This is a climbing area in New York just a couple hours north of New York City. The actual name for the place I believe is the Shawngunks but climbers refer to it as The Gunks. So this is a "trad" climbing only area, which means you have to place all you're own gear as you climb (alot more mentally exhausting and terrifying). We arrived on a fri afternoon and stayed through monday morning. We had absolutely beautiful weather, in fact we got sunburned. The climbing was a little different than what we are used to but not significantly. The gear placements were mostly in horizontal cracks as oposed to the more common veritcal. This wasn't a problem just something I had to keep reminding myself to look for since I was constantly looking for vertical cracks and not finding them and getting a bit nervous. We stayed mostly on easy stuff but had a blast with everything we climbed. We met lots of very nice ppl and fell in love with the town of New Paltz. The only downsides are that it's an 8 hour drive each way and you have to pay $15 a day to get access to the climbing area. By far the easiest and best approach though. One of the climing areas (The Trapps) has a cliff line of around 3 miles long and in the neighborhood of 500 climbs (most between 5.4 and 5.9)
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