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5.7+ 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b 1,834 ● Birdland Dec 30, 2025 · 5 pitches. Lead. Climbed with Pat. I led P2 and P4. P2 had a bit of awkward offwidth. P5 has an important pocket/jug on the left side of the pedestal. Climbed with a 70m. Busy on the route. Trad 6 pitches Southern Nevada > … > Pine Creek Canyon > Brass Wall
5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c 37 ● Ten for Two Dec 30, 2025 · Lead / Flash. Climbed with Pat. Felt easier than the 8- to the right Sport Southern Nevada > … > Lone Mountain > Suburban Crag
5.8- 5b 16 VI- 14 VS 4c 30 ● TV Guide Dec 30, 2025 · Lead / Flash. Climbed with Pat. Great climb. Sport Southern Nevada > … > Lone Mountain > Suburban Crag
5.10a/b 6a+ 19 VI+ 19 E2 5b 31 ● Blu-Ray Direct Dec 30, 2025 · TR. Climbed with Pat. Great climb. Cruiser 5.8 for the bottom 7 bolts then some thoughtful balancy. Climbing on high friction small sharp holds for the final 3 bolts. Would lead. Sport Southern Nevada > … > Lone Mountain > Suburban Crag
5.9- 5c 17 VI 16 HVS 4c 19 ● Cactus in the Face Dec 30, 2025 · Lead / Flash. Climbed with Pat. Good lead. Sport Southern Nevada > … > Lone Mountain > Suburban Crag
5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b 38 ● Direct TV Dec 30, 2025 · TR. Climbed with Pat. One take on the top slab. Go right at the slab. Sport Southern Nevada > … > Lone Mountain > Suburban Crag
5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a 20 ● Glorious Kaos Dec 30, 2025 · Follow. Climbed with Pat. Followed cleanly. Short crux on small crimps over the bulge. Lead next time. Sport Southern Nevada > … > Lone Mountain > Suburban Crag
5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b 35 ● Karin's Corner Dec 30, 2025 · Lead / Flash. Climbed with Pat. Enjoyable. Sport Southern Nevada > … > Lone Mountain > Suburban Crag
5.8+ 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c 62 ● Land Before Time Dec 28, 2025 · Lead. Climbed with Pat. The rappel is lower than I remembered. Have to hike down a couple hundred feet. After the rappel return to the approach trail marked with a pick ax. The trail should be pretty visible, don't descend on the first few gullies. Sport 6 pitches Southern Nevada > La Madre Area > Lake Mead Buttress
5.10- 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a 14 ● Rocky Road Nov 7, 2025 · TR. Tough crux. had to pull on gear. The rest was much easier. Crux is well protected. Trad Southern Nevada > … 1 > Red Spring > Red Springs Rock
5.10- 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a 541 ● Cocopuss Nov 7, 2025 · TR. followed cleanly. would be a good lead. Sport Southern Nevada > … 1 > Red Spring > Coco Crag
5.8- 5b 16 VI- 14 VS 4c 190 ● Schaeffer's Delight Nov 6, 2025 · Lead. Climbed with Kevin. I led all pitches first pitch is a beautiful face / sport climb with bolts and rings. Second pitch starts out with thin holds to a bolt. Then easy climbing up a slab and low angle corner. This pitch is hard to protect. 3rd pitch continues up and right to get on top of a ledge. Go left to a corner and do a few 5.8 moves to top out. Crux protects with a small gold offset but then a .4 totem. Walk left for a dusty chossy and blocky descent. May be a better walkoff if you do the 4th pitch. Trad 3 pitches Southern Nevada > … 1 > Whiskey Peak > Whiskey Peak - East
5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c 1,545 ● Frogland Nov 6, 2025 · 1 pitch. Lead. Climbed the first pitch with Kevin. Bailed there because of slower parties ahead. Carabiner block on a 60m with two cordalettes just reached. Trad 6 pitches Southern Nevada > … 1 > Whiskey Peak > N Face
5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c 188 ● Cold September Corner Nov 5, 2025 · Follow. Climbed with Kevin. I followed. The crux roof should be done as a chimney with back on the right. Chimney out from the wall, find a jug for the left hand in front of you then spin around and find a right foot to span the gap. Some more interesting spanning above the crux. Hard for 5.8 but would lead. Trad Southern Nevada > … > Icebox Canyon > Sunnyside Crags
5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b 174 ● La Cierta Edad Nov 5, 2025 · Lead / Onsight. Climbed with Kevin. I led P1 and P5. P1 was balancy slab climbing and slightly run out. P2 starts with a wide chimney with a high first bolt then some exciting face climbing. P3 is offwidth then spanning a wide chimney. Would be hard for short people. P4 has a hard offwidth then 5.8 climbing. I fell on TR on the OW. P5 is short and 5.8. We did the single 70m rope rap with goes hard right. Traversing raps kind of sucked and two of the stations were built of tat. If doing again I would probably take two ropes to do the other rap Trad 5 pitches Southern Nevada > … > Icebox Canyon > Refrigerator Wall
