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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

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Mutilated Corpses 5.11c  CA : Tahoe Vicinity : ... : Mayhem Cove

Climb up to the first small roof and pull up into the short left facing corner above. Go up the short corner and try and find a way to rest below the next roof about midway up the route. The 1st crux (maybe 11b/c) involves pulling up into the corner above the first roof. Next, pull the second roof using fantastic sloper side pulls; the second roof is the harder of the two cruxes (11c). Following the roof, continue up and then slightly left on great, juggy rock to a third and final roof...[more]   Browse More Classics in CA

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Kurt Smith climbing at Mayhem Cove. Photo by Blitz...