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!
BETA PHOTO: Belly Up, 5.7, Potrillo Cliffs, White Rock, NM
Start in an easy broken crack system that is shared with Grandstanding (a 5.4 that goes to the right). The crux is in the top half, surmounting the fairly thin, bulgy face that forms the right side of a dihedral with a thin, fairly dirty seam in back (too thin for fingers).
Location
Middle of the south cliff.
Protection
Small-Medium cams below, but have some small nuts ready for the thin seam at the crux.
This line possesses two camo'd bolts for a top anchor (as of Feb. 2008). One can also use these bolts to TR Belly Flop to the left of Belly Up (acknowledging the slight possible pendulum if you fall off Belly Flop).