5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a 62 ● Honeycomb Chimney Nov 4, 2025 · 7 pitches. Lead / Onsight. Climbed with Kevin. I led P2, 4 and 6. Would lead the final 5.9. Better to leave bags at the base. You can find an alternative / beter rap by going to the rapell for chocolate flake. To do this skip P8. At the top of 7 go right to a pine tree. From there go right again through some slots and then 100 feet of down climbing and going left to the edge of a cliff. The rap for chocolate flakes is there, out of sight, on a vertical face. Use a large block to provide a terrain belay to get to do the final exposed traverse. Trad 8 pitches Southern Nevada > … 1 > Magic Mountain > N Face
5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b 666 ● Myster Z Oct 5, 2025 · Lead / Onsight. I led pitches 1-6, Azu led 7. Fun climbing movement and relatively easy climbing but a fairly serious lead as there are a number of pretty long run outs on easy terrain. Dont hike up juniper canyon, instead head up the brushy gully that splits the face of the buttress. For p1, when you hit the cave below the squeeze chimney, step left and climb steep jugs. Belay at the back of a long slot/ledge. For p2, I didn’t see the intended belay. I climbed nearly 60m which covered most of p3. From there it was a short unroped hike up and left to a tree to the p3 anchor. P4 was a fun face and finger crack that ends to the right of a pillar with a detached boulder on top. Not as long as the guidebook says. P5 has a long runout on stemmy 5.5 terrain then a nice crack up to a ledge with a vertical chimney and massive boulder on the left. Dont go that way…instead traverse 20 feet right to a short steep black crack. Belay just above this black crack with a 60, or run it out 50 feet up the stemmy crack to a ledge with a 70. This stemmy section would be p6. P7 is a 5.4 ramble up a crack to the top. From there unrope and walk back and slightly left along slabs towards the brownstone wall then down trails slabs and boulders down juniper canyon. Trad 7 pitches Southern Nevada > … > Juniper Canyon > Jackrabbit Buttress
5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b 24 ● Glass Elevator Oct 4, 2025 · Lead / Onsight. Climbed with Azu. I led p1,3,5 she led 2&4. 45 min approach and 90 min descent. Fun adventure route with two good pitches of 5.7 and three easy pitches of 5.4 - 5.5. Would repeat if other routes in angel food wall are busy. P1 starts with a 15 foot squeeze chimney then a short ramble of 5.4 over the chalk stone and up a short step. Had to take my harness off to do the squeeze and tag it up to me along with the bags. Looked possible to do a harder 5.8? Start to the left. P2 was an easy 5.4 ramble. P3 climbs a juggy gash right of the 5.9 chimney. Good climbing on slightly dirty and sometimes fragile rock. Ends with an interesting offwidth. P4 is a easy ramble up and left to a pine tree, then move the belay around the corner to the left. P5 starts with a hard to protect bulge and some questionable rock, then turns into a stellar hand crack, can bump a 2 and 3 up the while thing. Walk left to find the descent gully. Lots of Kirens and a short rap to avoid a 5th class downclimb Trad 5 pitches Southern Nevada > … 1 > Angel Food Area > Angel Food Wall
5.4 4a 12 IV 10 VD 3c 39 ● Crackers for my Soup Oct 3, 2025 · Follow. Did a TR lap in approach shoes. Totally fine. Trad, TR Southern Nevada > … 1 2 > Moderate Mecca > Upper Tier
5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b 118 ● Chicken Gumbo Oct 3, 2025 · Lead. Felt hard for RR 5.6. Well protected and fun but kind of difficult climbing. Trad Southern Nevada > … 1 2 > Moderate Mecca > Upper Tier
5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b 189 ● Soupy Sales Oct 3, 2025 · Lead / Onsight. Fairly easy and welll protected crux to get into the crack then easy climbing Trad, TR Southern Nevada > … 1 2 > Moderate Mecca > Upper Tier
5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b 120 ● From Soup to Nuts Oct 3, 2025 · TR. Set up a TR. awkward and hard to protect start then much easier climbing. Don’t feel like I need to lead it Trad, TR Southern Nevada > … 1 2 > Moderate Mecca > Upper Tier
