Good climbs around Mt Thompson

[scottgg]

I am heading up to check out Mt Thompson this weekend, and would like to stumble up some other stuff while I'm up there. Any recomendation on climbs (to 5.7ish) or scrambles you have enjoyed (or wanted to do) in the area?

[AlpineMonkey]

Go give Toppling Tower a shot. Do the 5.5 route in the Beckey, it looks pretty nice. (We rapped down it)

[scottgg]

Looks fun, anyone have any other suggestions?

[Rad]

Throw a toprope down the slabs at the Kendall Katwalk? They look low angle but maybe they'd be fun.

There are also some fins of rock on the S end of Red Mtn right off the trail that might be fun to scramble.

[cook]

Toppling tower

[slothrop]

Are these the slabs you mean, Rad?

 

[Rad]

Yep. The ones in the distance. The trail runs right across the top of them. The slabs are South facing just East (right in your photo) of Red mtn (Red Mtn is, you know, the red one).

 

Just to be clear, I have never climbed on them myself, just looked down them on the way to and from Thompson. There are numerous ledges, and they are fairly low angle, but they are quite tall - perhaps more than 60m? - and the rock looks decent. Someone MUST have climbed them before, given the thousands that walk past.

 

Let us know what you find!