All Locations > Oklahoma > Wichita Mountai… > Mt Scott > Jazz Workshop

Max Roach Bouldering

Climbing Area Map

Routes in Max Roach

L › R R › L A › Z

Freedom Now V3+ 6A+

Order Wrong? Sort Routes

Explore this area in 3D

Use onX Backcountry to explore the terrain in 3D, view recent satellite imagery, and more. Now available in onX Backcountry Mobile apps! For more information see this post.

Elevation:	1,688 ft	515 m
GPS:	34.74593, -98.52454 Google Map · Climbing Area Map
Page Views:	696 total · 12/month
Shared By:	Miles Johnson on Jan 10, 2021
Admins:	Ryan Sheldon, Drew Nevius, Kevin Diaz Page Updates (admin only)

See Weather Forecast

Access Issue: Access is always an issue here. Details

Please do not litter and observe all regulations. We had to fight to regain access at one time, and we don't want to lose the privilege again. Local ethics and refuge regulations are that no bolting is permitted unless expressly authorized by the park. Leave the hammer and nails at home, no fixed gear please. Everything will go clean.

Description

Max Roach chills just 30' south of Charles Mingus. Leave Mingus and walk SSE. Look down and to the right and you will see an overhanging lowball with an obvious jug starting hold and sharp rails. : ) You can see Charles Mingus in the area picture. He's the big mean looking one.

Get your rhythm and figure out this little puzzle. A few ways Go but one beta will make it a bit less powerful than the others.

Getting There

Park at LMS and head down to the crag. Follow the wall to the south for 270 yds and pass a talus slope with vines. Continue and notice the rock size increasing and features showing up. Follow the animal trails to a cave overhang and a ramp that leads to Thelonious Monk in 5’ and then 10’ south of that rock you will see The Jazz Workshop founder, Charles Mingus.

A more direct approach is to park at LMS and walk downhill to where the next guardrail starts. Count 7 posts and jump the rail. There should be a drainage culvert there. Scramble downhill and you should end up in the viney talus slope or just south of it. Continue south a few minutes and you will find The Jazz Workshop.

On either approach if you look east to the lake you will see a cove with a sandbar extending from its northern shore. If that northern shore is south of you, you are north of Mingus. If it is north of you you are south of Mingus. If it is directly even with you and mount scott you’re right there.

To Max Roach: Head southeast from Charles Mingus one boulder and look down and right. There is an overhanging lowball whose cave faces SE with a sharp and very positive jug starting hold. This is Max Roach.