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Submitted By: Mike Morley on Jan 3, 2007
Administrators: Art Morimitsu, Jay Tanzman
Latitude: 34.0441  Longitude: -118.2472 
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The sprawling Los Angeles County is home to more than 10 million residents. The city of Los Angeles itself (pop. 4 million) is the second largest in the United States (New York City is first).

The San Fernando Valley (to the northwest of the L.A. Basin) and Santa Monica Mountains host an assortment of climbing on primarily soft sandstone. Malibu Creek State Park, located off the 101 freeway near Calabasas, is a funky volcanic rock type.


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The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Los Angeles County:
Amphitheater (aka Todd's) Traverse   V0     Boulder, 50 feet   Stoney Point : Amphitheater
Three Pigs   V0     Boulder, Chipped, 1 pitch, 15 feet   Stoney Point : Boulder 1
Spiral Traverse   V1     Boulder, 50 feet   Stoney Point : Spiral Boulder
Crowd Pleaser   V2     Boulder, 25 feet   Stoney Point : Turlock
Kodas' Corner   V3     Boulder, 20 feet   Stoney Point : Canyon Boulders
Crystal Ball Mantel   V4-5     Boulder, 23 feet   Stoney Point : Turlock
Arete   5.6     TR, 95 feet   Point Dume
Left Hand   5.7     TR, 50 feet   Stoney Point : Mozart's Wall
Chopping Block   5.8     Sport   Malibu Creek State Park : Stumbling Blocks
Center   5.8     TR, 90 feet   Point Dume
Guerilla Drilla   5.10a     Sport   Malibu Creek State Park : Stumbling Blocks
Center Route   5.10a     TR, 1 pitch, 50 feet   Stoney Point : Beethoven's Wall
Casey at the Bat   5.10b     Sport, 1 pitch, 100 feet   Echo Cliffs : Easy Street
The Third Degree   5.10b     Sport   Malibu Creek State Park : Stumbling Blocks
Johnny Can't Lead   5.10d     Sport, 1 pitch, 40 feet   Malibu Creek State Park : Ghetto Wall
Mr. Big   5.10d     Sport, 35 feet   Malibu Creek State Park : Stumbling Blocks
Caffeine   5.11a     Sport, 1 pitch, 100 feet   Echo Cliffs : Java Wall
Espresso   5.11-     Sport, 1 pitch   Echo Cliffs : Java Wall
Nipple Denial Syndrome   5.11a/b     Sport   Malibu Creek State Park : Stumbling Blocks
Urban Struggle   5.12a/b     Sport, 1 pitch   Malibu Creek State Park : Ghetto Wall
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Featured Route For Los Angeles County
Scott Nomi on the bulge

Amphitheater (aka Todd's) Traverse V0  CA : Los Angeles County : ... : Amphitheater
Start on the right and make a delicate sequence across and down to better holds - easier pockets lead to the bulge, and a stiff little pull to a crack then easier ground to finish.A great route for endurance laps, 20 times is a 1000'!...[more]   Browse More Classics in CA


Photos of Los Angeles County Slideshow Add Photo
Michael Reardon on Sculpture's Traverse - you'll be missed.<br />(c) Michael Reardon Collection

Michael Reardon on Sculpture's Traverse - you'll b...

A view of the harbor, San Pedro.

A view of the harbor, San Pedro.

Friendship Park, San Pedro.

Friendship Park, San Pedro.

The bell at Friendship Park, San Pedro.

The bell at Friendship Park, San Pedro.

The Echo Cliffs

BETA PHOTO: The Echo Cliffs

Scott Nomi tops out on Three Pigs.

Scott Nomi tops out on Three Pigs.

Clouds above the LA Basin - Xmas 1989

Clouds above the LA Basin - Xmas 1989

The approach, living in So-Cal is rough

The approach, living in So-Cal is rough

Ian Nichels climbing the south wall.

Ian Nichels climbing the south wall.

One rather angry Alligator Lizard (Malibu Creek State Park)

One rather angry Alligator Lizard (Malibu Creek St...


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By Benjamin Chapman
From: CA
May 7, 2009

Where is the section at Mountain Project for Echo Cliffs climbing routes and information? Shouldn't there to a section for this very popular crag?

By Art Morimitsu
Administrator
From: Huntington Beach, Ca
May 8, 2009

Echo cliffs is under the sub area Santa Monica Mountains

By benjamin malave
Jun 4, 2009

I just wanted to clear up some information about "the slabs." It is actually called Corpse Wall
due to the corpse we found at the bottom of the route "R.I.P. Arete" where the cross is located.
All the routes were put up by Abraham E. Benjamin M. Brahm H. Darren A. Mike O.
I also wanted to add that the corpse was a guy that committed suicide. We know this because he left a note.
There was a strong effort to make everything bomber. We did not put anchors on the top
of all the routes because it was not needed and would have been a much bigger footprint.

The routes have all been put up in the last 5 years. There are some more recent routes that
have not yet been bolted but can be TR.
I would also like to add that there are some random bolts on the wall that someone
put in for no known or obvious reason.
There are some routes that use pro as well as draws. In general. the routes were never intended to be sport routes.
If anyone's interested, I'll post the names and ratings of all the routes in the next couple of weeks.

Climb Safe and be good to our planet.

Benjamin M.

By Michael Bartosek
From: Los Angeles
Jul 9, 2009

Benjamin - thanks for the clarification on Corpse Wall - I changed the name and it would be fantastic if you could update the information on that page..