Smugglers Notch Granite Climbing
The approach times very greatly by snow conditions.
Smugglers notch granite climbing. Smuggs offers four season family vacation experiences unlike any other. The area can either be very busy or totally empty it s safe to count on a small crowd though. Getting to easy gully from the stone hut for example can take 35 minutes or well over an hour depending on how much snow has come in and if the trail has been beaten in. The main parking lot in the notch offers a great view of this impressive section of rock.
Smugglers notch resort s climbing adventures include instruction and use of a 30 foot outdoor climbing wall a via ferrata and high and low ropes courses. Expect this for most climbs. Voted 1 overall ski resort in the east learn why we re america s family resort. Description if you enjoy being gawked at by tourists this is the place to climb.
Even more popular than the cliffs and perhaps even more popular than the ice are the smuggler s notch boulders. Often referred to as smuggs or the notch by locals it is comprised of climbing along the closed portion of route 108 between jeffersonville in the north and stowe in the south smuggler s notch is a gem of new england climbing. Smugglers notch also popular to skiers and ice climbers is vermont s alpine training ground. What others are saying climb a lot of ice meet cool people and be merry.
Smugglers notch resort vermont summer vacations and lodging the best vacation value for family fun anywhere. The notch as it is lovingly referred to is also full of roadside boulders that have fallen from the jagged cliffs lining either side of the road. Some featured in the now out of print new england bouldering guidebook here s a taste of what smuggs has to offer pebble wrestlers. The notch named for the narrow pass through the green mountains serves up climbing drive thru style with many of the boulders right by the road.
It s big steep and has huge roofs near the top. The smuggs ice bash is managed by petra cliffs climbing center and mountaineering school. At the heart of the burlington northern vermont and lake champlain region climbing community since 2000. Best known as a winter destination for skiing and ice climbing smugglers notch makes a lesser trafficked and cooler temperature climbing spot during the sometimes oppressive new england summers.