BETA PHOTO: Mayhem Cove as seen from highway 89 about 3 miles ...
Description
This rock features some insane sport climbing ranging in diffculty from 5.9 to low end .13 on usually overhanging granite, with excellent views of Emerald Bay and Lake Tahoe.
You will find this rock in the sun most of the day, and it will cook on a warm summer's day.
Most routes should be rappelled off or lowered off quickdraws, as the bolts are often not quite to the top of the rock.
There are loads of excellent climbs here, and they are too numberous to mention.
Getting There
Approach time: 10 - 20 minutes.
From the parking lot, instead of heading up the main path to Desolation Wilderness, head right into the pine trees from the trailhead. You will find a narrow trail heading gently uphill perpendicular to the main trail in the shade beneath the trees. Take this up about 100 yards until a small trail is found that left and uphill heads up through the rocks to the base of Mayhem Cove.
Mayhem Cove can be seen from the parking lot several hundred yards distant by looking in the foreground to the northwest.
The Classics
Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Mayhem Cove:
Curious about Cajun Hell at Mayhem Cove. I've started working the second pitch, what I think is the 5.12c Drinkin White Lightnin'. It looks like it runs along a thin diagonal seam left of the hanging belay on the headwall above the cave but there's also a line straight up and/or up to the right. Anybody got info or beta tips?
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