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5.12a sport · 4 pitches · 440 ft · 14 bolts · ★★★☆
Lake Mead Buttress has 17 routes, from 5.8+ to 5.13a; 4 are harder.
First ascent: Annie Ashenfelter, Thomas Gilmore, and Gary Newmeyer, Apr 2024
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
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.
More routes on Lake Mead Buttress
- Mr. Bones' Wild Ride 5.9+ X
- Bone Collector 5.9
- Contagion 5.10a/b
- Lake Mead Buttress Original Route 5.9+ R
- Anti-Vax Crack 5.11a/b
- Booster Direct 5.13a
- Booster Shot 5.12b
- Herd Immunity 5.11a
- La Madre Flu 5.9
- Land Before Time 5.8+
- Mutation 5.12a/b
- Patient Zero 5.10a
- Sleeper 5.11d
- Super Spreader 35 5.12b
- Tectonic Tango 5.11b
- West Side Story 5.10a