help i need some places to climb near bowling green

Post by **adam.quinton** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 5:48 am

I have done a little climbing at RRG but i dont know or anything closer to bowling green that i could top rope with some friends that are very new to the sport. I really dont want to take them out to RRG bc this will be there first climb and i want somthing easyer for them. if you know of anywere please give me a reply thanks

Post by **Izzy** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:33 am

If you're going to make any kind of drive at all then just go to the red. There's plenty of really easy stuff to be found, try practice wall in Muir Valley.

Post by **Ascentionist** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:10 pm

I don't know much about details for western kentucky climbing but here are some areas: Pilot Rock, Dismal Rock, Pennyrile State Forest, Clifty Hollow...I know there are more areas and there are people who know more about them than me.

Ignore ignorant responses which just state "Go to the Red." Only you know what your needs are and if Bowling Green works for you then just do what you got to do.

I lived 10 minutes from the Red most of my life, and when I first started climbing and asked "local" climbers what were good beginner routes the most common response I got was: "Go to the New". That's just idiocy at work.

Tap into the Western KY climbing scene and I am sure there are folks that'll help you find your way around.

Post by **Ascentionist** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:15 pm

There is some climbing near (or over) the TN state line south of Hopkinsville. Clarksville Bluffs? Something like that. Went looking for it once but couldn't find the area. Have never been back to Hop-town.

Post by **der uber** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:20 pm

I really dont want to take them out to RRG bc this will be there first climb and i want somthing easyer for them

I'm sure you can find a mall nearby that has some steps, or maybe an escalator. If they can send that, try putting them on a ladder.

Post by **jordancolburn** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 1:45 am

Ascentionist wrote:There is some climbing near (or over) the TN state line south of Hopkinsville. Clarksville Bluffs? Something like that. Went looking for it once but couldn't find the area. Have never been back to Hop-town.

Kings Bluffs outside of clarksville maybe? Its pretty nice, but a little far from BG.

Post by **ynp1** » Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:14 pm

kings bluff, a little over an hour from BG. dixie cragger has it in it. but you do not need a guide book to climb there. all the climbs are marked

Post by **jordancolburn** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:17 am

not much in the way of toproping though at kings, lots of easy short(around 3 bolt) 5.7's and 8's though.

Post by **ynp1** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 2:57 pm

why tr? and you can tr any climb there you just have to bushwack across the top of the cliff line. like you would any where

Post by **jordancolburn** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 4:27 pm

thats what the guy posted he said he was looking for, personally i thought a lot of the leads were pretty easy, and this was when i was first starting, so i would say just go for it.