I am moving to OK for a period of about five months. I will be in Lawton OK. what climbing is withing about 5-6 hours of there? thanks

-- jason bradley nicholson (jbnicho1@unity.ncsu.edu), March 23, 1998

Answers

You won't have to go very far to get some high quality rock! The Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge (just north of Lawton) has some great climbing on granite. There are numerous 1-4 pitch routes. Elk Mountain has some friction climbing and some nearby cracks. The Narrows has the longer routes. Plus there's some great bouldering.

Quartz Mountain (just north of Altus and an hour or so to the west of Lawton) is a fantastic area. There are a bunch of classic 2 pitch routes on superb granite. 5.9 to 5.10 cassics include S-Wall, Last of the Good Guys, Amazon Women and some harder ones as well. The granite is reminiscant of J-Tree.

Have fun. You will be very pleasantly surprised with the quality and variety of OK climbing. When I lived in Texas, I would drive 9 hrs on weekends to climb at Quartz Mountain. There are some other areas as well......

Mongo

-- Mongo (rcallender@virginia.edu), April 02, 1998.