Red Rock Rendezvous Crag List - 2018

Registration is now open for Red Rock Rendezvous, which will be held March 16 - 19, 2018. Every year the information regarding crags to be used seems to get posted a little later than ideal, so in attempt to get ahead of the curve I am posting the crags which were used in 2017 right now. As new walls develop, this list will adjust slightly, however if you are looking for a general list, this is a great start to know which crags RRR participants and instructors will be at on which days. In early March, please feel free to bump this post and a more concrete list will be posted.

Friday - Sunday, 3/16 - 3/18:

Lotta Balls Wall
First Creek Slabs
Kraft Boulders
Moderate Mecca
Cannibal Crag
Riding Hood Wall
Dickies Cliff
Gnat Man Crag
Jabba the Hut
Hide and Seek
Reptile Rock
Cowlick Crag
Cut Your Teeth
The Fox
Happy Acres
Existential Wall
Iron Man Wall
Fixx Cliff
The Oasis
The Aquifer
Tuna and Chips
Scramblers Wall
Hamlet
Newcastle Crag
Ultraman
Viagra Tower
Civilization Crag
Amusement Park
The Slab
Dog Wall
Wall of Death
Magic Bus
Black Corridor
USS Crag
Meet-Up Wall
Hunter S. Thompson
Front Slab
Wake-Up Wall
Chrysler Crack
Outhouse Wall
Black Track Area
Ragged Edges
Case Face
Running Man Wall
Mass Production Wall
Winston's Wall (Man's Best Friend)

Monday 3/19:

Magic Bus
Wake Up Wall
Dog Wall
Ragged Edges
Jabba the Hut
Hide and Seek
Gnat Man
Dickies Cliff
Existential Wall
Moderate Mecca

Please note: RRR participants and instructors have no more (and no less) right to be at the crag than you, the general public. They have all been instructed to work alongside other climbers at the crag, and none of these crags are 'reserved.' If you want to get on a climb, please approach anyone in the group and ask who the instructor is, and then ask if you can have a turn. Basically, do what you would do any other time you want to climb something and people are already on it. The instructors will do their best to accommodate other climbers, and make sure they do not have a monopoly on the crag/climbs all day. If you feel like an instructor is being rude or unwilling to climb alongside you, please try to get their name and let Jason Martin (jason@alpineinstitute.com) or myself (andrew@alpineinstitute.com) know and we will address it. We truly want to share the crag as best as possible, but we need you to approach us and at least give us a chance to get off routes, instead of silently and angrily walking away from a crag without talking to anyone.

Any questions you have, or comments, may as well start the thread now. I'm definitely interested in constructive feedback, because there is enough time now to improve/make changes that would improve the event for both participants and general public.

I think it might be easier to post a list of areas that you won't be using. Cross referencing that list might take a while.

Definitely a weekend to get out of town.  I could do without this circus coming to town.  We have plenty of those on the Strip.

Do you guys have the list out for 2019 yet?  Trying to plan ahead.

Addem Bursh wrote:

Do you guys have the list out for 2019 yet?  Trying to plan ahead.

And so it begins...the annual bashing of the RRR. Loving this already!

It's fine for people who want to come from out of town.  Not so much for locals.

Save Red Rock Canyon. Stop the Rendezvous!

Maybe they can move it to, I don't know, say, Boulder for a year or two??

Thanks for posting, Andrew. Thoughtful.

John Hegyes wrote:

Save Red Rock Canyon. Stop the Rendezvous!

Maybe they can move it to, I don't know, say, Boulder for a year or two??

Boulder has shitty climbing. I'd recommend the Gunks.

Adventure Chumps wrote: I think it might be easier to post a list of areas that you won't be using. Cross referencing that list might take a while.

As requested, here is a list of crags we won't be using that weekend.

