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If You’re New Here: Get Your Climb on in Central Oregon This Fall

Read on to get five ideas for getting started with Central Oregon’s climbing community
Avatar photo by K.M. Collins

Are you new to town and looking for some vertical rock wall-ups? Jugs, crimps, lay backs, and sit starts, oh my! Central Oregon is chalk-full of indoor and outdoor bouldering, sport and traditional climbing. World class basalt (splitter cracks and shredder lava rock), welded ash tuff and some of the best manufactured indoor walls that […]

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Swarming Smith Rock

Finding solutions to the growing number of park visitors
Russ Axon

If Central Oregonians were to compile a list of complaints about living here, it’d probably be a short list. But it’s a safe guess what the number one problem would be: too many people are coming here. Nowhere is this more apparent than at the state parks around the area—and the park hit the hardest […]

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