Glacial Erratics

A typically brief spurt of nicely mild weather gave Sabrina and I a chance to go walkies amongst some nice icy cliffs.    (32E)

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To the southwest of Bloomington the area's limestone karst gives way to sandstone hills. Near the town of Shoals the White River passes through these hills, creating the occasional cliff-line.    (32G)

Several years ago Shoals was a fairly good place to do a little climbing. Nothing great, but given the lame offerings of Indiana, pretty good. Over time each of these regions fell out of favor. A visit to the most recently popular place, known as Hindostan, results in the occasional tire slash.    (32H)

So people don't go there much anymore.    (32I)

The Bluffs of Beaver Bend are on a parcel of Nature Conservancy land managed by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. We had spied it the previous Saturday during a Valentines Day drive. It's a lovely place, but I had ulterior motives: I wanted to know if there's any climbing there.    (32J)

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Climbing on DNR land is big unknown for me. Anyone know?    (32L)

We took along the camera to get pictures of what was there, for later reference and because we missed having when we were there prior. The whole set is linked from Shoals200402Contents.    (32M)

Access issues abound with climbing around Shoals. Some of that info, along with pictures pulled in from the above collection at ClimbShoals.    (32N)

We also met ShoalsLlama and a thing we think is TheDeadFox.    (32O)