It all started in 1978 when I took a basic snow and rock class in Seattle and learned how much I loved climbing. Living at the foothills of the North Cascades and only ten minutes from the Index Town Walls provided me with the opportunity to hone my climbing skills. If you have never been to Index the walls are steep and hard. A lot of the routes there still have manky 1/4 inch bolts for protection which makes the routes a bit dicey. Like every other new climber I was reading everything I could get my hands on about climbing and spending most of my money on gear and road trips. Got into the Everett Mountaineers course for a few years and did some instructing with them. Since then most of my climbing has been done with a few close friends. If you don't know already it rains a lot in Washington State. That is a problem if you are into rock climbing so most of my vacations are planned around finding the sunshine. There are many popular places to climb in Washington State. There is Index, land of steep granite walls, Exit 38 which is undercut rhinostone, Mt. Erie with it's great views of Puget Sound, Icicle Canyon with it's diversity and Vantage with never ending basalt columns. So what is this site really about? Hopefully it is my way of sharing stories and humor about my passion, climbing. Below are some general links to climbing areas, feel free to start exploring.

Baker Crags	Exit 38	Mt. Baker	Stevens Pass
Banks Lake	Fifes Rock	Mt. Erie	Stuart
Banks Lake Golf	Fossil Rock	Needles	Swauk Pinnacles
Beacon Rock	Gloyd Seeps	Newhalem Rock	Talon
Big Rock	Goat Rocks	North Cascades 1	Tattoosh
Butler's Bluff	Goat Wall	North Cascades 2	The Bend
Cap Sante Point	Granite Point	Olympics	The Falls
Castle Rock	Green Giant	Palisades	Three O'clock Rock
Cayuse	Horse Thief	Peshastin	Tieton River
Chimney Rock	Hurricane Ridge 1	Rabbit Ears	Tower Rock
Chuckanut Rock	Hurricane Ridge 2	Rainbow Rocks	Tum-Tum Canyon
Chumstick Snag	Hyak 1	Rainier	Turtle Rock
Cigar Rock	Hyak 2	Rocks of Sharon	Twin Sisters
Constance Rock	Hyak 3	Royal Columns	Twin Sisters 2
Cowlitz Chimney	Icicle Creek	Sandy Slab	UW Rock
Darrington	Index Walls	Schurman Rock	Van Zandt Rock
Deep Creek	Kloochman Rock	Sehome Hill	Vantage
Deep Creek 2	Larrabee	Sleeping Beauty	Walker Valley Boulders
Dishman	Leavenworth 1	Snow Creek Wall	Washington Pass
Echo Rock	Leavenworth 2	Spectator Rock	Wild Cat Rock
Equinox Rock	Leavenworth 3	Spire Rock	Wine Spires
Exfoliation Dome	Lunch Hour	Split Rock
Exit 32	Moon Rocks	Static Point

Other Skykomish Valley climbing areas:

Static Point:

Drive U.S. 2 through the town of Sultan to the east end, then take a left on Sultan Basin Road. Head north for 13 miles to the Spada Lake reservation booth. Continue straight ahead, then the road goes down and to the right and then crosses over a bridge. After .1 miles on the right will be a primitive dirt road. Follow this 1 mile until you get to a large parking lot. Walk the last .6 miles until you get to a rocky stream bed. Look left up the gully and you can see the wall. Hike up the stream gully where the trail is obvious. The routes here at Static Point have long run outs. Climbing here is on large friction slabs so bring a small rack and a lot of runners for tying off protection. You will need long ropes for the double rope rappels.

Zeke's Boulder:

Two miles east of Gold Bar Zeke's Burgers are on the right. Just past Zeke's and 500 feet past the end of the the four lanes is this 25 foot boulder on the right side of the road. Someone has been doing some cleaning on the long side of it lately and there is one bolt on top. There is an easy way up the east side providing access to the summit. On the back side are some bouldering routes which are usually chalked up.

Zeke's Wall:

 At the east end of Gold Bar on US 2 take a left north on Reiter road. Keep going a couple miles to the obvious left turn, continue straight ahead until you reach Reiter Pit. Just after this is a gravel road heading north. After this it is kind of sketchy because I have never been to this wall. From postings on the web it seems this is a new area with with some stout 5.11 routes. If anyone out there has the beta, e-mail me: wallrat510@hotmail.com

Eagle Falls:

Drive US 2 Highway east of the Index turnoff 4 miles  to milepost marker 39. There are some small pullouts on both sides of the road. Drop down from the highway to the beautiful scenery of the falls which has on the left side a fun 15-20 ft high wall to boulder on. There are numerous gigantic bolts on top of the wall which can be used for belaying etc... This is a fun place to take the family on a picnic, of course with your hidden intension of bouldering.

Skykomish Wall:

Drive 30 miles east of Monroe on US 2 and take a right off the highway at Money Creek campground. Continue about a mile past the campground on the Old Cascade Highway, and just on the other side of the bridge is a turnoff where the Burlington Northern railroad crosses. Park on the right next to a gate. The last time I was there the lock in the gate still had the key in it! On the other side of the gate is a huge quarry wall with a mine opening at it's base. Scoping out this wall I managed to only see one bolt near the middle of the wall. Have been here numerous times playing around and no one has ever bothered me here. It would be nice to have more routes put up on this wall, seems like there is some  potential here.

Ramone Rock:

At the top of Stevens Pass is this little gem. At Stevens Pass summit, park across the highway on the side opposite from ski lifts. Walk up the jeep road past a microwave tower for about 15 minutes, as the trail starts  cresting instead of staying on the trail, head left to the edge where Ramone wall can be top roped. There are no anchors on top except trees and they are a ways back from the edge so bring plenty of runners. There are about 15 routes here on solid granite rating from 5.8 - 5.11, bring a rack.