For those who fall in love with Vermont, it's more than just local climbing. Vermont has long granite slabs, overhanging sport routes, beautiful schist and granite boulders, lakeside limestone, adventurous trad lines, and of course, world-class ice climbing. All in a setting that people drive hundreds of miles just to gawk at. And with many cliffs that you will never see another person at, it's our hidden gem of New England and it's hiding in plain sight. Vermont is no longer just a central location to the neighboring rock of the Adirondacks and the White Mountains, it stands proud with its own 5-star lines as good as any in the Northeast.
Vermont has a storied history of bold first ascents and adventure climbing. The climbing and bouldering here is on state, private, and LCO-owned land and while many of the access issues have been smoothed out through the tireless work of our local grassroots access group, CRAG-VT (www.cragvt.org), use care and check with locals before heading out.
So be it schist, granite, limestone, or ice, Vermont indeed has plenty to offer. Ranging from thuggishly steep to thin and technical, and from the bolted lines in Bolton Valley, to multi-pitch adventure climbing in the Northeast Kingdom and Smugglers' Notch. The climate and topography of Vermont offers visiting climbers a chance to sample a bit of everything, so long as you have a broad sense of adventure, don't mind getting be-knighted from time to time, and regularly like climbing in the face of black flies and bushwhack-themed adversity. Once past those minor hurdles (and after you drink the Kool-Aid!), you will, no doubt, find great pleasure in all that Vermont climbing has to offer.
Historical Note: Vermont and its climbing is on land stolen from the Abenaki, Mohawk, and Penacook indigenous people.
* Bolton
* Groton
* Chaffee Falls - CURRENTLY CLOSED
* Roxbury
* Jamaica
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NEK
Augusta, ME
Augusta, ME
The summit area of Camel's Hump is one of only three areas of arctic / alpine tundra in the entire state. Please, please respect the guidelines the GMC and state naturalists have outlined and stay on the trail in these areas. Just because there is little obvious to you that might be impacted by scrambling doesn't mean it isn't there.
Cheers,
Derek Sep 19, 2012
St. Paul, MN
Montreal, QC
Apologies if this is a dumb question, I am not from the area. Oct 22, 2017
But don't take my word for it. Head up there and explore. It's a cool place to hike around for sure. Oct 25, 2017
Vermont
Burlington
Calais, VT
Been working this route with Edge Fuentes the last couple of weekends. We have decided to abandon trying this climb since there's an approximately 15 feet by 6 feet by 2 feet piece of granite part way broken off, at the top of the face, below the capping roof. If it fell off, rather when it falls off, it would go directly down the climb and continue to the ground, a total of about 100 meters. The piece of rock is already part way broken off and is hinging down to the left, the crack it has opened is used for gear, and is climbed to get to the top-out mantel. At the base of the piece there is an wide undercling which also takes gear, this also shows how the whole thing is separate from the face it is resting on. There is a small tree about 5 inches in diameter growing out directly under the piece, and it looks like if that were cut off at the base the piece of rock might go, the piece is currently resting on it. Nov 7, 2022