Ross Rocks these are the tallest cliffs i know of within 45 minutes of providence. There's a variety of climbs here. If you park at the boat ramp, there's a cliff immediately above the lot that has a couple of short cracks and a difficult face. The rest of the cliffs are to the right. Most of the cliffs see very little traffic and have a lot of moss and lichen on them. Killingly CT From Providence you take route 6 west. After crossing the CT bourder, stay right on Route 6 instead of getting on the Davis Lodge Turnpike. Continue west for almost 4 miles. Take a left onto East Frankin Street, there's a boat ramp sign. If you go too far you'll come to I-395. Turn around and it's the first road on your right. On East Frankin Street, go past the Furnace Brook State Park entrance and take a right onto Ross Road then a right onto a dirt road which ends at the boat ramp parking lot. Park on your right, the cliffs are on the west si Beta provided by randy hill. Ratings synced with Brian Phillip's guide to Ross Rocks (www.climbri.com). Above the parking lot there's a short cliff with couple of short cracks and a difficult face. Follow the trail to the left to reach the top. The trail to the right follows the base of the cliff to the other faces. 5.5 Just like the name, it's the first crack on the left 25' No crack 5.10 Face climb between the two cracks 25' No face 5.8 The right crack 25' No Crack 5.9 Face climb to the right of the second crack 25' No Face Around the corner from the parking lot cliff is a wall with a single leadable crack. 5.10 obviouse crack up the left side of this wall 35' No crack This is the second cliff in from the parking lot. The central face looks like a stack of overhanging blocks. 5.8 At the left edge of the blocks you'll see a dead tree sticking straight out of the cliff. This route tops out just to the right of the tree, the tree is suposed to be off route as you do the final mantel. 35' No Face 5.9 Climb the inside corner under the obvious roof. Traverse out under a second smaller roof, then up the inside corner to the highest point on the cliff. 50' No roofs and cracks The next cliff in has a huge jutting roof in the middle with a friction climb on the left and a couple of nice face climbs on the right. There's a big flat rock at the base to watch the action from. 5.7 Left face consists of row after row of 1/4 to 1/2 inch ledges. The crack along the right edge where it joins the right wall is off route. 40' No Face ..\images\99-john-rossrocks.jpg 5.7 There's at least two variations that climb up under the roof then top out to the right. 80' No roofs and cracks 5.9 To the right of the previous climb is a harder face climb to the top. This climb is left of the ledge with the two trees which are used to anchor the next two climbs. 80' No face 5.6 & 5.7 There's two obvious cracks that start out overhanging and then head up onto the face. Top rope from either of the two trees on the ledge. Lots of positive holds for good sustained climbing. 80' No cracks and face ..\images\99-rossrocks-lc-2.jpg if you walk further in, you'll come to the longest pitch, an easy 5.5 to 5.7 face that has a detached flake to the left and a gulley to the right that you can come down from. This is the only face that ices up in the winter. The inside corner usually gets some ice and in a really fat year with good snowpack the entire face may get some ice as seen in the picture to the right from 2003. 5.9 Climb the detached finger on the left. climb the face up to the detached block. You can traverse under the block and then 40' No Face ..\images\99-rossrocks-finger.jpg 5.6-7 There are multiple lines up the face. They tend to be slightly harder to the left with a couple of ledges to mantle up. A single 50 m rope barely makes it to the bottom. 90' No roofs and cracks NEI3 The inner corner behind the finger ices up in the winter. There were three line's there when we climbed it in March 0f 2001. The inner corner was fat at the base but was no linger climbable to the top, same for the next line over. There was also a line on the right side, which was too thin to bother dropping a rope on. 80' No face ..\images\01-rossrocks-ice1.jpg ? Gully around the corner to the right of the main wall. May ice up in the winter, sometimes used to climb down from the top in the summer. In March 2001 the only ice left was up the left wall of the gulley, the gulley itself had not filled in. depends No dirt and ice ..\images\01-rossrocks-ice2.jpg If you continue past the gulley, you'll come to even more cliffs. I don't know of anyone who has climbed these. They tend to be overgrown with lots of large blocks at the base, but there are some impossible looking roof problems... ? lots of possibilities depends No faces, cracks and roofs