La Madre Flu
5.9 sport · 80 ft · ★★☆☆
Lake Mead Buttress has 17 routes, from 5.8+ to 5.13a; 14 are harder, and 1 other is the same grade.
First ascent: Thomas Gilmore and Josh Diggs
Description
This is a single pitch climb to the right of the first pitch of Land Before Time. This pitch can serve as an approach pitch to any of the ledge routes or be a stand alone pitch. Quality gray limestone similar to the rest of LMB. The anchors are set for rappel so either lower/rappel or continue on to another route.
Location
From the Base of Contagion, continue left past a short scramble to the prow, continue past the prow to your left and follow along the base of the wall to an obvious gully with 2 bolted routes to the right of the gully. La Madre Flu is the right most (first line encountered) and Land Before time is the left route which starts at an obvious crack feature.
Protection
bolts
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
- Killer Nano Robot Infection 5.12a
- 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