The Melting Mud Wall  Photos:  Recent | Best | Popular Elevation:  8,500' Page Views:  9,753. Good page?    Administrators:  Kristine Hoffman, Andrew Gram, Perin Blanchard, grk10vq, Tom Erickson Submitted By:  James Garrett on Sep 12, 2007 Make this area a Favorite What's New   Print a Mini-Guide with routes Add Route  Add Photo  Add Comment  Add Event  Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue 79° | 50° 82° | 50° 82° | 46° 75° | 48° 79° | 48°

Stay on the trails MORE INFO >>> This is private property. Respect it and consider it a privilege to climb here. This information is a public crowdsourcing effort between the Access Fund, and Mountain Project. You should confirm closures, restrictions, and/or related dates. Keeping climbing areas open and conserving the climbing environment Park your car off of the main canyon road.

Greg & crew on Melting Mud wall in winter

Description 

This is the furthest East of the most significant East Hellgate Walls. Though one of the last to be developed, it is the first one encountered hiking up the trail. Maybe due to this last factoid, it is also probably the most popular and most crowded. MMW offers long and well protected routes, two-pitch routes, aesthetic movement, and modern day classics in the 5.8 to 5.12 range. If one discusses the highest quality (if there is such a concept in some people's minds regarding upper LCC) Hellgate limestone, perhaps the Melting Mud Wall, despite its name to the contrary, stands tall in the quality ratings.

If you want to get out of the gym and get that high alpine feeling with minimal effort, walk the 7 minutes it takes to get to this place. Big Fun will be yours.
I will warn all visitors again, please wear a helmet at all times while visitng this area.

Getting There 

Park off the main Little Cottonwood Canyon Wall below the Microwave. This is directly across from the Alta bypass road.

The Classics

Featured Route For The Melting Mud Wall

Melting Into Madness 5.10d  UT : Wasatch Range : ... : The Melting Mud Wall

A really fun .10 with lots of really big jugs interspersed between nice pockets and crimps. This has two pitches and the first has two variations - one in the dihedral and one on the face but I'm not sure how those guys meant for it to go. I just know if you link both pitches together in one long pitch its a really fun climb. Just enough jugs and rests to avoid being .11...[more]   Browse More Classics in UT