Climbing guide Nick Wilkes gives us his top rock climbing tips for beginners.
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South Pointe
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Taft
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Community Rowing Club • 5.3 mi
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Skydive Lake Tahoe
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Fontana
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Groupon Guide
Five Tips for the Beginner Rock Climber
Midwesterners who dream of scaling mountains are largely out of luck. Prairies and plains are the region’s predominant geological features, and neither makes for the best rock climbing. But there’s one glaring exception to all that flatness: Wisconsin’s Devil’s Lake State Park, where rocky outcroppings and quartzite cliffs rise hundreds of feet above the glassy waters of Devil’s Lake.
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