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// Rock climbing · California

Climbing at Lower Kern River Canyon

52 routes and boulders on 10 walls, 5.0–5.10c · boulders V1–V7. In California. When the rock grips hour by hour, topos and people to climb with, in the app.

Routes and boulders
52
Walls
10
Grades
5.0–5.10c · boulders V1–V7
Rock
Granodiorite
Style
Trad · Sport
Best season (estimated)
March–May · September–November
// The grades

What grades are there?

Routes by grade

From 5.0 to 5.10c. Half are between 5.6 and 5.9.

Boulders by grade

From V1 to V7. Half are between V2 and V6.

Each climb counts at its grade; ungraded ones are left out. In the app you can switch to French, UIAA, British or Font grades.

// The walls

Sun and shade

Walls face several ways: pick the sector for sun or shade at any hour.

North1 sectorNortheast0 sectorsEast2 sectorsSoutheast0 sectorsSouth2 sectorsSouthwest0 sectorsWest1 sectorNorthwest4 sectors

Estimated best season: March–May · September–November. Worked out from each wall's aspect and the latitude; the app fine-tunes it with what climbers log.

Friction ScoreHow the rock grips, hour by hour and wall by wall. In the app, for every crag on the map. See it in the app →ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE

// Walls

The 10 walls

ASPECT · GRADES · ROUTES
01Owl RockNW · 328° · 5.0–5.99 routes
02Lower Kern River Canyon BoulderingNW · 295° · V2–V78 boulders
03Lower Power stationW · 280° · 5.6–5.10c8 routes
04The MouthNW · 303° · 5.8–5.10c · boulders V77 routes and boulders
05The GymE · 94° · 5.5–5.10c4 routes
06Kern Canyon DomeS · 178° · 5.4–5.10c4 routes
07Roadside CragNW · 297° · 5.6–5.10b4 routes
08Kern Canyon MBCS · 172° · 5.93 routes
09The Rancheria BoulderN · 8° · V1–V33 boulders
10The S.S.OE · 71° · 5.5–5.92 routes

Route names, topos and approaches are in the app.

// Where it is

On the map

Bald Eagle PeakBoulder GulchBear Valley SpringsStirrup TanksLower Kern River CanyonCALIFORNIA · 4 CRAGS WITHIN 25 MIBoundaries © Natural Earth
// Nearby

Crags nearby

// The Friction Score for every crag

Climb more. Guess less.

When the rock grips, hour by hour and wall by wall; topos, your logbook and people to climb with. In your units (°F or °C) and your grades (YDS or French). The social side is free, always.

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