Sullivan Lake
Sullivan Lake is a beautiful area located about a half hour drive south west of the main Calabogie boulder area. In addition to the great climbing, it has amazing camping right on the lake, with great swimming access and a communal canoe and rowboat. It is well worth it to hike in a tent and supplies to spend a weekend camping.
It has around 70 established problems and features some of the largest boulders you will ever see. Large enough that there are also a handful of sport and trad routes.
Guide
You can download the mini PDF guide from the link below. It has been designed to be viewed on your phone.
Sullivan Lake Bouldering Mini Guide
Note
All credit to the aforementioned guide for this data.
Routes
| Name | Grade ↓ | Star rating | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Welcome Wall 1 | V0 | ⭐ | Sit start with hands in crack and climb straight up the crack feature using holds on either side. |
| Welcome Wall 2 | V0 | ⭐⭐ | Start compressing the wide slab, paste a foot, pop to the good ledge and mantle up. If you don't have the reach to span the slab,
you can use a dish for the left hand. More fun the shorter you are! |
| Baby Bear | V0- | - | Climb the short left side of the slab. |
| Easy slab | V0- | ⭐ | Stand start with hands in crack. |
| Mines of Moria | V0- | - | Walk about 15 feet into the chimney and climb up the slab on good edges. Also the way down from the top of this boulder. |
| Troll Toll | V0- | - | Sit start matched on the right side of the sloping lip. Mantle up. |
| Welcome Wall 3 | V0- | - | Start on opposing side pulls on the right arête. Climb up and right to top out. |
| Compression Project | Project | - | Sit start in the vertical crack on the left side of the prow. Compress your way up the prow. |
| Edge of Insanity Project | Project | - | Start with hands matched in the horizontal seam. Get to the lip. There are likely also a couple of variations starting here and
traversing left, or starting to the left and traversing into it. |
| Papa Bear Project | Project | - | Climb the right side of the slab to the apex, eliminating the holds of mama bear. |
| Project | Project | - | Sit start to the left of Rowboats and figure out how to climb up. |
| The Arête Project | Project | - | A bolt has been placed as a directional so this can be worked as a toprope project. It's hard. Like really hard. |