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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Apr 30, 2012 - 04:48pm PT
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Kolsås is a fine cliff in a suburb of Oslo, and is accessible by rapid transit. It features about 300 one to three pitch routes. Plus Claude Monet made a painting of it, and there's a NATO base underneath it.
There's other good climbing in the Oslo area, including things like Hauktjern. Plus Oslomarkka, the green belt surrounding the city, has excellent cross country skiing, walking, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kols%C3%A5s
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supafly
Trad climber
vancouver, bc
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Apr 30, 2012 - 04:50pm PT
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cape town - similar crime rate to rio as well!
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bergbryce
Mountain climber
South Lake Tahoe, CA
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Apr 30, 2012 - 06:04pm PT
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I thought I'd seen some cool pics from Hong Kong before??
Innsbruck, Austria is an incredible mountain city. Down in a valley surrounded by big mountains, great food and the kindest people.
Switzerland has to have some good climbing cities, the whole country is mountainous.
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ddriver
Trad climber
SLC, UT
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Apr 30, 2012 - 07:25pm PT
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Arco is best in town climbing scene I've been to. You know, where you can walk to the crag and it rocks, then walk to dinner, and that also rocks. Forget I mentioned this.
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CTW
climber
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Apr 30, 2012 - 07:46pm PT
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Not Chattanooga. Not even close.
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Andy Fielding
Trad climber
UK
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Apr 30, 2012 - 07:58pm PT
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OK, some definitions. Most be at least 100,000 in population and climbing must be WITHIN the city limits. That rules out my suggestion. Calpe only has about 20,000 people but it still has a great mountain in its back yard.
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Apr 30, 2012 - 08:24pm PT
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Bottom line.....
It's Los Angeles with Stoney Point, trash gets picked up, graffiti effectively covered. Plus, it hardly every rains. Routinely produces the best American climbers. There's several "scenes." It's not too hard. Not too easy. The bullet points go on and on.
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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Apr 30, 2012 - 08:29pm PT
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the parts of Palestine shelled by israel has some good buildering
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gonamok
climber
dont make me come over there
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Is whitney portal in lone pine? If it is youre only 95,000 people shy of another contender.
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Keystone, SD is only about 99,000 shy of making the list.
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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just don't get too technical with the definitions, because it would be hard to upstage living in New Paltz, New York (pop. 14,000)...miles of side-by-side Gunks climbs at every level of difficulty, great ski areas, and great ice climbing...
in the winter you can often do all three sports each day; ski in the morning, rock climb in the afternoon sun, and ice climb frozen waterfalls after dinner
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steve shea
climber
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The Chamonix metroplex. Les Houches to La L'avanche or even Col d Montet. It's in the city, high rise condos, served by train or bus but you can walk everywhere. You can climb right out of the city to the summit of Mt Blanc, descend to the Italian side, Entreve/Courmayeur and take a bus back to Chamonix. Pretty citified
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andy@climbingmoab
Big Wall climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Cape Town disqualifies New Paltz - Table Mountain is like a more extensive version of the Gunks with routes over 10 pitches long and a sea view. After doing a long route take a cable car down to a winery. Really tough to beat.
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Gunkie
Trad climber
East Coast US
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A lot of the stuff mentioned is way outside of the target city's footprint. This should be a discussion on stuff found within a specific city's tax footprint.
Rio sounds nice. Will be going back to Tokyo this summer and probably Melbourne AU and Buenos Aries AR in the near future. I'll certainly be in Amsterdam in September. I know that Tokyo holds little in terms of climbing aside from buildering. How about the other locations (not holding my breath on Amsterdam)? Anyone have any beta? Thx.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - May 1, 2012 - 09:59am PT
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BA is in the middle of the pampas and has absolutely no climbing aside from buildering.
A better option is to take tango lessons.
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steve shea
climber
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OK North Conway or Franconia or Cortina or Lienz or Kals
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - May 1, 2012 - 10:03am PT
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Steve, 100,000 minimum population criteria. Still raining in Rio but supposed to be better tomorrow, my last day.
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steve shea
climber
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Jim,100,000 pop? I guess Rio, how's the food? Cham may even have a 100K by now.
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ducha
Trad climber
rio de janeiro
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hi folks,
Rio de Janeiro is a city of 16 million people. you arrive in the crags and walls in 15 minutes, by urban bus or bike. we have everything here: Sport, multi-pitch (from two to 12 pitches), boulder, aid, chims and a little bit of trad.
INTO the city. 350 routes only in the Urca neighborhood, plus Tijuca National Park. In the summer, when too hot, we sport climb into the forest.
One hour from Rio there is Serra dos Órgãos National park, where Dedo de Deus is located (google image for Dedo de Deus and have a look yourself).s
3 hours from Rio there is Tres Picos Provincial Park with routes 'til 17 pitches of the best granite.
I agree with Jim.
Valeu,
Ducha
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