Stoney Point (California)

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caption = Stoney Point
location= Chatsworth Park North, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California
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designated_lahcm = November 20, 1974Citation | last = Los Angeles Department of City Planning | year = 2007 | date = September 7, 2007 | title = Historic - Cultural Monuments (HCM) Listing: City Declared Monuments | place = | publisher = City of Los Angeles | edition = | url =http://www.cityprojectca.org/ourwork/documents/HCMDatabase090707.pdf | accessdate = 2008-05-29 ]
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governing_body = City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks

Stoney Point, also known as the Stoney Point Outcroppings, is a city park near the north end of Topanga Canyon Boulevard (State Route 27) in Chatsworth, California (part of the city of Los Angeles). It is famous with rock climbers because of its large boulders, which afford many opportunities to practice the sport of bouldering, and many routes of different levels of difficulty have been developed. The top of the rock formation offers excellent views of Chatsworth and the entire San Fernando Valley.

It was thesite of an ancient Indian village and was used as a marker by the Southern Pacific Railroad during construction of the railroad through the Santa Susana Mountains. It is also said to have been used as a hideout by the outlaw Tiburcio Vasquez in the 1870s.cite book|author=Judson Grenier (Editor-in-chief)|title=A Guide to Historic Places in Los Angeles County, p. 99|publisher=Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co.|date=1978|isbn=0840375018]

Climbing development began at Stoney Point in the 1930s when it was discovered by young climbers then active in the Sierra Club. In the '50s and '60s pioneering rock-climbers Royal Robbins and Yvon Chouinard learned to climb at Stoney Point.From 1959 to 1995 one of Americas most accomplished climbers Bob Kamps was a regular to be seen on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. He was always available to teach anyone his art, as was another monumental free-solo climber Michael Reardon.

In the '70s the Stonemasters (a local group of climbers determined to put their own stamp on the sport of rock climbing) also frequented Stoney Point.

Stoney Point has a long history of association with rock climbing and bouldering yet there are few first ascents recorded. This may be because it is viewed as a practice area and therefore not significant from a first ascent point of view.

ee also

*List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in the San Fernando Valley

References

External links

* [http://www.sowr.com/index.html Stoney Point website]