Cloudsplitter Mountain Guides

Happy 4th of July!

What more can we say about living and climbing here? More beautiful days in paradise...from a 1000' roped scramble up Giant' Mountain's Eagle Slide with Dave W., to hidden gems like the Tanager-Beam Me Up link-up (II 5.8+) on Chapel Pond Gully Cliff with Chris H: '3 star climbing w/ 5 star views.'

With the new guidebook- Adirondack Rock - the word is out and the 'Daks' are where it's at for those who wanna rock! With a select, personable staff of only AMGA certified guides/instructors, Cloudsplitter Mountain Guides can help you make the most of your Adirondack experience.

With the summer solstice come and gone already- it's safe to say that summer is here. In typical Adirondack fashion we've had it all- from surprisingly cool clear nights to a recent bout of warm days and afternoon thunderstorms. If you haven't picked up a copy of the new Adirondack Rock guidebook- you should. It's an impressive collection of pretty much ALL of the climbing on public lands in the Adirondack Park, with plenty of great photos and enough info to put together a tick list that could keep you occupied for years. And many of our guests do just that- from cruising the classic and popular 'intro' routes with first-time visitors to searching out the hidden gems and 'last great problems' with our regular guests.

Don't let summer pass you by without getting out for a climb with us here in the Adirondacks!

We're off to a great start this spring- with a continued trend of sunny clear days and cool nights. (Perhaps a little cooler than some years- but it keeps the rock dry and the bugs away- so I'm not complaining.) With the great weather and the cliffs to ourselves, we've had many beautiful days already this spring with guests from as far away as Utah and the UK joining us for the best in what my friend calls 'European style guiding'- day trips to some of the region's best single- and multi-pitch cliffs and evenings spent relaxing at comfortable lodges in our small mountain town. It's this combination of accessible and varied traditional climbing and small mountain town lifestyle that first brought us to the region as climbers, and convinced us to stay here as mountain guides.

But say you've already been here and cut your teeth on some of our classic multi-pitch rock and ice routes? Maybe you've already been into Wallface Mountain and climbed the Case Route or the Diagonal (one of the East's biggest wilderness cliffs) or already honed your mountaineering skills with an ascent & descent of Mount Colden's Trap Dyke or Giant's Eagle Slide? Then it's time to take those skills and experience to the bigger mountains. Washington State's North Cascades and Mt. Rainier are icons of our country's best alpine climbing and we have fond memories of climbing, sking and guiding there over the past decade. We'll be headed back again this summer (in collaboration with our friends at Alpine Endeavors out of the Gunks) for more alpine rock in NCNP and a Rainier summit climb in late July and early August. For more info and/or to register, check it out at alpineendeavors.com