Comic Book Area  Photos:  Recent | Best | Popular Elevation:  4,400' Lat, Long:  34.013, -116.143 Map Page Views:  35,914. Good page?    Administrators:  C Miller, Adam Stackhouse, M.Morley, Sam Vanderhyden, Tom Erickson Submitted By:  C Miller on Jul 8, 2002 Make this area a Favorite What's New  Printer View Add Area  Add Photo  Add Comment  Add Event

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Description 

The Comic Book Area offers an opportunity to get away from the crowds of the nearby Echo Rock Area and enjoy some fun crack and face climbs with generally good quality rock.

Some of the better cracks here include Alice in Wonderjam (5.9), Comic Book (5.10a), Drano (5.10a), Frontal Lobotomy (5.10a), Take It For Granite (5.10c) and Brain Death (5.12a).

Full Frontal Nudity (5.10a), T-N-T (5.10c), Welcome to Joshua Tree (5.10c), Cleopatra (5.11b) and Silver Lining (5.11c) are some of the better face routes here.

Getting There 

Drive east past Echo Tee for about 0.5 miles along the Bighorn Pass Road, as if heading to Barker Dam, and park in any of several turnouts. From here a marked trail heads south along the edge of the hillside to the various climbing areas. Plan on 5-20 minutes approach depending upon which crag you plan on visiting.

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Full Frontal Nudity 5.10a  CA : Joshua Tree National Park : ... : The Comic Strip - SW Face

Follow the marked trail out to the Comic Strip where you will find this climb. This formation will be facing away from you as approach, but it is easily identified as a massive formation which lies at the mouth of rocky canyon heading east (the left as you approach). It is also the next large formation encountered after passing the Mary Worth Buttress.P1) Start on the most obvious crack splitting the face - this is the Comic Book route (5.9+)- and climb it past some wide sections to a dike. T...[more]   Browse More Classics in CA

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