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The Imagination Wall Rock Climbing
| Elevation: | 8,000 ft |
| GPS: | 36.267, -115.662 Google Map · Climbing Area Map |
| Page Views: | 11,290 total · 78/month |
| Shared By: | Matt McMurray on Sep 12, 2006 |
| Admins: | Justin Johnsen |
Access Issue: Mount Charleston Wilderness Area
Details
Much of this area is in the Mount Charleston Wilderness Area, learn which crags are within our outside of it before you go. See the BLM Fact Sheetblm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files… for a good overview of what it protects and what that limits, and the Forest Service pagefs.usda.gov/detailfull/htnf… for other information.
Description
The Imagination Wall is located directly above the Mary Jane Falls trailhead in Kyle Canyon. The blue-gray and yellow wall reaches over 300 feet in some places and the climbing is mostly vertical or just off vertical. The holds are often small water runnels or edges, unlike the pockets at the Hood.
Getting There
Take S.R. 57 from I-95 all the way past the Mt. Charleston hotel into Kyle Canyon.
Follow this road as it winds up the hill until you encounter a sharp left-turning bend in the road.
Immediately before this bend, turn right off of the road onto Echo Rd. and continue uphill and follow the signs toward the Mary Jane Falls turn-off.
Park on the southeast side of the lot by the old rope tow.
Hike up until the rope tow levels off.
Continue up the wash a short distance until you veer out of the wash toward the right end of the wall.
Follow this road as it winds up the hill until you encounter a sharp left-turning bend in the road.
Immediately before this bend, turn right off of the road onto Echo Rd. and continue uphill and follow the signs toward the Mary Jane Falls turn-off.
Park on the southeast side of the lot by the old rope tow.
Hike up until the rope tow levels off.
Continue up the wash a short distance until you veer out of the wash toward the right end of the wall.
Classic Climbing Routes at The Imagination Wall
Mountain Project's determination of the classic, most popular, highest rated climbing routes in this area.
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Athens, GA
If you go all the way to the Mary Jane Falls parking lot, you'll have passed the rope tow; it's nestled in between the Trail Canyon parking lot and the Mary Jane Falls parking lot across from some parallel parking on a dirt road. It's closer to the Trail Canyon parking than it is to the SE corner of the Mary Jane lot. There's a big dirt lot blocked off by a few large boulders with a sign for the old rope tow on it, and the rope tow pylons begin at the SE corner of this dirt lot.
To reach the wall, hike up along the pylons. Many are bent over completely. At the end you'll find a large metal box thing on your left (which was the end of the rope tow?). Keep hiking up the wash, there are a few trails here all of which seemed to go to the same spot more or less. Eventually you'll reach a spot shortly before the end of the cliff. There was a rather large cairn in the middle of the wash marking the spot. From here you'll follow a steep trail with switch backs to the base of the cliff. There was a single bolt (we didn't see any others above it to mark an actual route) on the rock directly in front of us just as we arrived. To the left a bit will be the steep incline as indicated by the guidebook. Jul 3, 2016