| Summary | None |
| Owner | MITOC Gallery Administrator |
| Creation Date | 2012-06-20 22:18:45 UTC-0400 |
| Description | Garfield Cliff
Eric Gilbertson and Dave Custer 5.18-5.20 This is probably one of the most remote cliffs you can find in the white mountains. The easiest approach is 8 miles by trail plus a mile of bushwacking into the middle of the Pemi Wilderness. The cliff isn’t visible from any road, but you can see it from the top of Franconia ridge. We hiked in to 13 falls campsite Friday night and Saturday morning bushwacked the remaining mile to the base of this enormous cliff on the southwest side of Mt Garfield. The cliff is about 400ft tall in the middle and a quarter mile wide. It’s like Cathedral ledge but with no other people, no guidebook, and a bit more difficult approach. We climbed a few moderate two-pitch routes Saturday on the right side of the cliff, passing an old 1970s-era piton on the way. We camped out at the base and on Sunday climbed a harder 4-pitch route in the middle of the cliff. No pitons in the cliff this time. If you decide to venture in there definitely stay on the SE-angled ridge for the bushwack up from 13 falls. There’s very little undergrowth and the bushwacking is much more pleasant than the spruce forest on the west side of the ridge. |