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!
Description
A beautiful south facing dome in the secluded Latir Peaks Wilderness area. Granite, solid with cracks and steep faces routes up to 5.12.
There is excellent granite bouldering along the trail to the Dome. The trail climbs through the pines and then meets beautiful El Rito Creek.The angles increases and then the dome comes into to view on the left. Traverse left to the base of the rock.
Getting There
From Taos: follows SR 522 north past the Village of Questa. Six miles past Questa look for a sign on the right pointing to El Rito. Turn right and go just under a mile to where the road turns (at a house) to dirt. Veer right and then climb up the steep road for just under a mile, go right at a junction for 0.2 miles a small parking and the trailhead on the left.
[High clearance or extra hiking was mandatory last year; now (June 08) probably passable with normal car if you want to trash it- Admin]
Pitch 1: Begin below a short, curving half moon flake about 20 feet off the ground. Climb up to the flake and then veer a little left across a slab under a small roof. Reach a thin crack with a pin and then go straight up steep rock past a bolt to a chain anchor. Classic!Pitch 2: Climb straight up the thin crack past a pin and where the crack dies out, step a little left and then back right to a horn/flake (dicey) make another dicey move up to a ...[more]
A new route (The Ancient Ones 5.10a) is located on the southeast face of questa dome. Route description and topo are available at Mudd-n-flood and Taos Mountain Outfitters in Taos.
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