California · Rock climbing · Shaver Lake

Housekeeping

Housekeeping in California has 9 climbing routes on bouldering pads.

9 routes
V4 – V10
Bouldering

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Housekeeping is a bouldering area in the Sequoia-Kings Canyon Wilderness, inside Kings Canyon National Park in California. The National Park Service manages the land, and the area sits within designated wilderness. The climbing here is all bouldering, with nine routes spread across a range of grades from V4 to V10. The median grade is V6-, with Chocolate Bunny at V6- and King Air at V10 among the named routes. For a reference point, Amazon Face is a V4 and Freedom is a V5. Lake 11106 and Evolution Valley are both hikes about 0.3 miles away. Evolution Creek, a canoeing route, lies about 1.3 miles off, and North Lake Campground is roughly 6.7 miles away.

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