Gotta Love the Highway

If you can get past the traffic running 10 feet away from the belay, climbing on the highway can be really good. Roadside Attraction and Candy Land are my two favorite places to climb off the road, and I was delighted to find both of them climbable.

Lynn Rappelling Down Roadside Attraction

 

Outside of being a super fun climb, the cool thing about Roadside Attraction is you can literally walk across the road, be in the car and driving within five minutes. So thats what we did.

Lynn Leading the First Pitch of Candy Land.

 

The first pitch of Candy land is pretty lean towards the top, so we climbed way left and then walked up on the bench to the second pitch. Again the top outs were pretty spicy with lots of rock and water. But still super fun climbing, and well worth a day out. We got four stellar pitches in with minimal postholing on a beautiful day.

Candy Land

 

Obligatory Top Out Shot

 

Road Side Attraction

I think the best time to climb on the highway is about noon, on a weekday. That way you can wail away all you want and not have to worry about taking out the cars below you with rocks and chunks of ice. Roadside was in marvelous conditions. I found myself staring and gooey ice, with a nice baby blue color, and hardly a speck of snow on my line. I went up about where GeorgeAnne is Rappelling down....it was dreamy!

GeorgeAnne Rappelling Down Roadside Attraction