Mountain Project: Climbing Wasatch Range

Submitted By: Spencer Anderson on Oct 8, 2004
Administrators: Andrew Gram, Perin Blanchard
Latitude: 40.4507 Longitude: -111.6717
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Description

Hard Rock is a great area, with possibly the largest variety of grades and excellent crag positioning. Hard Rock is great almost all year for people of all experience levels. Hard Rock is home to American Fork's easiest routes, 5.6 and 5.7, but the majority of the climbs are in the 5.11-5.12 range.

This is a terrific and fun crag to learn how to lead climb/belay. Hard Rock faces west and south-west, getting good shade in the morning and a lot of sun from the afternoon on.

A stick clip is handy for some of the harder routes

Getting There

To reach the crag head up 1.7 miles up from the monument flagpole, a bit past Little Mill campground. You can park on the north side, in a pay area, or on the south side in the small pull off. Locate the faint tail on the north side of the road and hike up about five minutes following a stream drainage. It takes about five minute to get to the start of the crag, which continues right and wraps around the corner.

The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Hard Rock:

Rockapella 5.7 Sport, TR, 1 pitch, 70 feet

Stoic Calculus 5.8 Sport, TR, 1 pitch, 70 feet

Unknown Left 5.9 Sport, 1 pitch, 55 feet

Unknown Right 5.9 Sport, 1 pitch, 55 feet

Many Options 5.10a Sport, 1 pitch, 60 feet

Winds of Fire 5.10a Sport, 1 pitch, 100 feet

Platinum Blonde 5.10a Sport, 1 pitch, 100 feet

Punch the Clock 5.10a Sport, 1 pitch, 55 feet

Firstborn 5.10c Sport, 1 pitch, 45 feet

Unknown 5.10c 5.10c Sport, 1 pitch, 90 feet

Primal Magic 5.11a Sport, 1 pitch, 50 feet

Eight to Eleven 5.11b Sport, 2 pitches, 100 feet

Suicide Blonde 5.11b Sport, 1 pitch, 40 feet

Juggernaut 5.11b Sport, 1 pitch, 50 feet

Teeanova 5.11d Sport, 1 pitch, 70 feet

Featured Route For Hard Rock

Perin on <a href='/v/utah/wasatch_range/american_fork_canyon/105837850'>Suicide Blonde</a>.

Suicide Blonde 5.11b UT : Wasatch Range : ... : Hard Rock

Overhung and short. Jugs most of the way up. Moves surrounding the last bolt are slightly desperate. ...[more] Browse More Classics in UT

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BETA PHOTO: Next-to-west-most wall at Hard Rock, the Forgo...	BETA PHOTO: The Hard Rock, South West Face 15 Treehugger 5....	BETA PHOTO: The Hard Rock South Wall 18 Eight to Eleven 5.11b/c ...
BETA PHOTO: 22 Winds of Fire 5.10	Unknown climber on Hard Rock. Route is ei...

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By Price
From: Sandy, UT
Dec 1, 2008

A couple things:

The north side, or the picnic area is not a pay area. If you paid to get into the canyon, you're already good.

The best way to get to the crag is usually to head up, west, through the picnic area. At the last picnic table, you'll see a trail that continues west. Follow that trail until it hits the trail going up north to the cliffs.

Enjoy spectacular moderate sport routes.

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