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Mambo

Name: Mambo
Rating: 2.7

5.4 YDS 4a French 12 Ewbanks IV UIAA 10 ZA VD 3c British

Routes in 2. Baldy

L › R R › L A › Z

	Ballroom T,TR 5.3 3+ 10 III 9 VD 3a
	Chute TR 5.8+ 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	Devil's Elbow TR 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
	Gunsight TR 5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c
	High Nowhere TR 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b
	High Rustler TR 5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a
	Jitterbug TR 5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b
	Mambo T,TR 5.4 4a 12 IV 10 VD 3c

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Type:	Trad, TR, 50 ft (15 m)
GPS:	41.14522, -74.16491
FA:	unknown
Page Views:	876 total · 7/month
Shared By:	kenr on Jan 1, 2016
Admins:	Morgan Patterson, SMarsh Page Updates (admin only)

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Access Issue: As of November 2021, there are new parking arrangements. Please follow this guidance. Details

The current parking area is now limited parking, subject to the following guidelines:

No parking weekdays before 4pm. (Use Saltbox Parking Area at these times).
Do not block pump station access gates at any time.
Be careful not to hit or disturb manholes or other infrastructure.

The Saltbox Parking Area is a new resource, available on weekdays and weekends. Don't bushwhack or create new trails from this area.

Torne Brook Road and the trailhead remain a no-parking area. This is to ensure access for emergency personnel.

Inconsiderate or illegal parking here could lead to permanent closure.

Description

Up the gully (or alongside it) to the left-hand crack, then up the crack to the top.
Variation: About half-way up the lower gully, move left onto the arete and up that to a puzzling move (5.6), then finish on the left-hand crack.

warning: The rock on and around this route has not been climbed much yet, and much of the rock is still breakable and loose -- so the belayer and other people should stand far away from underneath the climber.

. . . (Lots of vegetation on this rock as of 2015. Be prepared when climbing to navigate around protruding trees and branches, and dealing with holds slippery with grass, lichen, moss, dirt).

Location

Bottom of the gully which is below the left-hand one of the twin cracks on the left (west) edge of the main Baldy face.
Can be reached on Top-Rope by lowering down the obvious gully -- either after climbing up the Ballroom route, or quicker by scrambling from the main Baldy base area left (west) up and across the two sculpted shield flakes.
Or could be reached from below at Sunny Picnics area by way by the Tour des Picnics route.
Or by traversing right before the top of the Access Scramble route.

Protection

Top-Rope: Tree for top anchor with static line, can be reached by hiking and scrambling NorthEast from top of Tower Wall.

Leading: standard Trad rock, with emphasis on wide cams (#3 Camalot could be useful) and larger stoppers.