Missoula, MT

Not sure if i'm in the right region, but here goes. I'm looking for climbing around Missoula. What's good for trad and sport...hell i'll settle for bouldering ;)

Thx...Nathan

There's a bunch in the Bitterroots just south of Missoula:

The Falcon Guide called "Climbing Montana" is probably a great place to start. Kootenai Canyon has good single pitch mostly trad and for bigger, more adventure drive south to Blodgett Canyon.

There a Blodgett Canyon section on MP but I think rockclimbing.com has a bigger database of Missoula area climbing though. rockclimbing.com/routes/Nor…

Have fun

There is a ton of climbing in all of the canyons south of Missoula, in the bitterroots. Big Creek and Kootenai are the most popular for sport routes, and most of the other canyons contain bigger stuff. If you travel south through Hamilton you'll come to lost horse canyon, which has some great bouldering as well as some very fun splitter cracks to do.
Heading east toward Drummond, you can find two limestone sport areas in the bearmouth wilderness. These are about a 45 minute drive and very fun rock, in the rattler gulch and mulkey gulch areas.
There is a lot more to do in the Lolo pass area as well, scattered from the montana side into Idaho. The falcon guide is a good start to all these areas, although not updates, but not many guides are.

Not sure about Missoula, but there's a ton of stuff around Helena and Butte. I'd suggest you go into Pipestone Mountaineering and ask.

What are the names of the limestone crags east of Missoula and what's the best way to get route information?
Thank you!

Conor Dysinger wrote:There is a ton of climbing in all of the canyons south of Missoula, in the bitterroots. Big Creek and Kootenai are the most popular for sport routes, and most of the other canyons contain bigger stuff. If you travel south through Hamilton you'll come to lost horse canyon, which has some great bouldering as well as some very fun splitter cracks to do. Heading east toward Drummond, you can find two limestone sport areas in the bearmouth wilderness. These are about a 45 minute drive and very fun rock, in the rattler gulch and mulkey gulch areas. There is a lot more to do in the Lolo pass area as well, scattered from the montana side into Idaho. The falcon guide is a good start to all these areas, although not updates, but not many guides are.

The limestone crags are called Mulky gulch and Rattler gulch, Rattler being a few miles further. I prefer the climbing in Rattler. They are almost to Drummond when heading east on I-90, take the bearmouth exit and cross the river, the continue east on this road. There are signs at the begin of each road/gulch(dirt roads on the left), probably about 10-15 miles after getting off the Interstate. There is some info in the Montana falcon guide, not all of the routes are included, and some routes listed on rc.com. Neither source has all the routes since there has been a little more development of the areas.

Go to Blodgett Canyon right next to Hamilton and for bouldering go into Lost Horse Canyon a little further down HWY 93 between Hamilton and Darby. Enjoy!