![]() ![]() “It’s really difficult for me to go there,” he says. The connection he formed with the granite palisades makes today’s sight hard to bear. It developed into a spiritual place for me.” I could center and focus completely, and lose everything else in the world. “I spent thousands and thousands of hours soloing ,” Callaghan says. Strand, a leading Quarry developer as well and a guidebook author, suffered health issues and, sadly, died in 2017. The climbs ranged from shorter ones such as Sticks & Stones (5.11b R), Reelin’ In the Fears (5.10 X), Footsy Quence II (5.9 R) and Bits and Pieces (5.11 R, drilled on lead), all with Strand to Black Flies Consume Jim Dunn (5.12+, bolted on lead), with Jimmie Dunn and some of the then-hardest multi-pitch routes in the Granite State, including the 11-pitch Benedictus/When I Paint My Masterpiece (5.11c, with sections of 5.9 R), freed by Callaghan, Bowen, and Tom Nonis in 1999. The motion was mind and body training for the many runout slabs of New Hampshire, where he would establish countless R and X-rated routes with his partner John Strand. He climbed there three to four times a week, losing himself in 30-plus minutes of continuous movement: up, down, and diagonally. The man-made granite atrium is just nine miles south of Downtown Crossing, and its thin faces and easy access made it the main crag for the coastal city.ĭuring the peak of the place’s popularity, in the days of leisure suits and disco, Callaghan spent most of his lunch breaks soloing on the walls. The Quincy Quarries, aka the “Q,” were once the heartbeat of the Boston climbing community. Callahan moved habitually, as he had long done on the dime edges and glassy walls of the Quincy Quarries. He swiftly “stuck his nose into it,” as Bowen later said in the documentary “Benedictus,” heading off into 20-plus feet of slick, runout 5.11b. #Quincy quarries free#This pitch was the farthest they’d gotten on their seven-year project to free and extend the route, and as Callaghan stared at the new terrain, classic smooth Cannon rock, he was unsure he’d find a stance to set the next bolt. The two were on pitch five of Benedictus (5.11c), on the 1000-foot face of Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire. ![]() ![]() Bolt kit in hand, he stepped above the anchor he’d sunk standing on the shoulders of Mark Bowen. #Quincy quarries full#Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+ ![]()
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