Welcome to the ClimbingWashington website! This site was initially conceived as an extension of Jeff Smoot’s climbing guidebooks, as a means of circulating new route information, corrections, and conditions, and it will definitely serve that purpose in the future. However, this site will also contain much more information, including feature articles, trip reports, news, descriptions and photos of classic climbs, and links to other climbing websites and resources. This site will be updated often with new features and reports. It is hoped that ClimbingWashington.com will become a leading resource for Washington climbers, and climbers planning a visit to our wet-but-wonderful state. Please visit often!

ClimbingWashington.com has been selected to be the ClimberOnline Site of the Week for the week of 12/04/2000! Weather and Avalanche Beta Lowell Skoog has a comprehensive site with topos, weather forcasts, camera images and lots more for the northwest area Route Info and News If you have any route information or climbing related news to share, such as first ascents, new variations, guidebook errors, etc., please contact us! Features If you have a funny or epic story to share, or want to tell all about your favorite crag, route, area, or spout an opinion, let us know!

Tim Wilson on Rock 'n Rattle (5.11c), Rattlesnake Rock, Leavenworth. Photo: Jeff Smoot. What's New: Still working, although not as much spare time as I thought...(3/30/2008) Major reconfiguration of the site in the works, now that I have some spare time... (8/3/2007) Bouldering guide to Leavenworth and Gold Bar boulders published. Must check it out. (8/1/2007) We used to have a term, "Dickish Nomenclature". What did it mean? (8/1/2007) Uploaded photos to Never Never. (12/31/2006) I continue to live under a rock. But the Rock Climbing Washington update is done. (12/18/2006) Larry King does a live special on the Mount Hood tragedy. His point: "Climbing is crazy. You are all insane." A great follow up to Nancy Grace, who asked the really important questions: "What are crampons for?" And is anybody else sick of the local news media referring to us as "hikers"? I have alerted Ken Schram...(12/17/2006) Todd Skinner killed in fall in Yosemite. Equipment failure to blame. Well, pardner, you gave 'em a hell of a fight. (10/23/2006) If you are interested in climbing the 100 highest summits in Washington, check John Roper's Web page or look for Summit Routes: Washington's 100 Highest Peaks, a new guidebook by Scott Stephenson and Brian Bongiovanni. (1/15/2005) In the Works... Check back soon for the following features/articles that are "in the works": The UW Rock: A Retrospective More Classic Climbs Larry Kemp Photos and Tribute

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Disclaimer
The activities described on this web site are potentially dangerous. Rock climbing and mountaineering involve unavoidable risks including the risk of serious bodily injury and death. All forms of wilderness recreation have a higher level of risk than many ordinary activities. These risks include but are not limited to slips, falls, falling objects, equipment failure, being injured by equipment both properly and improperly used, automobile accidents, insect and animal attacks, accident or illness in remote places, forces of nature, effects of weather, rockfall, icefall, avalanches, falls into crevasses and moats, and other hazards of traveling in mountainous terrain, as well as accidents resulting from fatigue, exercise of poor judgment, and inexperience. This web site contains compilations of verified and unverified climbing route information gathered from many different sources. Although some of this information is intended to assist climbers in locating and following climbing routes, it is neither represented nor guaranteed to be accurate or complete. Mountain conditions change from day to day and season to season, rendering any information subject to change without warning. Do not trust your personal safety to any information presented here. Climbing safely depends on your own good judgment, based on experience and a realistic assessment of your climbing ability, weather, and route conditions. However, given all of the potential hazards of mountain travel, safety can not be guaranteed even in the exercise of perfect judgment. Those lacking climbing experience should seek professional help, and hire a guide or enroll in a climbing instruction course before venturing into the mountains on their own. The owner and publisher of this web site do not assume any responsibility or liability for your safety. Those who use this information, and those who venture onto mountainous terrain, do so at their own risk.

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