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Best Bitters 
Black Velvet 
DWI 
Five Easy Steps 
Have a Drink On Me 
Irish Creme 
Lite Beer From Miller 
Lowenbrau Light 
Margaritaville 
Miller High Life 
One Shot 
Wild Turkey 
Zombie 


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Southern Comfort Wall 


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Description 

South facing wall located at the base of the Rabbit Ears Massif. There are several high quality trad routes on this wall. The rock tends to be good quality. There are 3 separate rappel routes which make the descent fairly easy. Bring two ropes to rappel.


Getting There 

Approach via Topp Hut rd. 30m-1h (are you in shape?) to reach the cliff. Follow the Topp Hut rd past the hut. Take a right turn at the first fork and continue up this rd until its end. From here, strike up a climber's trail which heads directly up the slope to the cliffs base.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Southern Comfort Wall:
Five Easy Steps   5.5     Trad, 2 pitches, 160 feet   
Lowenbrau Light   5.7+     Trad, 2 pitches, 180 feet   
Wild Turkey   5.8     Trad, 1 pitch, 100 feet   
Margaritaville   5.8+     Trad, 2 pitches, 250 feet   
Black Velvet   5.9     Trad, 3 pitches, 200 feet   
Best Bitters   5.9+     Trad, 2 pitches, 200 feet   
DWI   5.10-     Trad, 95 feet   
Irish Creme   5.10+ PG13     Trad, 1 pitch, 160 feet   
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Unknown climber at the crux section

Black Velvet 5.9  NM : Organ Mountains : Southern Comfort Wall
Start at a gnarly oak growing out of a ledge 10m up the cliff, under a large left facing crack system. A huge roof caps off the final pitch and makes an excellent landmark.Pitch 1 climbs into the corner/crack system up to a small belay stance just below a hand traverse left. Pitch 2 goes out the hand traverse and up a steep layback. Yucca plants make pulling out of the crack system sticky. Belay on a broad shrub covered ledge underneath the huge roof. This is the crux pitch. Pitch 3 traverses un...[more]   Browse More Classics in NM


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The view of Las Cruces at sunset while hiking out from the Southern Comfort wall in February 2008.

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Southern Comfort Wall

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Nice face climbing on Southern Comfort Wall <br />Have A Drink On Me (5.7)?

Nice face climbing on Southern Comfort Wall
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Routes at the Fin (which I called Elverum Cove in my packet because I didn't know the name)

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West Side of Southern Comfort <br />A. Have a Drink on Me 7 <br />B. Lite Beer from Miller 8 <br />C. Irish Creme 10 <br />D. Miller High life 7R

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E. Lowenbrau Light <br />F. Black Velvet <br />G. Margaritaville

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J. Best Bitters 9 <br />K. Five Easy Steps 5 <br />L. Hangover 11 <br />M. DWI 10- <br />N. DT's 11r/x

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H. Wild Turkey 8 <br />I. Zombie 8 <br />J. Best Bitters 9 <br />K. Five Easy Steps 5

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F. Black Velvet <br />G. Margaritaville <br />J. Best Bitters <br />K. Five Easy Steps <br />L. Hangover <br />M. DWI <br />N. DT's 11R/X

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By cuclimbing
From: Las Cruces
Dec 22, 2008

On Elervum’s Cove when doing the (P) Route from the Lost Causes guide, or the route that splits to a 10&11 near the top. Are there chains or anything to rap off of? I know there's that one bolt on the 11. We didnt make it to the top cause we weren't sure if there was a rap down...

By Aaron Hobson
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From: Las Cruces, NM
Dec 23, 2008

I thought I had Charlie's latest topo for Southern Comfort but apparently I don't. Elervum's Cove is the west of the main wall, where the shady oak trees are right? I've jumped on one of those routes, the one in the center of the wall that starts slabby on thin gear, and passes two bolts at a crux that is very slabby. After the crux I stayed left to reach the anchors (bolts and chains, about 30 m to ground) instead of heading right where I recall two bolts climbed over more slabbiness.

By Karl Kiser
Jun 19, 2012

The historic name for the area was The Fin. Kelly put up some good routes there but the area is not named after him.