Rock Climbing Spotted in Shows and Movies

I just finished watching Manhunt Deadly Games on Netflix.  Highly recommended.

I noticed what appeared to be some rock routes in the show. It was supposed to take place in Nantahal Wilderness in N. Carolina. Does anyone recognize this boulder, and corresponding cave? Further more, has anyone caught routes in other shows or movies, that didn’t mean to feature them?

I saw the nose in the Dawn Wall

The boulders at Carver Bridge Cliff in Oregon is used for the movie twilight.  

Good stuff.  haha

Westworld has some stellar rock in it.

Plus it had Dead Horse Point.

And Mulan had the Clay Cliffs near Omarama.

The world has sooooo much tasty stone in it. : - ) 

Some of the fantasy world sequences in the Netflix show Maniac were filmed at Peterskill in the Gunks--I recognized the tops of Skink and Golden Dream. It's weird because they CGI'ed in some really steep granite-looking towers into the background that look completely different from the Gunks horizontal-y quartz conglomerate.

Some Squamish bouldering shows up in "Man in the High Castle" forest scenes.  They didn't brush before filming..

At the end of one of the seasons, I think 2 or 3 of blindspot, she was supposedly free soloing in the himalays, but it was actually High E route in the Gunks.

Rated TV-14: nudity, language, gore, smoking

Wonder what that translates to on the V scale?

tallguy wrote:

Some Squamish bouldering shows up in "Man in the High Castle" forest scenes.  They didn't brush before filming..

Squamish shows up a lot as Van is such a film hub. The Interview and Star Trek come to mind off the top of my head.

Those West World rocks are like some grainy assed craptastical Vasquez Rocks in SoCal. Long time fav for Hollywood westerns, Star Trek and really, probably numbers in the hundreds, literally. Classic creepy weird neighborhood getting to it, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_productions_using_the_Vasquez_Rocks_as_a_filming_location

Elan T wrote:

At the end of one of the seasons, I think 2 or 3 of blindspot, she was supposedly free soloing in the himalays, but it was actually High E route in the Gunks.

I think I did High E right after them. The stunt double was a pro climber who looked familiar but I never figured out who she was.

Dan Cooksey wrote:

I just finished watching Manhunt Deadly Games on Netflix.  Highly recommended.

I noticed what appeared to be some rock routes in the show. It was supposed to take place in Nantahal Wilderness in N. Carolina. Does anyone recognize this boulder, and corresponding cave? 

McConnell Mills state park Near Pittsburgh and the boulder is called Ross’s boulder. Go climb it.  

Honnold soloing on family guy

Diablo Canyon near Santa Fe, NM is in the opening scene of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Elan T wrote:

At the end of one of the seasons, I think 2 or 3 of blindspot, she was supposedly free soloing in the himalays, but it was actually High E route in the Gunks.

Here's the clip - climbing starts at 0:38:

Marc801 C wrote:

Here's the clip - climbing starts at 0:38:

Yep, this is it thanks for finding the clip. I was watching live and was like hot dam, that's the Gunks! and its HIGH E!

Marc801 C wrote:

Here's the clip - climbing starts at 0:38:

Ha!  Such smooth technique.

Marc801 C wrote:

Here's the clip - climbing starts at 0:38:

Not to be overly nitpicky, but she's not actually on High E.

As she's coming up to the High E ledge, she's actually on the easy section that finishes Directissima. It would be easy to top out the first pitch of High E this way by traversing right, but I don't think that's how most people do it.

When she tops out the very top of the cliff, she's actually a bunch of climbs left of High Exposure, between Erect Direction and Vanishing Point. It seem unlikely to me that she actually pulled the roof below her on solo: it's not a route in the Gunks App and the rock seems pretty lichen-y. It seems more probable that she downclimbed the easy stuff above the roof, stuck her foot around the roof as if she had just pulled the roof, and topped out from there.

J R wrote:

McConnell Mills state park Near Pittsburgh and the boulder is called Ross’s boulder. Go climb it.  

No way! I grew up in Pittsburgh.  That’s really McConnell’s Mill?

Matthew Tangeman wrote:

Squamish shows up a lot as Van is such a film hub. The Interview and Star Trek come to mind off the top of my head.

Yea, the show Virgin River has all kinds of B roll of the Chief and Squamish Valley.   I want to say there is a scene in the new Red Dawn movie that has Squamish in it as well