Located centrally in New Hampshire lies the renowned town of Rumney, a rock-climbing spot famous throughout the country.  Known as one of the finest spots for climbing on the east coast, Rumney is home to a multitude of faces, arêtes and chimneys.  As part of the White Mountains, it is in a range that covers much of New Hampshire in a combination of schist and granite rock.  Shaping between 125 and 100 million years ago, the range took form through a combination of magma intrusions and glaciation. 

At the very beginning of the region, lava poured out in layers, shortly after followed by the edge of a sea, bringing with it sand and limestone.  However, as the sedimentary rock was being washed in, small chimneys of lava pushed through layers of forming schist to cover the area in igneous rock as North American plate slid over the New England hot spot.  As years went on, the sea receded and the magma intrusions became less frequent, the area was left to years of erosion from lakes, river, rain and ice wore the area away until a short frozen period began.  A glacier formed that would dam rivers and scatter boulders across the area.  Great lakes formed from this, eroding away pockets and valleys of the mountains, while the glaciers themselves helped in the creation of numerous mountain passes. 

Although the White Mountains may not seem like much in comparison to the mountains found in states farther west, they are in fact part of the Appalachian Mountain Range.  Covering much of New England, the Appalachians most rugged area is found in the White Mountain area, including Rumney.  The region is just one example of a multitude of mountain ranges that stretch from Alabama all the way into Canada, although it is the most prevalent and well known on the east coast.  Rock climbers hold Rumney in high regard for its many different and variable faces, the region fluctuating in size from short bouldering problems, to routes going up almost 300 feet.