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Cragging in Jackson
I’ve always wondered about the cragging around Jackson. Sure the mountaineering is top notch, but what is there to do if you don’t want to hike for two hours? Well, while the options aren’t huge, turns out there is some fun stuff lurking in the shadows of the peaks. I’ve been sneaking away during the wedding week festivities here to sample some of the local stone.
Boulder Town is an area of glacial erratics over by String Lake, with blocks from 5 to 30 feet tall. Some even have top anchors and are used by local guide services for teaching kids. I only had an hour, but found some fun problems to play around on, and saw many more that looked really fun. The setting, of course, was beautiful.
Yesterday we made it up to the Rodeo Wall for a quick morning session. This small cliff is 20 minutes from town and offers a dozen or so routes on featured limestone. From small crimps to big pockets, this wall seemed to have a good variety of styles, and we had a good time checking it out.
We’re hoping to get out and sample the Guides Wall, a cragging objective with a “short” approach by Teton standards (1 hour?). Stay tuned for more fun from the north country.
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I’m no Jackson local, but we’ve done a little cragging in the area before. Rodeo wall was a lot of fun, and surprisingly quiet for a sport area with so many moderates.
I don’t know if the “Guides Wall” you are talking about is the same one we climbed, but that was our second-day route with Exum 5 years ago. We climbed about 10 pitches up that wall, and didn’t even top out. I don’t know if I would call it “cragging” but it did have a bolted rap route, and was TONS of fun.
We also found another limestone climbing area – Blacktail Butte, that is east of the road through the Teton National Park. It was mostly harder (11’s and 12’s) sport routes, which were all easily toproped. Here is the page on mp.com: http://www.mountainproject.com/v/wyoming/grand_teton_national_park/blacktail_butte/105831308
Getting there: Park in a developed turnout just a little North of the Moose junction (a few miles north of the airport). Follow the stairs up to Lower Blacktail Butte, or the trail heading south to Upper Blacktail.
Have fun!