Lake Mead Buttress Original Route
5.9+ R trad · 4 pitches · 800 ft · ★☆☆☆
Lake Mead Buttress has 17 routes, from 5.8+ to 5.13a; 12 are harder, and 1 other is the same grade.
First ascent: Dan Briley and Andrew Fulton, Mar 1997
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
- Anti-Vax Crack 5.11a/b
- Booster Direct 5.13a
- Booster Shot 5.12b
- Herd Immunity 5.11a
- Killer Nano Robot Infection 5.12a
- 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