This small crag was developed during the winter and spring of 2009. Although very limited in size, the quality of the rock and climbing makes it worth a visit. The relatively short approach doesn’t hurt, either. Expect quality stone (Grandfather-style) and mostly well protected climbing. The routes tend to be short but sustained. The crag stays shaded most of the day. There is some cool undeveloped bouldering potential down here for someone willing to clean rocks and trim rhodos.
Getting There
Walk east past the metal gate for about 0.8 miles. The trail will get a bit steeper and there will be some small boulders sticking up out of the trail. Shortly after this will be a large dead tree parallel to the trail on the left, possibly with a cairn. Turn left here and follow the trail 300’ down to the crag. The gully will come in at the far right.
The Classics
Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for ET Wall:
Checked it out the other day. Very nice and compact wall. Same great rock as Hawksbill and the Linville River Crag. The trail is quite a nice mtn bike ride too, though I'm not sure where it leads to after the crag. Has anyone here been any further? Also, where are those tall slabs in relation to this crag?
They are pretty much directly below ET Wall, sort of back towards the parking a bit. You could bushwhack down there, just go down the drainage with the bouldering (turn left at bottow of gully). I cut a semi-trail down there, but it wont be easy. I approached from below once but it was HEINOUS. They might be too low-angled and/or featured to be much of a challenge. If you stop on the road while driving in at the right time, you can see the whole ridge line. The slabs and the top of ET wall are quite obvious. Some of the lower stuff on the creek had ice on it in the winter. Again, it was pretty low angle. Maybe some of it is steeper, it's certainly tall and of high rock quality.
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