New Climbing area in Louisville

[p0bray01]

Hey I was wondering if anyone who lived in the louisville area knew if the area by Mellwood Ave of I-64 was open to climb? If so what type of routes are there?

THANKS!

[hamsco]

The Limestone along Mellwood is on private property. It also is really shitty rock.
The buttress at the end is on Federal property (Veterens Adm.) and the rock going west belongs to the Apartments located above.

[hamsco]

And the wall behind the tennis/soccer center is (was?) posted no Climbing.
Crankmass has a climbing story about that wall. Perhaps he might share it?

[KD]

that area isn't "new." i learned to rappell and use jumars there back when i was caving. quest had an "on-belay club" there that practiced 2 times a week - this predated indoor climbing in louisville - i guess it was about 1985 or so. the landowners used to not care much about climbing until there were lots of accidents and - if i remember correctly a lawsuit. hamsco it right about the shitty rock there.

[p0bray01]

hmmm I thought it might have been private property becuse of the houses on top. Thanks! I was just curious. Damn for once I thought I could get away some climbing that I did not have to drive a couple hours to the gorge. OH WELL!

The gorge reigns supreme

THANKS!

[KD]

there were some slabs that were pretty fun st climb on on hwy 111 over in harrison co. in. they are behind ceasars on a steep hill along the road going up. when i was a teenager we used to rappell on them and try to scramble to the top - it was pretty fun. back in 94 when we had the hard rains -a landslide covered the road so the hwy dept. bulldozed the mud and blasted the slabs pretty badly. cherokee pk has some greasy ol' choss to boulder on - i found a spring-cave entrance in a large sinkhole behind homedepot on hurstborne ln a few years back. one or two short probs there on greasy dolomite.

[kafish2]

im not sure if you all heard about the other new spot in lousiville... the rocksport bouldering wall slated to be done by the abs comp at the end of january... lets hope it gets finished by then but either way it has been started and is bound to be fun. exactly what rocksport was lacking.

[ElectricDisciple]

hmm... I've heard that Rob was going to build more walls...

everybody i asked about it said, "yeah, he said that like, three years ago"...

[kafish2]

it is actually started, and he has been saying it for five or ten years, but the difference here is that we already have some of the steel framing up

[Gaar]

I saw with my OWN eyes! Its being built.........AMAZING!

As to the place off 64 There are 2-3 bolted lines there 5.9's solid bolts just wear a chrome dome