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BETA PHOTO: The Petrified Hornet Wall, Indian Creek, Utah.

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A sandy wall betweeen Optimator and 4x$. Good on hot days. Lots of new route potential left.


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Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Petrified Hornet Wall:
Crescent Crack   5.9     Trad, 2 pitches, 40 feet   
Obeesity.   5.10     Trad, 70 feet   
Petrified Hornet   5.10+     Trad, 1 pitch, 80 feet   
Kiefer Ari   5.11-     Trad, 1 pitch, 90 feet   
Unknown   5.11     Trad, 1 pitch, 90 feet   
Sting   5.12-     Trad, 1 pitch, 100 feet   
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Featured Route For Petrified Hornet Wall
Unknown 5.11 at the Petrified Hornet Wall, Indian Creek, Utah.

Unknown 5.11  UT : Moab Area : ... : Petrified Hornet Wall
Lie back the start on the lighter rock where a block has come off the wall and pull into the off fingers splitter that passes a hollow flake and turns to thin hands as it winds it way up the wall before thinning down again before the anchors. Cripy edges abound on this thing but are hard to trust. There's a nice hold to clip the chains from to take the edge off after climbing through some thin stuff. ...[more]   Browse More Classics in UT


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By Erik McGillivray
Mar 23, 2012

Where do you approach from for Petrified Hornet Wall?

By BJ Sbarra
From: Carbondale, CO
Mar 23, 2012

Approach from the same parking area as Optimator, head up the obvious wash that's down and left of the road, and then you should see another wash/trail heading up and left. There were cairns for at least the upper half.

By slim
Mar 23, 2012

i usually approach from a small pulloff (i think there are 2 of them) several hundred yards before the optimator parking. this allows you to get down to the wash pretty quickly (and avoid climbing back up to the optimator parking at the end of the day).

once you get in the wash, head up-stream until you find a decent break on the left. follow it up onto the most obvious ridge. there is usually a faint trail on the ridge.

have fun, cool little crag!

By Erik McGillivray
Mar 23, 2012

Thanks