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Elevation:	5,709 ft	1,740 m
GPS:	36.04529, -104.31892 Google Map · Climbing Area Map
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Access Issue: Road Warnings! Details

Please do not drive on the roads to Mesteño Canyon when they're muddy, e.g. after a rain storm or from snow melt. These fragile grasslands two-tracks quickly become widened and rutted when driven in these conditions. When the roads are muddy the Forest Service would prefer we stick to the graveled K-600 road (Mills Canyon Rd) and boulder at the zones in the main Mills Canyon area. -

Also, please do not drive on any closed roads. The closure signs are brown carsonite flexible signs. See the map below showing the closed road and the appropriate way to drive to the Mesteño Canyon areas.

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Access Issue: RAIN AND WET ROCK: The sandstone is fragile and is can be easily damaged when recently wet. Details

Please do not climb on actively wet or recently wet sandstone. Holds more easily break off and problems will be permanently damaged. After a heavy storm, the rock can remain wet, sometimes for several days even though it may not appear wet. PLEASE DO NOT CLIMB IN ROY during or for up to 36 hours after rain/snow. A good rule of thumb is that if the ground near your climb is at all damp, then do not climb.

Description

This highball wall is one of the longer approaches in the Mesteno canyon, but worth the walk. The climbs are typically tall with slopey holds and long reaches.

Getting There

This approach is around 30 minutes and can be a bit confusing the first time. Leave the upper mesteno parking area on a trail that leaves from the road and leads due north. Follow this trail for a couple of minutes and you will hit a barbed wire fence that you step over. Continue to follow the trail and cairns until you hit a shallow wash. Cut directly across the wash to find the trail continuing west. (The trail can be difficult to find here, in general it heads to the top of the hill directly west of the wash. You can find it more easily in the fields at the top of the hill)

From here, you’ll follow the trail slightly downhill until you hit an intersection marked by two cairns. Take the leftmost trail to go to WWW. You’ll follow this trail until you hit the canyon. A cairn marks a 5th class down climb into the canyon, and the wall is directly to the left.

Before you descend the 5th class, you can head left and slightly back to find a large warmup Boulder that has a couple pretty good quality v0-v2s.