Crags around Glacier/Baker

[Gordonb]

We will be staying in Glacier over the 4th and I am looking for a place to climb. I will have the family with me so we would like a place we could rig a top rope. We can handle routes up to about 10a. Does anyone know of any walls that have sort top ropable routes?

[ncascademtns]

Get with Catbirdset. He has been to the crags at Glacier and could give you some ideas.

[dryad]

The place is not entirely easy to find. Pick up a guidebook at the WWU bookstore in Bellingham. They might sell them elsewhere too but I don't know where. When I was there we didn't have the book and ended up having a mini-epic on some mossy chossy crap that turned out to be harder than it looks (well, that's not saying much cuz I suck ). The easy crags (I remember one is "Peewee's Playhouse") were actually half a mile further down the road.

[Mr._Natural]

These crags are actually very easy to find. Pee Wee has about 4 really short sport routes, most are hard to set tr's for though. The pumphouse and cobblestone walls are where the majority of routes are. Pumphouse is pretty steep, not too much easy stuff. Cobblestone wall is actually really cool. 4-6 Full pitches of verticle cobbles from 5.8 and up. Dynomerchant (former poster) put most of these routes up. i can pm you with approach deets if you want.

[dryad]

I stand corrected - they're easy to find if you have any clue whatsoever as to where you're going.

[Peter_Puget]

Routes aren't so bad at all. Some cliffs you can even climb in the rain! Get there early if I remember correctly parking can be a problem.

 

PP

[Peter_Puget]

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[iain]

whoa! the tri-fecta

[JoshK]

FWIW, I've actually heard that the routes there aren't all that bad and you can even climb some of the cliffs in the rain.

[Peter_Puget]

Josh - what have you heard about parking?

[JoshK]

Just like everywhere else, they say it can be a problem.

 

sorry, i just couldn't resist responding to the rare and sought after triple post.

[Gordonb]

What is the guide book for the area? Does anyone know if anyone in the Seattle area carries it?

[PONCHO&LEFTY]

the book is Bellingham Rock by Jason Henry (Henrie?)

A little dinky thing. Probably not available in Seattle. Up here it is available at The Basecamp downtown: REI probably has it also.

[mountainguy01]

REI does not carry the Bellingham Rock Guide, Basecamp is the only place that I know carries it. Or just get a hold of Jason, I know he is working on a new one.

[Hiromi]

I also found this place difficult to locate. The "easy" climbs weren't so easy for me! I slipped on the moss and ended up hanging on a 5.4! Oh the shame! Oh yeah, and it was an overhanging 5.4 - like that's even possible! That was a few weeks ago, maybe the moss is at least dry by now.

[PaulB]

Hiromi said:

... Oh yeah, and it was an overhanging 5.4 - like that's even possible!

Go to the Gunks..... it's very possible!

[Szyjakowski]

Btway what happened to dynomerchant? or is jason some other avatar now......hmmmmmmm

[Gordonb]

Well, shit. It seems that basecamp is the only one that carries the book and they will not be open on the 4th when we will be going through b'ham. REI doesn't have it.

[erik]

Gordonb said:

Well, shit. It seems that basecamp is the only one that carries the book and they will not be open on the 4th when we will be going through b'ham. REI doesn't have it.

 

HAVE ONE OF THE BHAM KIDS BUY IT AND TRADE THEM FOR BEER......

 

SOUNDS LIKE LAYTON MIGHT BE INTO SOME HUMAN CONTACT!!!!!

 

 

[Mr._Natural]

cragged here on sunday with team jim beam. good times, steep routes. pump house lives up to its name. first time sport climbing in years.

[Peter_Puget]

Pulling over that final bulge on that center route is harder than it looks from the ground! I did it on a rainy day and thought about bailing – glad I didn’t. Good route though. Too bad the cliff wasn’t a bit higher. Wanna go back and try that route just to the right.

 

PP