5.9+ 5c 17 VI 17 E1 5a 14 ● Fly From Soup to Nuts Oct 3, 2025 · TR. Set up a TR with 2s and 1s. Couldn’t figure out the first overhang moves so climbed the 5.7 to the right for 10 feet and traversed onto the face for enjoyable climbing. TR Southern Nevada > … 1 2 > Moderate Mecca > Upper Tier
5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b 1,449 ● Physical Graffiti Oct 3, 2025 · 1 pitch. Follow. Azu led p1 but it was getting late so we rapped with a 60. Trad 2 pitches Southern Nevada > … 1 > Red Spring > Riding Hood Wall
5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a 234 ● Black Track Oct 2, 2025 · Lead / Fell/Hung. Felt hard on lead. Wound up hangdogging the thin section above the offwidth. Did this as the last of 6 pitches today. Trad Southern Nevada > … > Willow Spring > Hidden Falls Wall
5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b 207 ● Go Ahead and Jump Oct 2, 2025 · Climbed to a slung tree and rapped. Didn’t do the squeeze chimney on top. Strt is. But harder than the rest. I think you cn scramble left to set up a TR on the 8.8 routes to the left. Trad Southern Nevada > … > Willow Spring > Ragged Edges Area
5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b 171 ● Ok Ok Ok! Oct 2, 2025 · Lead / Onsight. Climbed with Azu. Used 2 3s and a 4 to build an anchor in a large horizontal to TR “go ahead, ok” or Can also traverse left to the tree anchor for “go ahead and jump” Trad Southern Nevada > … > Willow Spring > Ragged Edges Area
5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a 342 ● Plan F - Early Exit Oct 2, 2025 · TR. TR using the anchor from ragged edges. 5.9+ till the last section which was 10a Trad Southern Nevada > … > Willow Spring > Ragged Edges Area
5.5 4b 13 IV+ 11 MS 4a 359 ● Tonto Oct 2, 2025 · Lead. Easy. A little run out towards the top. Can rap with 60. Trad Southern Nevada > … > Willow Spring > Ragged Edges Area
5.8 5b 16 VI- 15 HVS 4c 665 ● Ragged Edges Oct 2, 2025 · Lead. Super fun hand crack. Can TR the 10a to the left from the anchor. Trad 2 pitches Southern Nevada > … > Willow Spring > Ragged Edges Area
5.7+ 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b 48 ● Cannibal Gully Sep 3, 2025 · Lead / Onsight. Climbed with Sneha. She led p1 which is an awkward low angle offwidth where it would be good to have 2 4s or a 4 and 5. She struggled quite a bit. I led p2 and p3. For p2 you climb up flakes to a small ledge on the left wall (not the dirty gully immediately left of the chains) to a bolt. At the bolt pull on an under cling (right hand) and crimp (left hand) to mantle up to a slab. Look for tiny feet and trust the hollow handholds. For p3 I did the 5.6 variation which was fine. Should have saved a 4 for the offwidth section near the top. Next time try the 5.7 variation. Trad 3 pitches Lake Tahoe > … 1 > Black Wall > 1. Black Wall - Left
5.6 4c 14 V 12 S 4b 271 ● Composure Sep 3, 2025 · Lead / Onsight. What a great 5.6. Great crack and face climbing with protection everywhere. Trad Lake Tahoe > … 1 2 > N Face > 2. Gully - Left Side
5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b 863 ● Surrealistic Pillar Sep 2, 2025 · 1 pitch. Lead / Flash. Climbed with Sneha. Began to rain so we rapped from P1 anchor on direct start. That anchor is 5 feet left of the thin hands crack and 10-15 feet below the trad anchor for the regular start. Trad 3 pitches Lake Tahoe > … > Lover's Leap > Lower Buttress
5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b 1,446 ● Corrugation Corner Sep 2, 2025 · Lead / Flash. Climbed with Sneha. I led P2 Trad 3 pitches Lake Tahoe > … 1 2 > Main Wall > Main Wall
5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b 354 ● Pop Bottle Sep 1, 2025 · Lead / Flash. Climbed with Sneha. She led p1 and 3. Trad 3 pitches Lake Tahoe > … 1 > Main Formation > E Wall
5.7 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b 354 ● Pop Bottle Sep 1, 2025 · Lead / Flash. Climbed with Sneha. I led p2 Trad 3 pitches Lake Tahoe > … 1 > Main Formation > E Wall

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Southern Nevada > … > Pine Creek Canyon > Brass Wall

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5.7+ 5a 15 V+ 13 MVS 4b Trad 6 pitches

Dec 30, 2025 · 5 pitches. Lead. Climbed with Pat. I led P2 and P4. P2 had a bit of awkward offwidth. P5 has an important pocket/jug on the left side of the pedestal. Climbed with a 70m. Busy on the route.

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