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Great Unclimbed Areas?

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Keith Wood · · Elko, NV · Joined May 2019 · Points: 480

I was cruising Google Earth and ran across this area. Thousand foot walls of granite abound here and in the huge surrounding region, yet I can't find any reference to any climbing. Maybe this is a new frontier for climbers.

What other great unclimbed areas await us? Submit your candidates.

Paolo A · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Nov 2016 · Points: 5
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Here's a reference. It looks like it rains a lot there, but that area does look awesome.
Dan Bookless · · Bend, OR · Joined Oct 2015 · Points: 2,036

Looks slabby 

Josh S · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Nov 2014 · Points: 0

Daniel's river valley...

Spider Savage · · Los Angeles, ID · Joined May 2007 · Points: 540

Basin and Range is filled with great unclimbed stuff.  I just drove highway 225 up into Owyhee county Idaho from Elko and saw lots of really great day-crag stuff.  Both volcanics and granite.

Keith Wood · · Elko, NV · Joined May 2019 · Points: 480

Yeah that's a great road. I've eyed some of that too. I live in Elko and travel that road at times.

Matthew Tangeman · · SW Colorado · Joined May 2015 · Points: 1,113

There are soooo many valleys like that all along the western coast of Canada, Alaska, and Chile. The Daniels and the Eldred and Cochamo are prime examples that have now become popular. No doubt many more will emerge and the potential is endless if you don't mind dirt-filled cracks and licheny slab and rain.

Old lady H · · Boise, ID · Joined Aug 2015 · Points: 1,375
Spider Savage wrote: Basin and Range is filled with great unclimbed stuff.  I just drove highway 225 up into Owyhee county Idaho from Elko and saw lots of really great day-crag stuff.  Both volcanics and granite.

I can't speak for other areas, but around here? Don't confuse "undeveloped" with "unclimbed", lol! 

If you decide to explore the Owyhee mountains, be cautious. They're still finding abandoned mines up there. BLM friend almost rode an ATV into thin air a couple years ago. And he's the mine guy, knows where that shit is! There's a fair amount of chossy stuff too, that looks good from afar. The stuff is almost always smaller in person, too. 

That Oregon/Nevada/Idaho chunk is remote and empty, and almost unknown. Some of it is WSA, and other protected spaces, and plenty of active mining still, so there's that, too.

Still, a wild and favorite place, even if I don't get out there much.

Best, Helen
Keith Wood · · Elko, NV · Joined May 2019 · Points: 480

Seitz Canyon in the Ruby mountains in Nevada has this ~800 foot wall that, so far as anyone knows, seems to have no routes on it. It is near Lamoille Canyon. Rock should be granite or metamorphics of some sort.

Robert Hall · · North Conway, NH · Joined Aug 2013 · Points: 28,893

Greece - I coined a phrase for all the cliffs JAuCC (pronounced "Jock") "Just Another un-Climbed Cliff"  
At least one town-council/mayor's office will supply you with a bolt gun and bolts if you go and put in new routes.
Of course, you can't get there until USA controls it's covid outbreak.

David Suckstorff · · Unknown Hometown · Joined May 2016 · Points: 613
Robert Hall wrote: Of course, you can't get there until USA controls it's covid outbreak.

I sincerely wish this is what it would take the the US to contain this outbreak. I can't wait to get on some European rock again

Keith Wood · · Elko, NV · Joined May 2019 · Points: 480

Ship Island Lake Indeed! Wow!

Bill Enger · · Seattle, WA · Joined Apr 2017 · Points: 456

Kaleetan Peak, West Face. And it is actually in this region, Pacific Northwest. As Fred said, it's pre-Tertiary melange. A 600-foot face, there's only one pitch on it, an open project. Four-hour approach, in wilderness so no power drills.

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

Pacific Northwest
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