Fun, but short morning of cragging at the Mt. Baldy crag. Raff K. only gave me beta on this nice little crag about a week ago. I did find some good information on this area on rockclimbing.com
Karen is feeling pretty rough with her pregnancy, so I had only planned on a half day of cragging with Pat and his wife Susie, but our morning (Sunday June 9) was cut short with rain that arrived earlier than forecasted. This crag is close to Calgary and has a short approach. Not many routes, but they are well identified since the bottom of each route has a plaque indicating name, length and grade. The routes are well equipped with good spacing and placement of bolts and double rings on the top anchors. We only climbed a few 5.6 and 5.7 routes, but they felt much easy than the quoted grade. We were about to hop on a few 5.9’s and an easy looking 5.10a, when we were hit hard by rain. Our last route was a three “pitch” 5.7 route, Cedar City. Second pitch was a funny short pitch that wasn’t really climbing and had a cable handrail, the upper section of the last pitch was fun. Definitely will hit this crag after work soon and try the stiffer routes.
