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Tahoe climber
climber
Texas to Tahoe
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 4, 2006 - 05:09pm PT
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Hi all,
I might be moving to the San Diego area soon and was wondering about the climbing in the area.
What kind of climbing available and where?
I boulder, trad and sport.
How close to Encinitas?
Best gym (I know there are at least three in the area)?
Most importantly: how long a drive to JTree!!!
TIA
Aaron
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NeverSurfaced
Trad climber
Someplace F*#ked!
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JT about 2 1/2 hours - the rest...?
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Jacob
Trad climber
yucky valley
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i bouldered at the santee boulders all the time, its a good area but alot of people play paintball and ride dirtbikes in the hills out there. but its a ways from encanetas (sp) there is a nice gym in poway but i forgot the name. im not positive on the good areas because i didnt climb much when i lived there but i know its about a 2 to 2 1/2 hour drive depending on traffic and your speed
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Tahoe climber
climber
Texas to Tahoe
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 4, 2006 - 05:35pm PT
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Thanks, guys - keep it coming!
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reddirt
climber
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Tahquitz & Suicide!!!
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michaellane
climber
Spokane, WA
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Hi, Aaron ...
I used to live in SD and it's not a bad place to be a climber. You're two hours from Suicide/Tahquitz and three hours from Joshua Tree and five hours from Red Rocks.
Bouldering: Most popular spots are Santee Boulders, Mt. Woodson. Both are old-school bouldering areas ... mostly thin, crimpy slabs, but Woodson has some classic crack problems.
Trad/Sport: Mission Gorge is most popular ... dirty crag but has a lot of fun lines. Corte Madera is a huge chunk of stone with several multi-pitch lines ... an hour or so outside of town, if I recall correctly. There's been a bunch of new development since I left the area at El Cajon Mountain. And there are also crags outside of Poway, down in Otay near the border and a really cool plug of granite out in the desert about two hours east called Lowenbrau Pinnacle. A few other random crags are there, too. Call Adventure 16 and Nomad Ventures to get more beta ... you can find their numbers on the web.
Gyms: Vertical Hold and Solid Rock
Enjoy the sun!
--Lane
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salad
climber
San Diego
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also decent bouldering in Culp Valley (anza borego desert)
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bryan howell
Big Wall climber
truckee,ca
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Hey Aaron,
I too am moving from Tahoe to SD in 2 weeks. I grew up there and am finally going home.
Anyways, hit up Mt. Woodson. Endless problems to keep you busy for a long time. 2.5 to JTree and T&S. There is a pretty good quide book for the SD area. You can find it at REI, A16 or any of the climbing gyms.
Vertical Hold is the best
Solid Rock has two locations. One in Scripps Ranch (which will be closest to Encinitas for you), the other is just north of the Airport and downtown.
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reddirt
climber
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when I was researching beta for T&S I came across Los Alpinistas .
not sure how active they are but it's a good start?
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crotch
climber
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Encinitas isn't too far from a small sport crag above Lake Hodges. Maybe 20 mins. It's the same kind of rock as Mission Gorge.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
one pass away from the big ditch
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so cal is crap.
don't do it mang.
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brat
climber
Fish Camp, CA
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Unless you're friendly with the folks who developed the crag at Lake Hodges, you'll get your car vandalized if you climb there. It happened a few times when I was living in SD.
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Slakkey
Trad climber
From a Quiet Place by the Lake
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Brat writes, " Unless you are friendly with the folks who developed the crag at Lake Hodges, You will get your car Vandalized if you climb there". Funny I live right on the shores of Lake Hodges and to my knowledge this has not been the case. More than likely it was from some outsiders.
Also there is a Solid Rock Gym in San Marcos. Funny with the exception of Salad the rest who responded to this thread do not live in SD. The others are right though in that J - Tree, Suicide etc. are not far away and it only takes 6 hours to get to the Promised Land Yosemite.
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mdavid
Big Wall climber
CA, CO, TX
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I was climbing those boulders behind lake hodges in 87 and never saw anyone around; it was a nice break from the socializing on woodson over weekends.
If you're stuck in SD instead of norcal I'd go close to woodson, cheaper than other areas and the climbing is very cool.
I found some old pictures and now the office printer is also a scanner.
Next time I'm in town I'm going to go see if this place still exists....
Hodges boulders
Woodson is sometimes crowded (even in 87-89) and people always have ropes on Robbins crack
climbing made high school much better for me.....hitch hiking the grade before I got my liscense proved intersting.
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Slakkey
Trad climber
From a Quiet Place by the Lake
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Living on the shores of Lake Hodges I have the best of many worlds. I can Kayak in the morning before the sun even rises on Wed, Sat, and Sun. I can then go bouldering etc. not far from the house Mid morning and then finish off the afternoon with a windsurfing session on the lake. Not a bad place to live I think.
P.S. Mountain Biking too.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
one pass away from the big ditch
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Dear Slakkey,
We hate you.
Sincerely,
Nor Cal
;)
ps- jam up the I-15 to Big Bear areas and you can Night Ski in the Winter too. It ain't Tahoe, that's fer sure.
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Slakkey
Trad climber
From a Quiet Place by the Lake
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Mungie,
Its all good. I have often thought of giving it all up here in SD and moving to Nor Cal. The traffic continues to get worse, More and More people continue to move down here but I do live in what is a pretty unique area of San Diego County and so for as long as it stays this way its all good.
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Slakkey
Trad climber
From a Quiet Place by the Lake
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P.S. The Hodges Boulders still exist even with the waterfall in the springtime.
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kk
climber
overrun with traffic and people land
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DON'T DO IT!!!!!!!!!
i live in SD and visit Tahoe often, your going to seriously trade DOWN!!!
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