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Jan 28, 2015 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > La Cueva > Sunny Side Welcome to Las Cruces 5.5 ● If soloing the route, you can skip the steep, pocketed face and walk behind the formation for an easy step-… View Comment
Jun 18, 2014 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Rabbit Ears Area > Middle Rabbit Ear West Face 5.8 ● Bail option: If you were to set up your rap anchor at the Pitch 3 belay, two 60m ropes would take you to th… View Comment
May 22, 2014 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Rabbit Ears Area > Middle Rabbit Ear West Face 5.8 ● The original rap line on the south to Normal Route was set up for a single 60m back in the day. However, th… View Comment
May 4, 2014 Las Cruces Area > Dona Ana Mountains > Checkerboard Wall Knight's Move 5.8 ● An alternative Pitch 3 is to go right from P2 belay, traversing on a rounded boulder, and take the next chi… View Comment
Apr 5, 2014 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > High Horns > Wedge The West Ridge 5.7 ● The top, difficult part of the slab on Pitch 4 can be completely avoided by going left at the last pro plac… View Comment
Mar 22, 2014 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Low Horns > Gertch Gertch's Folly 5.9- ● West side deproach: follow the ridge line of Gertch practically all the way to Low Horn 1. Drop down on the… View Comment
Jan 27, 2014 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > N Organs > Lambda Lambda Wall West Face ● We have tried to follow this pair of topos with some diligence and found them less than reliable. The lines… View Comment
Jan 27, 2014 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > N Organs > Lambda Lambda Wall South Face ● We have tried to follow this pair of topos with some diligence and found them less than reliable. The lines… View Comment
Jan 22, 2014 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > N Organs > Lambda If I Only 5.9+ ● This route was originally posted under the name "Bastard," which we took from an old topo of the Lambda Wal… View Comment
Jan 14, 2014 Las Cruces Area > Dona Ana Mountains > Checkerboard Wall Cross-trainer 5.7 ● Many thanks to Pat Gioannini (climber pat) for spending his Christmas Eve doing the re-bolting this route s… View Comment
Jan 12, 2014 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Low Horns > Gertch Gertch's Folly 5.9- ● For more information and photos you can check out adifferentkindofparadise.wo… courtesy of Dan Car… View Comment
Jan 12, 2014 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Rabbit Ears Area > Southern Comfort Wall Lowenbrau Light 5.7+ ● Looking for a warmup? Lowenbrau Light is a good climb, but with its crux start it does not provide an ideal… View Comment
Jan 10, 2014 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > N Organs > Lambda West Face 5.7+ ● Approach: Turn off the regular trail to Lambda Wall above the large tree and traverse left on easy but feat… View Comment
Jan 1, 2014 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Low Horns > Gertch Gertch's Folly 5.9- ● West side approach: More painful, but definitely far less strenuous and shorter in terms of both distance a… View Comment
Jan 1, 2014 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > N Organs > Lambda Yellow Brick Road 5.7+ ● We have tried to follow the topo for Yellow Brick Road. The first pitch is basically a dirty fourth class,… View Comment
Dec 28, 2013 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Needle & Square… > Organ Needle Normal Route 3rd ● The trail has been over-used. Instead of following cairns, you now scramble up loose debris in a trough dug… View Comment
Dec 24, 2013 Las Cruces Area > … > S Organs > Pena Blanca > Garden > First Pillar 5.7 crack / face 5.5 ● The first bolt you come to is not part of the anchor. Continue few feet south to a pair of bolts. Bring sli… View Comment
Dec 17, 2013 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Low Horns > Gertch Gertch's Folly 5.9- ● A way to avoid the hanging belay, along with the possibility of loose rocks hitting said belay: (As descri… View Comment
Dec 17, 2013 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Rabbit Ears Area > Southern Comfort Wall Margaritaville 5.9 ● Charlie Cundiff's rating on his topo is 5.9+. I'd say the crux (going straight up, I didn't see another way… View Comment
Dec 17, 2013 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Low Horns > Gertch Gertch's Folly 5.9- ● East side approach: Go up the north fork of the Pine Tree Trail up to a gully with a short, thick, black lo… View Comment
Nov 29, 2013 Las Cruces Area > Dona Ana Mountains > Checkerboard Wall Ring Route 5.9 ● As best I can tell this is the same as the finish of King Me. If somebody knows better, please straighten m… View Comment
Nov 24, 2013 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Rabbit Ears Area > N Rabbit Ear Boyer's Chute 5.4 ● I found a "variation" listed in the NMSU-archived documents of the Southwest Mountaineers. It's classified… View Comment
Nov 5, 2013 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Sugarloaf Area > Sugarloaf > Flea Tree (5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b) WSW face. Flea Tree easily visible. ● I believe the dihedral you take to the Flea Tree is actually not visible. The obvious crack leading toward… View Comment
Nov 4, 2013 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Sugarloaf Area > Sugarloaf Flea Tree 5.7 ● There are some loose rocks on the bottom two pitches, as well as on the start of Pitch 4, occasionally siza… View Comment
Nov 1, 2013 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Sugarloaf Area Sugarloaf ● For more information on the Normal Route you can go to summitpost.org/forget-about… or web.nmsu.ed… View Comment
Oct 28, 2013 Las Cruces Area > Dona Ana Mountains > Checkerboard Wall King Me 5.8+ PG13 ● Guide to the slab version: Approach as for Cross-trainer, going left on the slabby ground below it. Leav… View Comment
Oct 17, 2013 Las Cruces Area > Dona Ana Mountains > Checkerboard Wall King Me 5.8+ PG13 ● The full-slab version of the route is great - not just pitch 1, but the full 200-foot pitch 2, which goes f… View Comment
Oct 8, 2013 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Rabbit Ears Area > Citadel Stem Cell Research 5.10b ● I have rapped off the Finger Zinger bolts on a single 70m rope. View Comment
Oct 6, 2013 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Needle & Square… > Retaining Wall North Face, Hummingbird Saddle Route 5.4 ● Continuing to the right after avoiding the roof all the way up makes the route about twice as long but not… View Comment
Sep 17, 2013 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains The Low Horns ● Low Horn 6 can also be scrambled, but again some climbers will choose to rope up. Doing all six Low Horns i… View Comment
Aug 28, 2013 Las Cruces Area > Dona Ana Mountains > Checkerboard Wall Punch In The Nose 5.9- ● Alternative start: The route can be started directly from the slab to the left of start of Cross-traine… View Comment
Aug 9, 2013 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > S Organs > Achenbach Canyon Easy Street 5.6 ● I agree with the bomb rating. Not only the route, but the entire area should be avoided on account of poor… View Comment
Jul 28, 2013 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > N Organs > Lambda Yellow Brick Road 5.7+ ● "Wizard Road" - starting with Wizard of Ooze and continuing on Yellow Brick Road. A quality route (and acco… View Comment
Jul 28, 2013 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > N Organs > Lambda Wizard of Ooze 5.7+ ● The thirds pitch is on some of the chossiest rock I have seen anywhere in the Organs and I would avoid it.… View Comment
Jul 26, 2013 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Rabbit Ears Area > Citadel Murray's Crack 5.8 ● The top-rope can be set up where Murray's crack reaches the wide ledge at the top of the first pitch of the… View Comment
Jul 26, 2013 Las Cruces Area > Organ Mountains > Rabbit Ears Area > Citadel Clem's Folly 5.7+ ● Pitch 1 can be profitably split in two by stopping on a ledge at the base of the dihedral. (The bush with s… View Comment

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