Summer is coming - where to climb?

As the heat rolls in, where do you climb?

My local crags are Stoney Point and Echo Cliffs but I'm afraid will be too hot to climb soon.

Tahquitz should be good if you've got the stomache for the approach and placing gear on long pitches.

Depends what type of climbing. Malibu creek has good bouldering/sport and stays cool all year. Black mountain/tramway for bouldering, Tahquitz for trad. Horse Flats in angeles national forest has good bouldering and some cool top roping.

Brian.... the key to those places is sunshine.... Stay out of it.

Echo this time of year.... roll in at about 2pm, climb till dark, walk out in the dark.

Stoney.... sea breeze rolls in about 4 pm... start in the back, front boulders cool off about 1 hour before sundown. And some of the boyz climb at nite and rig up some lights....

Malibu.... go at sunrise or at sunset, stay in the shade.

Taquitz.... avoid the afternoon bake fest on the popular stuff... F. Trip, Open Book, ...... most of Suicide goes into true shade around 3pm... Except the stuff by "Flower" that gets sun in the late pm cause of the hi sun angle.... after mid Aug it also goes into shade in the afternoon and stays nice.

Headlamp season

happy climbing

Climb at elevation. Tuolumne Meadows, for one.

Frank..... some of my friends go to Bolivia this time of year.

Guy Keesee wrote:Frank..... some of my friends go to Bolivia this time of year.

Thanks for the tips Guy

Any good weather summer climbing in the Ventura area or Ventura to Santa Barbara?

You can still do JTree if you climb early morning or late afternoon/evening too!

Pine Mountain bouldering for Ventura.

Ojai has cooler temps, higher up in the mtns above Ventura, with sport and trad spots beside the bouldering at Pine Mtn. Wheeler Gorge has winding segments that face different directions and get into shade at various times of the day. Sespe Gorge has mostly east facing routes at Black Wall and Potrero John, ie, early am sun but shady rest of the day. San Ysidro at coastal Montecito on east fringe of Santa Barbara also has an east facing wall that gets shade most of the day

All good spots.....

I'll add one or two more..... Poison Dome.... Above the Kern River, up the Sherman Pass Road. At almost 9,500 feet, one finds a beautiful Dome, with a short level hike (mostly)... the climbing starts at 5.9 and goes up from there, home to what has been called the BEST 11C in California (not by me, but it is pretty good)

another is the FISH WALL , by Kennedy Mdws.... shady in the morning, big pines and a creek along the base..... and three miles down the road you can find one of the Original Sport Climbing spots, and home of the first open bolt WAR in the state, The Quality Cliff.

Its summer, lets all get out and enjoy.