48°31′N 120°39′WWASHINGTON PASS QUADRANGLEELEV. 5,477 FTCONTOUR INTERVAL 40 FT
Climbing
Washington

Rock and mountain climbing in Washington State, mapped: the crags, the peaks and the record of who first climbed them.

Section 01 · Crags

Rock you can reach before the coffee goes cold

The named walls — granite, basalt, and sandstone — and the routes that first put them on the map.

Two climbers scale a steep granite cliff face dotted with sparse vegetation
Index granodiorite, part of the Index batholith, rises straight out of the valley floor at the edge of a town of a few hundred people.
Photo: Index Town Wall · Wikimedia Commons
8 entries
Where they are
Mount BakerMount BakerMount ShuksanMount ShuksanLiberty BellLiberty BellEarly Winter SpiresEarly Winter SpiresForbidden PeakForbidden PeakDarringtonDarringtonThree O'Clock RockThree O'Clock RockMount ErieMount ErieIndexIndexGlacier PeakGlacier PeakPrusik PeakPrusik PeakSnow Creek WallSnow Creek WallCastle RockCastle RockPeshastin PinnaclesPeshastin PinnaclesMount StuartMount StuartExit 38Exit 38Frenchman CouleeFrenchman CouleeRoyal ColumnsRoyal ColumnsMount RainierMount Rainier
How to read this map
Crags — this sectionThe other four sectionsGraticule at two-degree spacing
Numbers match the key below — hover any marker for its name
Eight of the nineteen places on this site sit in Crags, plotted at their real coordinates.
  1. 01Mount Erie
  2. 02Index
  3. 03Snow Creek Wall
  4. 04Castle Rock
  5. 05Peshastin Pinnacles
  6. 06Exit 38
  7. 07Frenchman Coulee
  8. 08Royal Columns
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