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Shady Side

Submitted By: Aaron Hobson on May 24, 2006
Administrators: Aaron Hobson, Anthony Stout, George Perkins
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BETA PHOTO: The middle section of the shady side.

Description

The shady side (North facing) of La Cueva offers many challenging trad leads and is the best place to be during hot days, which is most of the time down here. Fortunately, the shady side has more routes than the sunny side.

Getting There

Follow the trail from La Cueva picnic area.

The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Shady Side:

Bolted Chimney 5.7 Trad, Sport, 75 feet

This is not a test 5.10 Trad, 80 feet

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Bolted Chimney 5.7 NM : Organ Mountains : ... : Shady Side

Located on western end of the Shady North side of La Cueva, this climb is a wide chimney with three bolts in the upper section. Fairly straightforward and excellent climbing on solid rock....[more] Browse More Classics in NM

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The Organs seen from the Shady Side at Sunset. The...

BETA PHOTO: Shady Side from 4x4 road