Marble Mountains / Klamath Limestone
Cecilville / Forks of Salmon (Siskiyou County) · near Cecilville · Shasta Cascade
Rock Climbing
At a glance
- Skill level
- intermediate
- Grade range
- 5.8 to 5.13 (area-wide)
- Best season
- Late spring through fall (remote, snowbound in winter)
Worth knowing
- Good for a first timer
- No
Rock Climbing detail
- Climb types
- sport · trad
- Rock type
- Limestone & quartzite
- Route count
- Several hundred routes across multiple crags
- Signature routes
- Marble Caves · Land of the Lost · Cecilville Bluffs
- Intl tip
- California's quiet limestone frontier - hundreds of routes but a long, remote drive with no services and thin documentation. Verify current access and road conditions with a Redding or Etna shop before you go, and come fully self-sufficient. Summer/fall only.
The guide
The Marble Mountains and the surrounding Klamath limestone are far northern California's hidden climbing frontier - a substanti…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Marble Mountains / Klamath Limestone — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 41.13, -123.22