Description
Carderock Past and Present: A Climbers Guide (2008 edition)
This historic site has long offered the best bouldering close in to the Nation's Capital and the guide offers route descriptions and difficulty of the main Carderock climbing, as well as information on less populated areas. Carderock is a unique natural resource located near the Nation's capital. It has a long history as a climbing area and today it offers the best local bouldering with easy access. Carderock's character is largely defined by its history, and this guide provides a historic perspective to climbing at Carderock.
This guide offers route descriptions and difficulty of the main Carderock climbing, as well as information on less populated areas. This guidebook intends to document the exploratory-and in recent years creative-spirit of climbers and mountaineers who have used the rocks along the Potomac River for decades. It is a guide to some of the newer routes as well as a partial record of the people who first actively climbed the area and named many routes.
