A demanding opening boulder problem with downright horrible feet but juggy underclings, trends right and then you're rewarded with amazing blue colonnettes and pumpy, steep jugs to the summit. A really nice pitch if you don't mind the start.

Smite By The Gun

The Sacred and Profane

Crown of Thorns

Confrontation

Truth or Dare

Revelation Space

Zeal For Zion

Day One

Hieroglyphic Prophesy

The Promised Warm Up

The Burning Bush

Spectrum

Wandering in the Wilderness

Fistful of Dreadlocks

Smite by the Sword

Under the Gun

A nice little pitch with some tough pulls on a variety of pockets. Be prepared to mono on this sucker. Great movement on nice stone.

A proud line that takes the middle of the cave to the very top.

Crown of Thorns adds a natural finish and another 30ft of steep power endurance climbing to the top of Day One. Climb Day One to the jug at the base of the large roof. Get as much back as possible, then climb slightly left through a difficult undercling boulder problem to access a horn. From the horn, move back right through another difficult undercling section to finish with a delicate slab move before the chains. 

  Crown of Thorns was originally bolted and abandoned in 2001 and just recently saw a first ascent.

This is the third route from the left and a crag classic. Start up a white slab on small exfoliating holds to a decent pod. From the pod climb up and right and then move back left to arrive at the right side of the black and blue streaks. Continue up the streak on amazingly solid and sustained holds.

More like a long boulder problem really, Truth or Dare crimps and edges up a beautiful albeit short buttress just to the right of the brown slab that leads to the upper ramp. Short and punchy without much of a rest and a tough boulder problem guarding the chains.

Start in the same spot as Fist full and Day 1. Clip the bolt to the left. Climb through tufa pinches to the first crux, rest, then dive into the roof and navigate well spaced tufas and jugs. The Anchors are in the second brown roof. This route transects Smite by The Sword and could be done as a link up into The Sacred and Profane. 

 This was an abandoned project from the early 2000's.

Starts left of Confrontation on some blocky features. This line takes the smaller grey/blue streak through a series of small holds, a few pockets and tricky, slopey side pulls.

Wander up a drippy slab and through some incredibly featured rock on this wicked climb. The difficulty slowly increases as you head towards the chains, ending with a crux just below the finish. Underclings, sidepulls, and very few flat holds make this an interesting and engaging pitch. Solid for the grade and a great power endurance test-piece.  

  Older topos list this route ending up and right at an anchor in the roof - recently the trend has been to clip the chain draw from the jug, before the start of 'Crown of Thorns' and call it good.

This is the last route on the far left of the main cave. Start on a easy slab for the first three bolts then climb your way through two classic bouldery sequences. Then crimp your way to the top. This route is steeper than it appears. This was an abandoned project from the late 90s.

A nice warm up for the crag, and depending on what season you're up there - it will be a WARM up no doubt (read: gets a lot of sun). Follow a series of flakes and edges up some blue streaked stone. Very enjoyable.

Some historians have suggested Moses was smoking Acacia leaves which contain DMT. And thus saw God, not in the burning bush, but "through it." Climb the easy slab on tufas directly in front of the small pine tree. Then bust into the steepness with an in your face boulder problem. The route remains thuggy but the holds get better. Clip the anchor in the middle of the wall off a proper jug flake. 

 This was an abandoned project from the late 90s.

A unique slab on drippy, cake white and smooth limestone into a pumpy series of movement through better holds which lands you at the routes main rest just below the crux.

This is a fun route that is a bit tricky to read - probably due to lack of traffic. The climb takes the leftmost line of bolts off the ramp to an anchor in the highest roof. Begin by scrambling up the ramp via the fixed line and have your belayer perch on the first level spot you come to - perhaps best to have him/her clip in to the lone cold-shut bolt for safety. Either stick clip the first bolt and climb directly up, or traverse in from the right clipping an off-route bolt then back-cleaning once the first bolt is clipped. Some steep pulls lead to a reachy move left to a hidden jug. Work up and left to a rest, then move back right past some tricky moves and a few nice drip features and pockets.

Begin as you would for it's neighbor 'Day One' but bust rightward after the second bolt. Climb through a series of underclings and long moves through the first bulge crux, and then fight the pump on generally good and altogether amazing drip features to the chains.

Climb the wall left of center to a right-ward rising traverse to the first anchor. Continue to the higher anchor

This crag is not for the faint of heart. The approach is replete with a rough dirt road and a 1hr hike up hill. If that sounds like fun then you will be well rewarded with some of the best limestone tufa pullin' in the country. 

  The Promised Land is climbable all year. During the winter the wall gets sun until around 2:30. Plan on climbing in the sun if it's below 60 in Vegas. Plan on climbing in the shade if it's above 65 in Vegas. During the hotter months the sun is high enough in the sky that most of the wall is in the shade all day, however, the hike up can be brutal. It is usually breezy and cool in the shade so bring something warm for when you're not climbing. 

  Typically there is nobody else at the wall. If you're tired of the crowds at Red Rocks, you don't mind hiking, and you are interested in climbing 5.12 - 5.14 then this crag is a really great option.

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