Porter Mountain Rock Climbing
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Elevation: | 2,800 ft | 853 m |
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44.20778, -73.82766 Google Map · Climbing Area Map |
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Shared By: | Robert Hall on Jul 11, 2016 | |
Admins: | Morgan Patterson, Kevin MudRat MacKenzie, Jim Lawyer |
Description
This is the big face so easily seen from the parking lot of the Noonmark Diner, and from many other places in Keene Valley.
Definitely a "wilderness outing", it is less committing than, for example, Wallface but still deserves respect.
Adirondack Rock (Lawyer & Haas) lists several routes here, including the historic 1935 "Goodwin-Stanley".
Definitely a "wilderness outing", it is less committing than, for example, Wallface but still deserves respect.
Adirondack Rock (Lawyer & Haas) lists several routes here, including the historic 1935 "Goodwin-Stanley".
Getting There
June 2018 NOTE: See COMMENT about trail via Little Porter being closed.
Take the trail that leaves the Garden Parking and heads for the Brothers; after about 1/4 mile turn right onto the Porter / Little Porter Trail. After climbing about 1100-1200 vertical feet and a little less than 2 miles you should hit a very flat area with a stream next to the trail.
Adirondack Rock mentions a cairn here, but we just left the trail and contoured around about 1/4 to 1/2 mile through bushes & trees, eventually also boulders. We made (circa 2005) a few cairns on some of the larger boulders, but whether they remain and whether it was/is the "best" path can't say. I recall we took 30-40 minutes from leaving the trail, but if there's been more traffic in the intervening years it might be faster.
Take the trail that leaves the Garden Parking and heads for the Brothers; after about 1/4 mile turn right onto the Porter / Little Porter Trail. After climbing about 1100-1200 vertical feet and a little less than 2 miles you should hit a very flat area with a stream next to the trail.
Adirondack Rock mentions a cairn here, but we just left the trail and contoured around about 1/4 to 1/2 mile through bushes & trees, eventually also boulders. We made (circa 2005) a few cairns on some of the larger boulders, but whether they remain and whether it was/is the "best" path can't say. I recall we took 30-40 minutes from leaving the trail, but if there's been more traffic in the intervening years it might be faster.
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