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Jul 27, 2025 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Rabbit Ears Area > Rabbit Ears Slabs Murray's Warmup 5.8 ● Description by Steve Roach: "wide, ugly-looking thing that's quite fun. Easily protected with one each of 3… View Comment
Jul 27, 2025 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Rabbit Ears Area > Citadel Sticks n Stones 5.10 ● Possibly relevant description of a route with a different name by Steve Roach: "Corner: right of Hercamer,… View Comment
Jul 27, 2025 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Rabbit Ears Area > Citadel Hercamur Snurd 5.11 PG13 ● Description by Steve Roach: "Hercamer Snerd: Pitch 1, 9+/10-. Crux is the roof. 3 bolts leading to the roof… View Comment
Jul 27, 2025 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Rabbit Ears Area > Citadel Wish You Were Here 5.9- ● Description by Steve Roach: "5.8/5.9. The original route is runout at the bottom to the dihedral (there is… View Comment
Jul 27, 2025 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Rabbit Ears Area > Citadel Glad We Came 5.9 ● Description by Steve Roach: "Glad you came: 8 or 9 bolts. Route stays close to the arête, sometimes left, s… View Comment
Jul 27, 2025 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Rabbit Ears Area > Citadel Anticipation 5.9 R ● Comment by Steve Roach: "2 bolts to the corner of arch rival, then arch rival to the top. Ignore the old ¼… View Comment
Jul 27, 2025 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Rabbit Ears Area > Citadel Arch Rival 5.9 ● Comment by Steve Roach: "5.9 Small gear in the roof to the corner. There’s a good stance at the corner to p… View Comment
Jul 27, 2025 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Rabbit Ears Area > Citadel Whole Banana 5.10 ● Comment by Steve Roach: "10b/c: 70 feet left of finger zinger (go around to the north of the slot leading t… View Comment
Jul 27, 2025 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Rabbit Ears Area > Citadel Finger Zinger 5.10a/b PG13 ● Comment by Steve Roach: "10c. Start far left of first bolt 20 feet up to right of tree. Climb to ramp, then… View Comment
Jul 27, 2025 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Rabbit Ears Area > Citadel Stem Cell Research 5.10b ● Description by Steve Roach: "5.10, wide. Single bolt low, 5” gear above, turns into wide chimney, then hand… View Comment
May 13, 2019 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > N Organs > Lambda Wicked West 5.8 PG13 ● A sizeable flake came off during a climb near the top of Pitch 1 and hit at the start of the route. It peel… View Comment
Apr 2, 2018 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Sugarloaf Area > E Slabs Dick's Delight 5.8+ R ● The route is on clean rock throughout, connecting interesting features and textures. It avoids the gradual… View Comment
Mar 27, 2017 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Needle & Square… > Organ Needle > Ingraham's Gully (Easy 5th 1+ 3 I 5 M 1c) Rough topo of the route, as viewed from the Retaining Wall. Note the hikers on Organ Needle summit. ● I is possible to continue straight up, without the detour to the right, but the exposure is significantly h… View Comment
Feb 10, 2017 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Sugarloaf Area > Sugarloaf North Face 5.7 R ● RW was not off route (he was climbing with me, generally following on the runouts). He led Pitch 7, which h… View Comment
Dec 19, 2016 Truth or Conseq… > Caballo Lake > Bat Cave Area The Barr ● The grades on the routes on the left side of the area, up to and including Same Face, Different Name AKA Si… View Comment
Dec 19, 2016 Truth or Conseq… > Caballo Lake > Bat Cave Area The Barr ● There is another route between Barrcrawl and Barrfly. It is similar in character, length, and level of diff… View Comment
Oct 12, 2016 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Sugarloaf Area > Sugarloaf > Banana Peel (5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c) Jon Tylka, again, this time leading from the left where it's more protectable. Photo Sergio Rudin. ● The small dead tree is no longer there. View Comment
Oct 12, 2016 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Sugarloaf Area > Sugarloaf Banana Peel 5.8 ● Variation of Pitch 1, done in two pitches. (In the image Jon Tylka is leading this version, but as a single… View Comment
Sep 18, 2016 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Rabbit Ears Area > ORP West Face 5.9 ● The rap line has issues, the major one being the tendency to get the rope stuck behind the chock stone near… View Comment
Sep 18, 2016 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Rabbit Ears Area Bastion Wall ● The quality of the old topo appears to be rather poor. A route shown to go sharply and far right goes right… View Comment
