Welcome to the New Mexico section of Mountain Project!
The contributions that are made to this site are greatly appreciated; this site is made up of an awesome community of users that make the site what it is.
Although there is very little information regarding “rules” for submitting climbing areas and routes to this site, the New Mexico Administers all agree that the following guidelines may be helpful to truly make this site go “Beyond the Guidebook”.
1) Don’t be a jerk (this one states the obvious). 2) Route and area submissions should truly be helpful to those out climbing. Before posting, you should have some first hand experience actually climbing the route. This always results in a much more useful description. 3) Please, please, please… Don’t copy route descriptions directly out of guidebooks, online publications, etc. This is plagiarism! Remember, BEYOND the guidebook! 4) Please use the spell check and make an effort to use correct grammar.
Again, the Mountainproject community truly appreciates the efforts taken to make good route descriptions. If you feel that a route or area description is not up to standard, a brief email to one of the area admins for suggestions on improvement will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for taking the time to make the New Mexico section of Mountain Project quality! We look forward to seeing you out there!
Bill Geist leading "Hollywood Tim" on an unseasona...
Description
A very fun route on the Sponge. Getting to the high first bolt is the mental crux of the route. The physical crux comes between bolts three and four.
Location
The right-most route on The Sponge. An obvious tramped out area marks the start.
A really enjoyable route! The first bolt is a ways up there but the climbing to that point isn't too difficult. There is a vertical crack to the right of the line down low that can be used to protect the lower section.
By Jason Hundhausen From: Los Alamos, NM Jun 14, 2007 rating: 5.9+
Very nice route! Tricky crux if you don't know where to look... Was up there this past weekend and found that somebody replaced the anchors with nice, new springer hangers (thanks!). It's been awhile, but it appears that somebody also added a bolt to the lower section of this route.
FYI: Named for Tim Rutherford, a very fun LA 1980s guy who often wore white leather shoes (thus the Hollywood reference courtesy of Mike Schillaci). Cam
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