This wall gets morning sunshine and afternoon shade so it can be climbed from fall to spring, later if you are a hard core desert rat. It is the color of slate and has some bullet hard limestone. The routes will be slightly less than vertical unless they are undercut at the bottom. These can be pretty bouldery to start. Routes range from 50 feet long to 25 feet at the right most end. These right hand routes are new since spring 2006.
Getting There
Continue up drainage until a cairn marks a trail to the left. It is 60 feet above the base of the drainage and 15-20 minutes from the parking.
The Classics
Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Slate Nation:
The routes in this area are extremely difficult to differentiate, as there are alot of new routes going in. The occasional plaque on some of the classics might be nice to tell the visitor where there at on the cliff.
Woah, relax man, my version of a plaque is a small detached rock with the name and grade written on it sitting at the base of a climb. Similar to the plaques at IC. Photo
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