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BETA PHOTO: Route topo photo of the Styx area of Diablo Canyon...
Description
A warm, south-facing basalt area just beyond the Solar Cave area that offers enjoyable, easier traditional routes up nice crack, columns and small dihedrals. The features resemble those of Devils Tower, Wyoming but on a *much* smaller and less steep scale.
All climbs here have two-bolt anchors.
Multiple lines exist on this face so get creative and have fun as the climbing never gets too hard.
Getting There
Park at the main Diablo Canyon parking area. Hike down the sandy wash towards the Rio Grande passing the Winter Wall and Solar Cave areas and look for anchor bolts on the right wall five feet off the ground. These low anchor bolts are used for cave rescues and are located between climbs "Elysian Fields" and "Phlegethon's Ripple".
This is a good place for a beginning trad leader. Very accessible and good protection for most of the climbs. As usual for Diablo, watch for loose rock.
By George Perkins Administrator From: Los Alamos, NM Jan 7, 2008
(Much like hell...) Styx bakes in the sun in the summer; but is shaded in the winter as the sun is too low in the sky and blocked by cliffs.
Denny Newell and friends did some (probable) FAs in this area in the early '90s, but he forgot which lines, exactly.. The names came later, with the guidebook being published.
By Tom Johnson From: Colorado Springs, or Santa Fe 2 days ago
Great little wall for some easy trad. Remember a rope bag or ground cloth; super sandy at the base.
Styx
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