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Table of contents
- 1. Grand Canyon 53 in Cliff
- 2. Index by grade
1. Grand Canyon 53 routes in Cliff
- Summary:
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Escalade traditionnelle, Escalade sportive et Moulinette
description
A moderately high, long wall not far from the welcome area. The climbing is generally less than vertical to near vertical, and in most cases the cruxes of the climbs tend to come as the cliff rolls off at the top and the rock becomes less and less featured at that point.
Much of the cliff-top is accessible for setting top-ropes on the routes, with there being guide ropes & cabling along much of it to make it safer.
Limitations de l'accès
The climbing area is maintained by "Parc d'Escalade et de Randonnée de la Montagne D'Argent" (PERMA) -- primarily a climber's organisation. Daily access fee was $14 as of summer 2021, and yearly memberships ($70 as of 2021). Being affiliated with the Alpine Club of Canada, members of certain sections may climb for free upon presentation of their club membership but are still required to pay for on-site camping.
On weekends, there is generally someone there to collect the fees, during the week this is more often done on the honour system.
The site is open all year round with artificial ice falls created over the cliffs over the freezing winter months for Technical Ice Climbing.
A complete guidebook (including hand drawn reproductions, contributed by a local artist) is generally available at the hut on weekends. It has maps for access to the cliffs, and drawings of all the cliffs with routes marked on them. The current official guidebook is fully bilingual.
approche
Climb the stairs (or Little Beer) to the back and left of the welcome area, then follow the obvious trail up until it branches, taking the right branch (signed for Grand Canyon) and continue the hike up into the canyon.
Not more than 10 minutes from the welcome area,
Route | Grade | Style | Selected ascents | |||
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1 |
★★ Sloggo
At the far left (upper) end of the canyon, this large crack system starts by gently angling upwards as it traverses left, then goes to straight up, and finally curves back to the right. THis is, also, almost never climbed, and is totally covered in moss and dead leaves. It would need at least a moderate cleaning before being climbed. FA: Jean-Claude Neolet, 1998 | 5.5 | 16m | |||
2 |
★★ Le Castor Bricoleur
Starts out on a blocky crack that climbs up to a large ledge. From the ledge climb a left-facing corner with a crack at the back that then transitions to a right-facing corner with the same, widening as one climbs, crack at the back of it. FA: Jeane-Claude Neolet, 1998 | 5.7 | 22m | |||
3 |
★★ Invitation Mixte
A few meters right of "Le Castor Bricoleur" is a steeper thinner crack, with a bolt just at the sky line. Climb up the (initially blocky), but eventually thinning down to shallow fingers crack, which disappears at the bolt, then up the friction slab above (4 bolts) to the anchors. FA: Sylvain Vezina & Jean-Pierre Ferron, 1996 | 5.10b | 22m, 4 | |||
4 |
★ La Belle de Cadix
Starts behind a pair of trees, and ends just below a tree as well. Climb the bolt line over some thin holds for the grade. FA: Jean-Claude Neolet, 1996 | 5.7 | 14m, 4 | |||
5 | Y'a d'la Joie | 5.5 | 14m | |||
6 |
La Tactique du Gendarme
Looking for a set of three bolts angling up and leftwards, on an almost ramp-like area of rock. Needs gear for the upper section/finish. | 5.6 | 20m, 3 | |||
7 |
★ Madame la Marquise
Look for a pair of left-arching cracks at the top of the cliff -- this climb starts below and right of them. Climb the blocky crack to the left-arching crack and finish up and left through them. A bit run-out at the end. | 5.6 | 20m | |||
