Home - Destinations - People - Partners - Forum - Photos - What's New
 ADVANCED
Mesa Verde Wall

Show routes:
Select route...
Bad Moon Rising 
Cosmos 
Down's Syndrome 
Massive Luxury Overdose (aka Planet Luxury) 
Moons of Pluto 
Palo Verde 
Reason To Be 
Screaming Yellow Zonkers 
Sundown 
Tale of Two Shitties 
Trezlar 

Mesa Verde Wall

Submitted By: Bryson Slothower on Mar 1, 2006
Administrator: Peter Franzen
Elevation: 200 feet
Views: 2,240 page views

Add Route  Add Photo  Add Comment  Add Event 

Discussions available in the
Pacific Northwest
Message Forum
  Print a Mini-Guide - Includes Routes!

Seasonal raptor closure at Monument Area MORE INFO >>>

Description 

Great West side crag, cool on summer mornings in the shade.
Good collection of trad and sport climbs from one to three pitches long.


Getting There 

There are 3 options: Hike up and over the Misery Ridge trail, scramble over Asterisk Pass, or slog up one of the gullies and then down the trail that starts up by the diving board near the Monkey.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Mesa Verde Wall:
Cosmos   5.10a     Sport, 70 feet   
Tale of Two Shitties   5.10a     Trad, 3 pitches, 250 feet   
Trezlar   5.10a     Trad, 2 pitches, 200 feet   
Screaming Yellow Zonkers   5.10b     Sport, 1 pitch, 85 feet   
Reason To Be   5.10d     Sport, 1 pitch, 80 feet   
Moons of Pluto   5.10d     Sport, 95 feet   
Bad Moon Rising   5.11a     Sport, 90 feet   
Browse More Classics in Mesa Verde Wall

Featured Route For Mesa Verde Wall
Jake Hector on P2 of Palo Verde

Palo Verde 5.6 A2+  OR : Smith Rock : Mesa Verde Wall
Best nailing route at smith. A3 in the Watts guide. As always aid ratings are subjective. P1 - 4th class - Scramble up to the 4th class ledge, belay from two bolts.P2 - 5.6 A2+ - Free climb up to the aid cracks, begin on clean aid with aliens, aid past retro bolt belay into a shallow diheadral, belay from bolts, below roof. P3 - 5.4 A2+ - Pull the roof on a fixed KB and continue up the crack, the rock gets rotten but there are a few 3 bolts and a...[more]   Browse More Classics in OR


Comments on Mesa Verde Wall Add Comment
Show which comments
By Bryson Slothower
Jun 12, 2006

Anyone done Desolation Row? How is it?