Sep 18, 2016 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Rabbit Ears Area > Rabbit Ears Slabs Mother's Day 5.7 ● Pitch 3 can go directly up from the tree at top of Pitch 2. Go up the head wall near the right end of doabl… View Comment
Sep 18, 2016 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > High Horns > Lost Peak South Face 5.6 ● We have rappelled off the south side with a single 60m rope. This was not enough to get us to the ground, b… View Comment
Sep 18, 2016 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Rabbit Ears Area > Citadel > W Ridge (5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b) Myself leading up our P3 (P4 on the old topo) with Zack belaying. Most pitches per the topo are half rope length, so could be easily linked, but expect lots of rope drag if you link them due to the meandering nature of the route. ● Please do NOT follow the route as pictured here. A loose block on the left makes this unsafe. See other ima… View Comment
Sep 4, 2016 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Rabbit Ears Area > N Rabbit Ear > W Face Direct (5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b) The likely topo of West Face Direct, ending where it meets up with the Davis Route, based on the old description. Someone should give this a try. ● Warning: The 5.6 rating, along with all of the topo, are based only on old records. The ratings of other ro… View Comment
Aug 20, 2016 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Rabbit Ears Area > Middle Rabbit Ear The South Face rappel off of the big tree. Tat nest includes: old rope with lichen growing on it, steel cable, rusty rap rings, a quicklink, and a biner. Bomber. We leave this nest as an historical marker, some of it probably associated with the FA party. ● According to Pat Geoannini the rope has been a part of that anchor back in early to mid 80's. What'… View Comment
Aug 16, 2016 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Rabbit Ears Area > Middle Rabbit Ear West Face 5.8 ● Alternative start of Pitch 3: From the tree instead of going up the corner start left and take the narr… View Comment
Aug 6, 2016 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > N Organs > Lambda Fun and Games 5.8 ● Alternative finish to Pitch 5 is to exit the dihedral to the right when less than half way up it. Go right… View Comment
Jul 8, 2016 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Rabbit Ears Area > Rabbit Ears Slabs Bucky Blue 5.7 ● The large tree functioning as an intermediate rap station was a juniper and it died in the big freeze in 20… View Comment
May 26, 2016 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Sugarloaf Area > E Slabs Normal Route 5.7 R ● On Pitch 3 you need to head somewhat to the right to hit the good right-facing corners. Going left does end… View Comment
Jan 6, 2016 Truth or Conseq… > Caballo Lake > Bat Cave Area Trojan Wall (Right of Bat Cave) ● We found the rock in this area decidedly chossy, or at least choosy looking (to the point of scary). This w… View Comment
Jan 1, 2016 Las Cruces Area > Dona Ana Mountains > Checkerboard Wall > Punch In The Nose (5.9- 5c 17 VI 16 HVS 4c) Connection to King Me. From the top of pitch 3 of Punch in the Nose scramble up and left up to a ledge indicated here by the yellow line. Follow the ledge to the left to the Pitch 2 belay of King Me. ● Going for the top out of King Me, as was done in days of old according to Karl Kiser, makes even more sense… View Comment
Jan 1, 2016 Las Cruces Area > Dona Ana Mountains > Checkerboard Wall > Punch In The Nose (5.9- 5c 17 VI 16 HVS 4c) The crux as viewed from the side of the "boulder." ● There are two protection opportunities before climbing the crux, under the lip as shown (red 0.1 X4) or in… View Comment
Jun 27, 2015 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > N Organs Card Deck ● Here is what I heard about climbing on the Card Deck from Karl Kiser: "Edmund Ward did most of the explorat… View Comment
May 28, 2015 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > High Horns > Wedge Normal Route 4th ● I have led the route using only a single sling, a cordelette, and one 60m half rope. This minimal equipment… View Comment
Feb 1, 2015 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > La Cueva > Sunny Side Black Streak 5.10 ● A top rope can be easily set up by scrambling over from the bolts of The Bulge. View Comment
Feb 1, 2015 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > La Cueva > Sunny Side Shortcut Scramble 4th ● If you can scramble it, which is plenty easy to do, it is a shortcut. If you are not comfortable doing that… View Comment

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