8 | ★ Frenesie | 5.9 | 15m, 2 | |||
9 | Last Call | 5.10d | 15m, 5 | |||
10 |
★★ Le Bogue de l'An 2000
While listed as a 40m climb in the guide, and it can be climbed as such, there is a 2-bolt anchor at the end of the interesting climbing at about 28m. The crack continues from there, but it is very dirty, mossy, and treed. | 5.9 | 28m | |||
11 | ★ Titanicomanie | 5.8 | 38m, 3 | |||
12 |
★ La Valse des Temps Modernes
A variant finish for Titanicomanie which makes the route sport the whole way. | 5.9 | 38m, 8 | |||
13 |
★★ Rav - 4
Starts below a low roof with orange rock below the roof. Climb up pulling the roof, to technical slab climbing above, with holds getting thinner as one finishes around the top of the steep section. After climbing to anchors, can then extend to share top/second pitch of "La Valse des Temps Modernes" (5.9) -- but the interesting climbing is done by then. About 38m to the top anchors. | 5.10b | 20m, 2, 10 | |||
14 | ★ La danse de l'Ours | 5.12a | 14m, 4 | |||
15 | Mephisto | 5.11d | 25m, 3 | |||
16 | ★★ Les Acrobates de l'Espace | 5.7 | 25m, 2 | |||
17 |
★★ Les Funambules du Ciel
FA: Jean-Claude Neolet, 1998 | 5.7 | 25m | |||
18 |
★★★ Les Heros de la Voltige
FA: Jean-Claude Neolet, 1998 | 5.7 | 24m | |||
19 |
★★ Cinquante Roc - Coeurs
FA: Jean-Claude Neolet & Laurent Cloutier, 1998 | 5.9 | 40m | |||
20 |
★★ Souris Chauve
FA: Gaétan Castilloux, 1996 | 5.10b | 34m, 9 | |||
21 |
★ Enfin Seche
Rarely dry, but good climbing when it is. Up a wet section on bolts to blocky rock and a short crack section to (like everything else in the Grand Canyon) a slabby finish. | 5.10a | 34m, 9 | |||
22 |
★ Super Crackpot
As if summer 2021 Bolt 3 is missing, leaving things a bit runout, and this might just be the crux. | 5.8 | 35m, 5 | |||
23 |
★ La Cha-cha des Félins
The bolt line to the left of the obvious block of rock coming out of the wall. FA: Jean-Claude Néolet, 1998 | 5.9 | 28m, 7 | |||
24 |
Garantie Prolongee
Just right of La Cha-cha des Félins, start by the distinct off-width crack leading up to a line of bolts just right of where the crack ends. This climb is bolted except for the starting crack, which can be protected with a high stick clip. The crux is pulling the bulge about 2/3 up the climb. | 5.10a | 30m, 6 | |||
25 |
La Voie de Pooh
Start at the same wide crack as Garantie Prolonge, but instead head up and right along rising edges and traverses, across La Vente Etiquette Rouge, Piglet, and finally turning up and slightly left to finish up the upper section of Le Sacre du Printemps. Gear for the traverse is tricky to spot in advance, and sometimes to place, but is all there. (1 bolt borrowed from Piglet.) Lower-off is a bit more then 30m from the high anchor. | 5.7 | 40m, 2 | |||
26 | La Vente Etiquette Rouge | 5.11a | 30m, 5 | |||
27 |
★ Piglet
Head up on vertical rock for the first bolts, then onto an upward-right slanting ramp. After leaving the ramp the climb finishes on slab. FA: Jose Dionisio, 1997 | 5.9 | 25m, 7 | |||
28 |
Le Sacre du Printemps
High anchor at top is about a 32m lower. It may be possible to step right to the anchor for Crocodile and lower-off with a 60m. (From the top anchor, a 60m rope and rope stretch may get you to the ground, depending on amount of rope stretch.) | 5.9 | 32m, 1 | |||
29 |
★ Crocodile
Climb leftwards up blocky rock to a steep left-angling widish crack. Pull through, then finish with the usual Grand Canyon thin moves at the top (bolts). | 5.9 | 25m, 3 | |||
30 | ★★ Mauvaise Herbe | 5.10c | 25m, 5 | |||
31 |
★★ Combustion Lente
Though not visible from the bottom, the climb continues up for a second pitch. Look for some blocky rock that leads up into a blocky crack, and eventually a left-facing corner with a crack in the back. Start at the base of this.
