Photo: Marc Dilley surmounts the overhanging crux of Gun Rack at Clem’s Holler Three popular crags can be accessed from the same parking area and along the same user trail located less than a mile west of Leavenworth in the...Read More...
Summit Post details this trail nicely and includes photographs. Click here to view the post. Adapted from Summitpost.org: Witches Tower is the distinct rock pinnacle at the west end of the Enchantments just south east of Dragontail Peak . It divides...Read More...
Photo: Charlie Hickenbottom on the opening moves of “Tubbing at Der Ritterhof” on the Sport Wall at Rattlesnake Rock in the Tumwater Canyon. Written by Charlie Hickenbottom When it warms up again and you are looking for shady climbing, consider...Read More...
Maps. See our map. Skill: 3 (advanced) technically these walls are moderate and harder Fitness: 2 (intermediate) these walls are short. But they’re steep and crimpy FatMan, SkinnyMan, Powerhouse, M and M walls pdf pictures and route info (this takes a...Read More...
Maps. See our map. Skill: 3 (advanced) Fitness: 2 (intermediate) Middle East, Dungeon, Sanctuary pdf: Pictures and route info (this takes awhile to load). Shady summer climbing: Middle East Wall. The Middle East and Sunshine walls are the two great column-bearing...Read More...
Attraction. The Sunshine Wall and the Feathers are two of the most popular places to climb at Vantage/Frenchman Coulee. There are well-protected routes of all difficulty on solid rock. Maps. See our map. Skill: 2 (intermediate) these walls accommodate 5.6 climbers...Read More...
Skill: 3 (advanced) Fitness: 2 (intermediate) Maps. See our map. Corn, Millennium, Hen House areas pdf pictures and route info (this takes a moment to load but is worth the wait). Corn Wall. The Corn Wall / Millennium Wall /...Read More...
Our Selected Climbs of Frenchman Coulee was compiled, photographed, and written in 2006 by Marc A. Dilley, a Wenatchee-based climber well-versed in the area’s routes and natural history. This page, and our affiliated listings about rock climbing at Frenchman Coulee/Vantage,...Read More...
Mark and Sarah Shaffer climbing “Outerspace” a highly touted climbing route right outside of Leavenworth. It has great “chicken heads” to use on top of crack climbing making it a crack/face climb all in one. You can see the chicken...Read More...
Article by Stuart Freed. Photos by Mark and Judy Millette. If you are like me and start to lose focus or daydream of making the perfect ‘bottom turn’ whenever leaves begin rustling in the wind, then you should know about...Read More...