Description:

This east facing venue is one of the furthest sectors away from parking. However, it gets sun first thing in the morning and it is a great cliff for early starts on cooler mornings. It offers a good range of grades and wide variety of climbing techniques are encountered. This cliff line has a small developed lower wall with 5 moderate routes just as the trail leaves the creek drainage. A faint trail then heads uphill (climbers right) to the much taller and wider upper wall where you will find another 26 established routes. One of the older venues at Moose Mountain the sector witnessed some significant new route activity the past few years. With seven new routes found on the upper wall and five more on the previously undeveloped lower wall. All but one of these newer routes were established in the busy 2017 season. Most of the new lines are from Andy Genereux filling in the alphabet so too speak over some of the better rock available on the upper cliff line. With a fine grouping of moderate warm up pitches on the newly developed lower wall the attraction to come climbing here has improved substantially.

Directions / Travel Info:

Generally there are no crowds due to the extra 30-40 minutes of travel time but the climbing on offer is well worth the extra effort to get there. continue west over the big hill on the access road. This takes 30-35 minutes by bicycle from Ing Mine Parking to reach the compressor station below the Moose Mountain Ice Caves. Located on the former parking lot before the road was closed to public vehicle access over twenty years ago. On the far side of the big hill continue straight for another 500m to reach the compressor station. Skirt the compressor station to the left (south side).
Stash your bikes and take a faint trail about halfway along the retaining wall on the south side that drops south down a small hill then crosses southward over the Canyon Creek drainage. On the far bank a side drainage joins Canyon Creek. Take this side drainage up hill for ten minutes to reach Spider Brook and Morning Side crags.