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BETA PHOTO: The Brown Wall

Description 

Home to a set of stiff routes, a good half day could be spent here for the 5.10 leader.


Getting There 

Quite a hoof for Real Hidden Valley (at least 5 minutes!), The Brown Wall is located on the north end of RHV. Leave the trail as it begins to curve back towards Thin Wall (or turn right as the trail turns right to Sports Challenge), walk north a bit and then up the talus to the base.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for The Brown Wall:
Captain Kronos   5.9 R     Trad, 1 pitch, 70 feet   
Brownian Motion   5.10b     Trad, 1 pitch, 60 feet   
Jerry Brown   5.10b     Trad, 1 pitch, 60 feet   
Brown Trousers (aka Mr. Hankey)   5.10d R     Trad, 1 pitch, 60 feet   
Brown 25   5.11a R     Trad, 1 pitch, 55 feet   
James Brown   5.11b X     Trad, 1 pitch, 60 feet   
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Featured Route For The Brown Wall
"Brownian Motion". <br />Photo by Blitzo.

Brownian Motion 5.10b  CA : Joshua Tree National Park : ... : The Brown Wall
Step left from the block to nice holds or contrive your way up from the bottom. Follow a thin crack with great locks on the right and a rail with big holds on the left until the rail fades. Make an insecure move to easier climbing. This route is very enjoyable but not as sustained or pumpy as Jerry Brown....[more]   Browse More Classics in CA


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The Brown Wall. <br />Photo by Blitzo.

The Brown Wall.
Photo by Blitzo.


The Brown Wall from a crow's viewpoint

BETA PHOTO: The Brown Wall from a crow's viewpoint

Topo for some of the routes on Brown Wall. Thanks Adam Stackhouse for the fine photo... (hope it's okay to borrow this...)

BETA PHOTO: Topo for some of the routes on Brown Wall. Thanks ...


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By Steve "Crusher" Bartlett
Aug 20, 2008

Great to see this fine hunk of rock get some attention. Just discovered my old notes about these routes. Around New Years 1984/1985, Canadian climber Louis Babin and I climbed just about every line we could winkle out of this wall. From left to right Louis Babin free soloed the large corner, which he called Albino Corner, after the pale rock. Not sure if this is Sgt Saturn, but I'm not sure where Sgt Saturn could fit otherwise. It was a pretty major corner. Went at around moderate 5.10. To the right, on the line of Brown and Serve, is, I believe, the real line of Brownian Motion. Just right again Louis Babin and I climbed a line we called Hash Brownies, at 5.10a. We got beat to the next one; The Big Brown, another Louis Babin solo, appears to follow the line of Captain Kronos. The line marked as "Brownian Motion" here, and in the Vogel book, now I look at it a bit more closely, appears to be the line of a route I climbed with Steve Untch, called Brownies in Motion. Confused yet? Umm, sorry.....the topo might help. Lastly, the exact line of Mr Hankey was led and given the name Brown Trousers, appropriately enough perhaps.