trad, Sport
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