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- Subject: Climbing in Kansas !
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 13:32:25 -0600
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- > Subject: Climbing in Kansas
- > Rob_Prior@mindlink.bc.ca (Rob Prior) writes :
- >
- > I know, I know... Kansas isn't the most mountainous part of the U.S., but I
- > didn't pick the destination...
- >
- > I was wondering if there is anything in Witchita Kansas that is taller than a
- > cornstalk that's worth climbing... I'll be there in May for about 2 weeks and
- > will probably have some time on my hands...
-
- Welcome to hell ! I lived withing spitting distance of Wichita for most of
- about 20 years (3 years past graduating college). I finally escaped. You can
- expect high winds almost every day of the year and nothing to disturb the natural
- beauty of a state that exists in only one dimension (flat).
-
- As for climbing, I've heard that there is some pretty decent stuff located in
- the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma (Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge). This is located
- SW of Oklahoma City. I think about 4 hour drive from Wichita).
-
- Look for a guidebook called "ON THE ROCKS II" written by (I believe) Duane Raleigh (of Climbing
- Magazine's Equipment department). You might be able to find a copy of this at either
- the Mountain High store in Wichita (around Douglas and Rock Road) or at the climbing
- store in Oklahoma City (don't know the name or the location). I've never climbed
- there but I hear it isn't too bad.
-
- There's a climbing gym in Ok City and an actual climbing store but I don't know the names.
- There's also a store called Backwoods in Ok City that you might be able to get some
- additional information from : Ph # 918-751-7376
-
- The local newsletter is put together by a guy in Tulsa named Jeff Beene. The
- newsletter has a phone number (918-250-1397). You might be able to find some
- additional info through that channel.
-
- As for climbing in Wichita, peruse your back issues of Climbing Magazine. About
- two years ago, there was a picture of the Heiferstoisser Traverse...actually about
- a guy who put up a climbing wall inside of a silo on his farm. That's about the
- limit of the Kansas climbing.
-
- Good luck.
-
- G.
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