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Card Deck Rock Climbing

Climbing Area Map

Areas in Card Deck

Ace's Face 2 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 2

Hole Card 1 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 1

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Elevation:	6,205 ft
GPS:	32.3718, -106.59013 Google Map · Climbing Area Map
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Description

The best portion - the north face, including Ace's Face - is a north to northwest facing wall about 500 feet high and about as wide. Its good rock quality and consistent, high angle would make it a classic, if it only were easier to get to.

Sandwiched between the north face of the Card Deck and the Lambda Wall, are rock ridges of lesser size and usually lower quality.

Getting There

Go to the base of the Lambda Wall and then traverse left as if going to West Face of Lambda but continue left (and drop some) past three large gullies, going up the fourth one. (There is a cairn there near the base of the gully.) The approach takes about 2 and half hours from the car, and from the Lambda Wall onward it is a pure bushwhack over rocky, steep, and unfortunately vegetated terrain. It's not quite the nightmare of a pure stand of cat claw or cactus, but it's not easy.

The original approach was from the north. Today, one could probably go cross country from the parking lot at Baylor Pass Trail, but this remains to be tested and is not recommended without large clippers to deal with the cat claw.