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Outlaw Wall

Idaho > N Idaho > Q'Emiln Park

Description

Really impressive wall, just needs some traffic. Long trad and sport lines and what looks to be some decent bouldering. Don’t let the approach scare you away.

Getting There

This wall can be approached from the Post Falls Community Forest (PFCF) Lot or the main lot for Q’emiln Park.
From the main lot: approach as for lower fifth canyon. After turning off the wagon trail for lower fifth, you go down a steep hill with a little easy down climbing. At the base of this hill, you hit a large valley and a T intersection in the trail, take a left, and then an immmediate right at the (purple/green/yellow) trailmarker. Near the top of the ridge line the trail starts to head up and left, turn downhill, and right, on an obvious trail to go to the base of Outlaw wall, before the ridge line you are walking on turns into a cliff.
Look at the PFCF map (online PDF). The purple/green/yellow trail follows the rim of outlaw cliff. Fairly easy to piece together the approach using this map (in photos below).
Alternatively (from PFCF Lot) follow the road all the way down to river level; before reaching lower fifth canyon, use existing trails to head uphill and east. 

Routes from Left to Right

5.7+ 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b
 5
● Variety Pack
Trad, TR
5.10c/d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b
 6
● Ronin
Sport
5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
 22
● K27
Sport
5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a R
 1
● Kinnikinnick
Trad
5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
 12
● Metanoia
Sport, TR
5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b
 9
● Dharma Bums
Trad, TR
5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
 20
● Just A Tease
Sport
5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
 9
● Dalai Lama
Sport
5.9- 5c 17 VI 16 HVS 4c
 17
● Wallflower
Sport
5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
 14
● Greybeard
Sport
5.11b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c
 5
● Expanding Doubt
Sport
V4 6B
 2
● Lahaina Noon
Boulder
V2- 5+
 1
● Leonard the Dragon
Boulder
V1 5
 1
● Modus Operandi
Boulder
V2 5+
 1
● The Ripple Effect
Boulder
V2- 5+
 1
● She’s a Keeper
Boulder
Route Name Location Star Rating Difficulty Date
● Variety Pack
 5
5.7+ 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b Trad, TR
● Ronin
 6
5.10c/d 6b+ 21 VII+ 21 E3 5b Sport
● K27
 22
5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a Sport
● Kinnikinnick
 1
5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a R Trad
● Metanoia
 12
5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a Sport, TR
● Dharma Bums
 9
5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b Trad, TR
● Just A Tease
 20
5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a Sport
● Dalai Lama
 9
5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a Sport
● Wallflower
 17
5.9- 5c 17 VI 16 HVS 4c Sport
● Greybeard
 14
5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a Sport
● Expanding Doubt
 5
5.11b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c Sport
● Lahaina Noon
 2
V4 6B Boulder
● Leonard the Dragon
 1
V2- 5+ Boulder
● Modus Operandi
 1
V1 5 Boulder
● The Ripple Effect
 1
V2 5+ Boulder
● She’s a Keeper
 1
V2- 5+ Boulder

Photos [Hide ALL Photos]

Outlaw Wall sign
[Hide Photo] Outlaw Wall sign
This is Chuck's wall...
[Hide Photo] This is Chuck's wall...
Did not see the Outlaw Wall sign, but instead this! Just incase anyone else walks by this as many times as we did trying to find the wall :)
[Hide Photo] Did not see the Outlaw Wall sign, but instead this! Just incase anyone else walks by this as many times as we did trying to find the wall :)
The center of Outlaw Wall. The four main routes go up the middle here.
[Hide Photo] The center of Outlaw Wall. The four main routes go up the middle here.
Outlaw wall is circled in red.
[Hide Photo] Outlaw wall is circled in red.

Comments [Hide ALL Comments]

Stephen Alex Troxel
Seattle, WA
[Hide Comment] Some excellent moderate routes here. By far the longest routes in the whole park. At least one trad route and probably five sport routes (if not more). Check em out! Sep 11, 2019
j Leend
[Hide Comment] Routes right to left. Starting on the halway ledge, expandable doubt 11. Keith Wallace.
From the bottom from here.
Greybeard. 10. Steve York
Wallflower. 8. Rob Merkle
Dali Lama. 9? Tr only for now. Scott Lewis
Just a Tease. 9. Mike Murray
Dharma Bums 7. Trad
K27. 9. Sport. High first clip but the moves are good.
Ronin. 10+. 4 bolts to L/o. Lind
Variety Pack 7 1 bolt and slings on chockstones at crux. Steve York.

Lots of room for new routes. Worth the walk. Substained and long. Not your typical q'emiln experience. Oct 7, 2019
Eric Williams
Coeur d'Alene, ID
[Hide Comment] Awesome wall, with long moderate routes! Oct 28, 2019
Jud Ford
[Hide Comment] As of May, 2020 the trail signs for Newfound Wall and Outlaw Wall are reversed from what is on the map and what is posted here. Currently the trail that goes to this wall has a Newfound Wall sign at the top. By following that trail you will arrive at the climbs described on this page. The trail signs for Outlaw Wall.will take you to the location that is marked as Newfound Wall on the map. That trail is closer to Lower Fifth. May 27, 2020
DamonV
[Hide Comment] How long is the approach, roughly? Jun 18, 2021
Jim Carlson
Moscow, ID
[Hide Comment] I did a route here back in about 1995, I called it Kinnickinnick and thought it about 5.9. It was pretty runout though, and it depended upon some gear in horizontal cracks, as well as a few bolts. I wonder if it was ever retrobolted and renamed. It ended in a notch at the top. Feb 9, 2022
Carol Smucker
Spokane, WA
[Hide Comment] This wall is now a fine destination with good bolting, long, aesthetic climbs, and solid anchors. Approach is about 30 minutes. To reach the top of the crag, follow the purple trail from the parking lot main trail closest to the entrance kiosk. You will make several turns but they are marked. There is a bit of rock scrambling but the trail is obvious. When you have been walking for about 25 minutes, you will head up a series of slopes ever upward and slightly to the left, passing several large rock pile cairns. When you reach the top cairn, cut away from the trail to the right to the cliff edge. Most of the anchors are accessible here. To go to the bottom, head to hiker's right (climber's left) and down to a notch/saddle, then work your way down and left to the base. It is shady most of the day with some direct sun mid-day. Climbs tend toward the crimpy, technical, and vertical. Jun 14, 2022