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// Rock climbing · California

Climbing at Forty Nine Palms Oasis Area

13 routes on 4 walls, 5.5–5.11d. In California. When the rock grips hour by hour, topos and people to climb with, in the app.

Routes
13
Walls
4
Grades
5.5–5.11d
Rock
Granodiorite
Style
Trad · Sport
Best season (estimated)
March–May · September–November
// The grades

What grades are there?

Routes by grade

From 5.5 to 5.11d. Half are between 5.7 and 5.9.

Each climb counts at its grade; ungraded ones are left out. In the app you can switch to French, UIAA, British or Font grades.

// The walls

Sun and shade

Mostly north-facing: shade for most of the day. A summer crag; cold in winter.

North2 sectorsNortheast0 sectorsEast0 sectorsSoutheast0 sectorsSouth1 sectorSouthwest0 sectorsWest0 sectorsNorthwest0 sectors

Estimated best season: March–May · September–November. Worked out from each wall's aspect and the latitude; the app fine-tunes it with what climbers log.

Friction ScoreHow the rock grips, hour by hour and wall by wall. In the app, for every crag on the map. See it in the app →ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE

// Walls

The 4 walls

ASPECT · GRADES · ROUTES
01Parking Lot RocksN · 348° · 5.5–5.97 routes
02Hillside CragsS · 181° · 5.7–5.10c3 routes
03Transcendence CliffN · 355° · 5.9–5.11d2 routes
04Mother of All Spires Area5.91 route

Route names, topos and approaches are in the app.

// Where it is

On the map

// Nearby

Crags nearby

// The Friction Score for every crag

Climb more. Guess less.

When the rock grips, hour by hour and wall by wall; topos, your logbook and people to climb with. In your units (°F or °C) and your grades (YDS or French). The social side is free, always.

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