Lake Mead Buttress climbing

17 routes · 5,098 ft elevation

Access

Much of the range is the La Madre Mountain Wilderness, managed jointly by the BLM (Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area) and the Forest Service (Spring Mountains National Recreation Area). In the wilderness, no motorized vehicles or mechanized equipment, and no gluing, chipping or chiseling of the rock.

Routes

• Land Before Time 5.8+
• Bone Collector 5.9
• La Madre Flu 5.9
• Mr. Bones' Wild Ride 5.9+ X
• Lake Mead Buttress Original Route 5.9+ R
• Patient Zero 5.10a
• West Side Story 5.10a
• Contagion 5.10a/b
• Herd Immunity 5.11a
• Anti-Vax Crack 5.11a/b
• Tectonic Tango 5.11b
• Sleeper 5.11d
• Killer Nano Robot Infection 5.12a
• Mutation 5.12a/b
• Booster Shot 5.12b
• Super Spreader 35 5.12b
• Booster Direct 5.13a

Hikes, approaches and descents

• Alternative descent to single rappel, Lake Mead Buttress — Class 3
• Descent walk off Lake Mead Buttress to Buckskin Cliff Shadows — Class 2
• Approach to Lake Mead Buttress — Class 2

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