Hardest Climbs in San Diego County
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Hey all Looking for the list of the hardest climbs in San Diego County (excluding obvious eliminates and places with significant access issues, i.e. Rainbow). List can include unrepeated climbs and open projects. I don't think I've stumbled upon much over 5.13b/8a or V11/8A, so curious what other climbs might be out there. What do you all think? Trad: 1) 2) 3) Sport: 1) 2) 3) Boulder: 1) 2) 3) Multi-pitch: 1) 2) 3) |
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There is a steep bolted route at Descanso that was supposedly in the 5.14 range, though I'm not sure it ever got done. Walk left of the main wall to find it. Outside of that, seems like there are some bolted .13+ routes going up at El Cajon now, though I have not checked them out. |
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Deerhorn Valley has entered the chat…. |
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Here’s my guesses. Im not sure about bouldering at deerhorn, but I know there’s some 5.13 routes there Trad: Lifeblood 5.13. Lake Ramona, FA: Aden Parker
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Pugnacious Slab wrote: Go finish mega proj already. |
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I feel like the toughest boulder is almost surely some highball tucked away somewhere deep into culp valley. Just too much untouched/high density rock there for that not to be the case. As to sport, yeah, I bet Gordy's routes are probably it. |
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Hardest sport? Surely it's at the fabled, steep, world-class crag up in San Luis Rey Canyon that is on the La Jolla reservation. |
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There are a couple of accessible V11/12's at Woodson, and there are definitely more obscure ones scattered around the county. Misspent Youth V12 (Woodson, unrepeated) America, Fuck Yeah V12 (Woodson) Italian Arrogance V10/11 (Woodson) Asylum is probably harder than V10 Dan Beall had a project near the summit of Woodson that looked pretty elite level but he never completed it And there are a couple V11's at Lake Ramona: Blowass Hulk Smash Low |
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Stefan, there are a couple v13s and v14s at mount woodson. Invisible Monsters(the summit project Aden is referencing) is a really stiff v14 put up by Dan Beall Squamish Shuffle is another dan beall v13 Hypnotoad v14, also dan beall In Culp Valley: There is a v13+ project on the Baja Booty boulder in culp valley Also in that area is a potentially hard 5.12+ route that hasn't been done yet on a rock that has potential for things much harder |