Black Velvet Wall (21)
Burlap Buttress (11)
Corduroy Ridge (1)
Monument, The (11)
Rad Cliff, The (12)
Texas Wall / West Velvet Wall, The (13)
Western Spaces Wall (8)
Whiskey Peak (27)
Whiskey Peak - East (7)

Afterburner Wall (1)
Blood Wall (7)
Cactus Flower Tower Summit (5)
League of Notions Area (1)
Oakey Buttress (5)
Triad, The (7)

Alcohol Wall (5)
First Creek Slabs (14)
Labyrinth Wall (6)
Mudterm Area (8)
Schoolyard, The (12)
Slippery Buttress (4)
Slippery Peak (3)
Slot Club Wall (4)
Strawberry Hill Buttress (8)

Bridge Mountain (1)
Buffalo Wall (1)
Cauldron Wall (2)
Creature Feature Area (3)
Frigid Air Buttress (6)
Frigid Air Buttress Boulders (3)
Hidden Wall (1)
Necromancer Wall (7)
North Eastern Buttress of Bridge Mountain (2)
Refrigerator Wall (11)
Smears for Fears Area (4)
Sunnyside Crags (18)
Tango Towers (1)
Tiki Cliff (1)
Upper Sunnyside Crag (3)

Aquarium Wall (4)
Brownstone Wall (21)
Cloud Tower (12)
Ginger Buttress (10)
Jackrabbit Buttress (23)
Jungle Wall (11)
Luxor Wall (3)
North Face of Rainbow Mountain (2)
Rainbow Wall, The (6)
Rose Tower (9)
Tattle Tale Gully (2)
Tree Hugger Buttress (1)

Aeolian Wall (8)
Basin Wall (2)
Horseshoe Wall (8)
Mass Extinction Block (2)

Black Orpheus Amphitheater (10)
Eagle Wall (7)
Friar and Byrd Pinnacle, The (16)
Oak Creek Canyon Bouldering (3)
Rainbow Mountain - East Face  (7)
Silly Patch Boulders (7)
Solar Slab - Lower Tier (11)
Solar Slab - Upper Tier (9)
South Fork - Oak Creek (1)
Upper Oak Creek Canyon (3)
Upper Painted Bowl (1)

Beer and Ice Gully (2)
Brass Wall (36)
Bullnose Wall (5)
Challenger Wall (10)
Crabby Appleton Area (1)
Eagles Nest (2)
Flight Path Area (12)
Fractional Wall (2)
Gemstone Gully (4)
Hog Wart, The (4)
Jet Stream Wall (7)
Little Joe (3)
Magic Mountain (19)
Magic Mountain - East (3)
Mescalito (42)
Out of Control Area (5)
Paiute Wall, The (1)
Pisces Wall (0)
Right of Flight Path Area (2)
Stick Gully (25)
Straight Shooter Wall (10)

Chocolate Rocks (10)
Disappearing Buttress (9)
Illusion Crags (14)

Angel Food Wall (16)
Ledger Crags, The (3)
Sheep Skull Crags (5)
Space Oddity (4)
White Rock Spring North and the Enclaves (2)
Ziggy Stardust (2)

East Face (11) - Windy Peak
South Face (12) - Windy Peak
Windy Canyon Bouldering (18)

Asylum, the (3)
Avian Wall (2)
Beach, The (2)
Blister in the Sun (1)
Boy Scout Cliff (1)
Broast and Toast Wall (3)
Bull Market (1)
California Crag (6)
Common Time (1)
Front Corridor (18)
Grindhouse, The (6)
Hall of Fame (8)
Hidden Corridor (6)
Holiday Wall (10)
James Brown Area (3)
Monstro's Gaping Maw (5)
Numbers Crag, The (5)
Pier, The (14)
Propane Tank Boulder, The (2)
Salt Factory, The (2)
Sandy Corridor (6)
Satellite Wall, The (2)
Secret 13 Wall, The (13)
Sonic Youth Cliff (11)
Trophy Wall, The (13)
Vaya con Queso (5)
Walrus, The (6)
White Slab (4)

Black Hole, The (4)
Bowling Ball Wall (1)
Chasm, The (4)
Circus Wall (13)
Climb Bandits Area (1)
Dante's Wall (10)
Fixx Cliff (17)
Ghost Wall (4)
Great Red Roof Area (2)
Jessica's Wall (7)
Meat Puppets Wall (5)
Panty Wall (24)
Save It For A Rainy Day (1)
Shipwreck, The (3)
Universal City (5)
Velvet Elvis and The Climb Bomb (7)

