Green Mountain: School Rock, Bremerton WA

Green mountain's "School Rock" is an area used by Olympic College Mountaineering classes, and has been for some time. It has some bolts at the top for anchoring the belayer during top-ropping. There are several class 4 or low class 5 routes of 60 feet or so. It is a little tricky finding the rock, however. I thought I would put directions here. Green Mountain is about 6 miles West of Bremerton. There is a trail head at Wild Cat Lake, but don't use that one. Continue on past Wild Cat Lake on Holly and take a left onto Tahuya Lake Road. In a couple of miles or so you will see the new Gold Creek Parking Lot of the left,just past Lake Tahuya. There is a trail on the N end of the parking lot that goes north to an abandon road that runs East-West alongside the north side of Gold Creek. An alternate way to get to this abandon road is to walk back (N) on Lake Tahuya Road to where it joins the road. Walk this road east less than a mile and look down into the river for a Gaging Station (that is on the USGS Topo). The trail is on the left roughly a quarter mile from the gaging station and is a grown over enough so you can miss it. There is another trail before it that immediately starts up slope. The trail you want starts level and is just a worn path into the bursh. It is located at 47 deg 33.327'N by 122 deg 48.331'W if you have a GPS or want to locate it on a topo map. If you come to some obvious car body parts on your left in the woods you went a little too far. The trail is a steep difficult, (other than the first few hundred feet) but fairly short trail (30 minutes to base of rocks). The rock is loose in places. I don't know who put the bolts in or how old they are. Climbing is dangerous and if you climb here you assume the inherent hazard and if you are injured you will have contributed to the problem with your own negligence.

Labels: Climbing, Green Mountain, School Rock