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Mentor Cave

Submitted By: Josh Janes on Nov 15, 2007
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Description

The Mentor Cave is the obvious cave on the right side of the southern walls. Routes are a little shorter, but steeper.

Getting There

From the parking area, drop down under the freeway and follow an obvious trail up to the walls. Approach time is about 10 minutes.

The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Mentor Cave:

Mentor 5.12b Sport, 1 pitch, 60 feet

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Mentor 5.12b AZ : Virgin River Gorge : Mentor Cave

Super classic! If you can stand the road noise and the guys breaking into your car, this is the route you want to be doing while you are here. Climbs out the Mentor cave (just right of the Blasphemy wall) on great pockets, edges, sidepulls... the whole kitchen sink. Very Steep!Somewhere toward the middle you even get a leg thread to cop a rest. Once you pull out of the cave onto the headwall, you lose sight of your belayer - and the road noise...[more] Browse More Classics in AZ