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The rock climbing area known as Towers of Uncertainty is closed to public use due to wildlife activity. The closure is usually in effect from March through June
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Lava Dome
Description Lava Dome is a dark brown, ragged-looking, formation that sits at the southern end of the Towers of Uncertainty. It's not dome-like at all, it's actually steep on the north and west sides and has the look of frozen lava shooting up. The north side has 3 obvious cracks, while the west face is pretty smooth.
Getting There Once in the Towers of Uncertainty area, walk west from Crow's Next to Reef Rock with it's distinctive flat north face (many horizontal cracks). Just west of Reef Rock, head south in a river bed of soft sand. This is a cool walk. Snake past various close formations, heading south, until Lava Dome shows up on your left. It's one of the southernmost formations in this area.
The ClassicsMountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Lava Dome:
Featured Route For Lava Dome
BETA PHOTO
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Lave Dome, west face
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Lava Dome area.
Photo by Blitzo.
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By tony grice
Mar 20, 2006
| Check out the three new routes on the west face.
a 3 bolt 5.9 super route.
a 5 bolt 10d or 11a to a 2 bolt anchor, 3star
a 10 a crack to the last two bolts of the prev route. sunny crag
bees poss in warm weather |
By Brandt Allen
From: Joshua Tree, Cal
Dec 1, 2008
| The 5.9 route on the west face is indeed super! Fun moves on excellent rock all the way. The 10a on the far right is also good, especially at the top where it joins the middle route.
All I can say about the middle route is that it looks hard!
Am I right in thinking these are Bob Gaines routes? What are the names? |
By Bob Gaines
Dec 1, 2008
| Hi Brandt:
Posted all the beta on those routes. Nice rock quality on this little wall. The only caveat is that last year there were some very aggressive bees in the immediate area that scared several parties away. |
By Murf
Feb 16, 2010
| Really good day to be had here, you can get sun or shade with a flat base of operations.
Thanks Bob and Adam for the route updates. |
By Adam Stackhouse
Administrator
Feb 16, 2010
| TM, I corrected the pictures and or the text associated with them |
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