La Selva (Jungle Wall)

BETA PHOTO: Main routes on Jungle Wall. Photo taken February, ...

Description 

From fun, moderate single pitches to 15 pitch routes all the way to the summit, this is a great wall. Facing southeast, it's in the shade late in the day.

Jungle Wall has some of the longest 5.10 sport routes in the world, with the shortest approaches. Classics include:

• Jungle Mountaineering, 5.10a, 4 pitches. The first bolted route established at El Potrero, in 1989. A bit runout by modern standards.

• Yankee Clipper, 5.10b, 14 pitches, with an optional 15th pitch (5.12a) that goes to the very summit. Most people stop after 13 pitches.

• Space Boyz, 5.10d, 11 pitches. This El Potrero classic was bolted over the course of 52 weekends. That's dedication!

• Black Cat Bone, 5.10d, 9 pitches. Lots of varied climbing on this route, with each pitch different than the one before it.

Getting There 

It's the big wall immediately behind the picnic pavilion on the right side of the canyon. Routes start in "the jungle" of relatively verdant growth at ground level.

Featured Route For La Selva (Jungle Wall)

Yankee Clipper 5.12a  International : Mexico : ... : La Selva (Jungle Wall)

This is a long moderate route with the 15th pitch being 5.12a. If you don't do the 15th pitch, it goes at 5.10b. I only did the first 14 pitches. We climbed with a single 60m rope and on the raps, we had the knot up against our belay devices multiple times. I recommend the 60m rope, a 70m would be an extra 10m * 14 * 2 = 280m of rope to manage. The rock is sharper the higher you go, until the 14th pitch...in shade and not as sharp. Here are...[more]

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La Selva wall, with the spires off to the left.	La Selva wall. The route on the ride side of the ...	Marga on the second pitch of Yankee Clipper.
Marga on the fourth pitch of Yankee Clipper.	Mike Amato heading out to lead on Space Boyz.	Greg and I on Jungle Mountaineering on the Jungle...