Climbing at Rumney, New Hampshire

Rumney is a major trip for Ithaca outdoorspeople, but one that seems to happen about once a year. It's almost six hours from Ithaca, but is a sport-climber's paradise -- the nearest to Ithaca for this outdoor form of pumpy gym-style climbing. Though many climbers are dedicated to climbing as one part of a holistic grab-bag of mountaineering techniques, sometimes it's just fun to go and focus on the climbing and only the climbing.

Rumney (eponymously named after the tiny hamlet it is near) is on the border of the White Mountain National Forest, and not far from a number of trails that connect to hundreds of miles of foot paths threading this area, including the Presidential Peaks, the tallest mountains in the northeastern U.S. So cross-disciplinary trips are possible here, with both hiking and rock climbing components.

Climbs are found on about a dozen cliffs on the southern side of Rattlesnake Mountain, all within a two mile extent.

Photos from Previous Trips

• Fall Break 2006
• Fall Break 2005

Map of the Rumney area

-- DonBarry - 08 Jun 2006