This guidebook is of much historical interest: this is one of the original major climbing areas to be developed in the East. It also reflects a time (1964) when nuts were first being introduced to the American climbing scene. This guidebook also documents many climbs that were at the cutting edge of climbing at the time. Routes such as Unconquerable Crack and Vector were as difficult as nearly any being put up in their day.
I have kept the formatting of the guide to a minimum, reflecting its actual composition. The text is all verbatim: I have refrained from changing the maps, ratings, or first ascent credits.
This book is remains useful as a guidebook: it contains most of the popular lines at the cliff. Ratings have changed over the years; I suggest you look at my Connecticut Climbing page for a more modern take on the ratings. As in 1964, access remains a serious problem at this cliff. Please join the Ragged Mountain Foundation or the Access fund and help keep areas like this open to climbing.
Many thanks to John Reppy who gave me a copy of his guide and granted permission to place in on the internet. You are welcome to print out and use this guidebook as you wish but please don't make another online copy of this text - its copyright is retained by the authors.
Please send any questions or comments to John Peterson.