Arena, The (1)
California 12a (6)
Ethics Wall (2)
Gallery, The (20)
Great Red Book Area, The (12)
Janes Wall (13)
Kitty Crag (3)
Meister's Edge (4)
Observatory, The (1)
Pet Rock (4)
Rescue Wall (2)
Sandbox, The (6)
Second Pullout Bouldering (6)
Stone Wall (8)
Stratocaster Area (19)
Sun City (1)
Sweet Pain Wall (12)
Trundle Wall (6)
Tsunami Wall (12)
Wall of Confusion (11)

Children's Crag (8)
Gold Digger Slab (1)
Goodman Peak (1)
Graduate Cliff (4)
Hidden Falls Wall (9)
Lost And Found Crag (7)
Mossy Ledges Area (16)
Mother's Crag (5)
Owl, The (3)
Red Rock Wash (2)
Smitty's Caterpillar (2)
Sumo Greatness Slab (3)
Willow Springs Bouldering (25)
Willow Springs South (19)

Alternative Crag (9)
Back Forty, The (5)
Black Wall (aka Happy Acres) (10)
Burns Wall (4)
Caligula Crag (1)
Cannabis Crag (10)
Church, The (1)
Coco Crag (9)
Conundrum Crag (9)
Family Crag (4)
Fringe, The (20)
Gateway Crag (2)
Kraft Crags (5)
Little Springs Crag (10)
Mall, The (4)
Meyer's Cracks (2)
Owl's Den, The (8)
Playground, The (10)
Ranch Hands Crag (10)
Red Springs Rock (13)
Shit Howdy (4)
Strategic Arms Wall (13)
Sunny and Steep (17)
West Shoulder of Kraft Mountain (21)
Winter Heat Wall (9)
Yin and Yang Cliff (10)

[edit - removed a crag]

Riding Hood Wall is both on the list of use and not use. Trying to plan ahead. 

Forever Outside wrote:

Riding Hood Wall is both on the list of use and not use. Trying to plan ahead. 

Thanks for finding that, my mistake. I believe however that we will not be climbing physical graffiti and big bad wolf, the two most popular climbs on that wall, just simply using the area below those climbs for skills. I will confirm that with the organizers, but for now I’ve gone ahead and removed it from the “not in use” list.

Thanks for sharing, Andrew. I've overlapped with the RRR more than once and have never had trouble finding something to climb. I'm not a local, so I don't really get a vote, but I feel it's easy enough to coexist. I don't really have expectations of a solitude experience when stopping at RR.

Zachary Winters wrote:

Thanks for sharing, Andrew. I've overlapped with the RRR more than once and have never had trouble finding something to climb. I'm not a local, so I don't really get a vote, but I feel it's easy enough to coexist. I don't really have expectations of a solitude experience when stopping at RR.

No problem Zach, thanks for your positive words. I would argue that you and every U.S. Citizen gets a vote, seeing as Red Rock is National land - it is all of ours. I am a local, and perhaps I care/understand a little more about the issues Red Rock faces, but I don't deserve it any more than you do. Living in a town (Las Vegas) with an economy entirely dominated by tourism you learn to share.

Bump

Thanks for the bump Jason. If anyone is looking to get out climbing that weekend and wants help finding a spot where the Rendezvous isn't, please feel free to message me and I'll take some time to talk about your objectives and hopefully I can direct you accordingly. Keep in mind that we don't own the crags listed above, and we know we don't own those crags, so our goal is to work with you if you're definitely going to one of those walls.

Mark Says wrote:

Boulder has shitty climbing. I'd recommend the Gunks.

Please keep this circus away from the Gunks. It's already turned into an outdoor gym. 

Bump

Wheredafuq is The Aquifer?

...randy, always asking questions 

Randy, the Aquifer is to the right (east) of Tuna and Chips wall, just past the entrance to the Oasis, up in a slot canyon.