eastern OR rock...dihedrals etc.

[Jarred_Jackman]

Anybody been to an area called the Dihedrals? Also, I know there has to be some climbing in the Blues, Spring mtn and such, what else is there between washington, smith, and idaho, besides farm land?

 

thanks

[gapertimmy]

i think there was a thread a while back about rock routes in the wallowa's in NE oregon near enterprise.

 

I have a hiking guidebook for the area that has some route descriptions in it, i'll bring it to work tomorrow

 

i haven't climbed them but beta is beta

[sketchfest]

You might try sending a PM to Terminal Gravity, I hear he's up on that area.

[Thinker]

there are some AWESOME limestone sprot routes in Hell's Canyon on the OR/ID border. Kevin Pogue has a good description of some of the routes, approaches, etc on his website. I'll dig around for it and post it here if I find it.

 

(I know, I know, after razzing DFA about sporties originating from the abyss and all I'll certainly catch it for this post....but hey, I don't really discriminate against the odd bolt when I run across it......)

[Thinker]

Here it is.....

Pogue's climbing page with link to Hells Canyon

 

I heard climbers from Boise and La Grande were the primary route developers. Kevin or shops in one town or the other may have some topos.

 

I was there a couple of years ago with no more than a cryptic description of how to get to one of the crags. We climbed for a day on single pitch sprot routes. Rumor has it there are multipitch routes up to 6 pitches there. The limestone is in good shape and the setting is nice...no traffic, no crowds (when I was there).

 

Anyone else have more beta on HC?

[Jim]

Thanks for this link to the web page. I've been out at Big Bar for but didn't have time to get over to the crags that I heard about. I didn't know this was an established place. Very hot, miles from nowhere.

[rbw1966]

Hells Canyon: just on the idaho side from Halfway (or is it still half.com?) and upriver are a number of sport routes you can view from the campground. As mentioned before, no crowds, nice limestone and tons of routes. Since I was last there I heard its been developed extensively with a guidebook rumored to be on the way.