Manning Crevice Bridge Area Rock Climbing

These climbs are located up the salmon river road and range in style from mixed slab, bouldering, aid, and a growing number of sport climbs.

The rock is granite gneiss and is finer-grained and lower-friction than the granite slabs at the South Fork of the Clearwater. Portions of the rock are featured (or even heavily featured), but most routes are currently either crack climbs or lower angle slabs. 

The major buttresses run west-to-east up the hill from the road, with gullies in between. Some of the gullies provide good access routes, where others are challenging or impassible.

Almost all of the routes are on south or west facing rock (with the exception of Chocolate Chunk, Thin Mint, and pitch 13 of Graveyard Shift which are on shadier north facing rock, and Salmon River Quiver which is across the river on an east face). On days with full sun, routes which experience afternoon sun are MUCH warmer than the weather forecast indicates. Sunny and "mid-70s" in the afternoon can drive you into bailing out on the lower pitches of Graveyard Shift with heat exhaustion! Summer climbing is possible here, but unless it's cloudy plan on spending the afternoons swimming in the river.  If you're climbing Graveyard Shift in the warmer months a pre-dawn start is highly recommended.