Descent: walk-off, or lower-off the cedar (may need to bring leaver-gear, no fixed anchor/gear on tree.) Usually only the first pitch is climbed, often stopping short at the anchor to the left, before the slab. The 2nd pitch is a bit dirty, lichen-covered, with occasional smatterings of pine needles, but is good climbing after the initial really dirty bit. FA: Michel Ouellet, 1996 | 5.8 | 65m, 2, 4 | |||
32 |
★ Illusion
While listed in the guide as "mixte" (mixed, suggesting that gear is needed in some parts, but bolts are used in others), this really climbs as a sport climb. There is no point on the lead where you need to place gear. | 5.9 | 25m, 8 | |||
33 | ★★ Pathfinder | 5.10a | 25m, 8 | |||
34 |
★ Lucky Luke
Starts just left of the crack "Beaujolais Nouveau" and follows the bolt line to the obvious crack. The second to last bolt is often pretty loose because of people falling on it. FA: Gaetan Castilloux, 1996 | 5.10b | 24m, 10 | |||
35 |
★★ Beaujolais Nouveau
Look for a right-facing corner at the top of the cliff. This climb starts below it. Climb up easy going to a single bolt, then follow the zig-zag crack to the obvious right-facing corner in the skyline. Climb up the corner to the slab above, and anchors. | 5.8 | 20m, 1 | |||
36 |
★ Le "Speech" de Gaétan
Obvious bolted line between the two cracks of Beaujolais Nouveau and Chute LIbre. FA: Simon Brunet & Gaétan Castilloux, 1998 | 5.8 | 20m, 6 | |||
37 |
★★ Chute Libre
Left facing crack with good protection throughout. A bit run-out after the only bolt near the top. FA: Simon Brunet & Olivier Sofer, 1996 | 5.8 | 20m, 1 | |||
38 |
★★ Les Petits Chiens "Zigneurs"
Thin cracks and slab. | 5.11c | 20m, 4 | |||
39 |
Le Tailleur de Pierre
Even thinner. Rarely climbed, and usually in need of a rebrushing. FA: Martin Castilloux & Gaetan Castilloux, 1999 | 5.12c | 22m, 6 | |||
40 |
★★ Triplets
Climb starts up a block corner above a small ledge about a foot above the ground, then branches to an obvious crack heading up and left from the corner. When this peters out, step left to a second crack in the upper part of the climb. Follow this until it disappears (last gear) then run it out up the slab to the anchors. Guide indicates two bolts -- but they don't exist (as of June 2014). Finish is a bit run-out above last piece. FA: Gaetan Castilloux, 1996 | 5.7 | 22m | |||
41 |
La Motte
Climb the same block corner above the small ledge that Triplets starts up, but continue up the corner and rightwards towards a shared anchor. | 5.4 | 15m | |||
42 |
★★ Le Bonhomme Sept-Heures
Climb the blocky face right of "La Motte" past one block to the shared anchor. | 5.4 | 15m | |||
43 |
★ Le Retour des Loups-Garous
Climb the bolted face right of the blocky corner through some thin slab to the shared anchor. Or continue on to the higher anchor (2 more bolts) for some more lovely friction climbing. 9 bolts / 25m for longer variant. FA: Laurent Cloutier & Jean-Claude Neolet, 1998 | 5.8 | 20m, 6 | |||
44 |
★★ Le Marchand de Sable
FA: Jean-Claude Neolet & Lucie Laforest, 1997 | 5.5 | 16m, 1 | |||
45 | ★ Les Trolls | 5.4 | 15m, 3 | |||
46 | Les Farfadets | 5.4 | 15m, 2 | |||
47 |
★ Kenneth le Grand Inquisiteur
Not great gear. FA: Lucie Laforest & Jean-Claude Neolet, 1998 | 5.4 PG | 12m, 1 | |||
48 |
Les Sorcieres du Bureau Ovale
It shares anchors with "Kenneth le Grand Inquisiteur". FA: Jean-Claude Neolet, 1998 | 5.5 | 12m | |||
49 |
★ Bill le Crapaud
First gear is high, but takes a few decent placements. FA: Lucie Laforest et Jean-Claude Neolet, 1998 | 5.3 | 12m | |||
50 |
Planete Halloween
FA: Jean-Claude Neolet, 1998 | 5.4 | 12m | |||
51 |
L'Apprenti Sorcier
FA: Lucie Laforest et Jean-Claude Neolet, 1998 | 5.4 | 12m | |||
52 |
Fantomas
FA: Jean-Claude Neolet, 1998 | 5.6 | 12m | |||
53 |
★★ Litige / Imbroglio
This climb is above the lower (right) end of the main Grand Canyon wall. From the bottom of the canyon, hike along the small trail rightwards, until it doubles-back (with fixed rope) up some 3rd class slab, as you would if you were going to set top-ropes for the main Grand Canyon walls. As you finish the roped slab, and come out near the top of the first climbs, look right (down into canyon is left) and you will see a bolted anchor, and bolts heading up from there. This is where the climb starts.
Enjoy the view. Descent: rappel the route, but if rappelling on a 60m rope, use the anchors directly below the crack of the 2nd pitch, rather then the anchors used during the ascent (climber's right of the crack/corner). Else, you may run out of rope getting to the base. | 5.9 | 58m, 2, 12 |