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Femme Fatale Area

Femme Fatale Area is a bouldering crag in California with 19 routes and 14 difficulty grades.

Femme Fatale AreaPhoto: Doc Searls from Santa Barbara, CA,USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)
19 routes
V0 – V10-11
Bouldering

Is Femme Fatale Area open right now?

Alert in the area

The Forest Service lists 2 alerts for Los Padres National Forest.

As of · Source: USFS · Los Padres National Forest. Agencies don't list every closure — check before you go.

Best time to visit Femme Fatale Area

Best months: October–May. Best months have typical highs of 55–85 °F, lows of 30 °F or warmer (32 °F where the station doesn't record snow), at most one snowy day and no more than 12 wet days.

  1. Jan

    66° / 36°

    8 wet

  2. Feb

    67° / 36°

    9 wet

  3. Mar

    70° / 38°

    7 wet

  4. Apr

    76° / 41°

    4 wet

  5. May

    80° / 46°

    2 wet

  6. Jun

    88° / 49°

    0 wet

  7. Jul

    94° / 55°

    0 wet

  8. Aug

    96° / 54°

    0 wet

  9. Sep

    91° / 51°

    1 wet

  10. Oct

    83° / 45°

    2 wet

  11. Nov

    73° / 40°

    3 wet

  12. Dec

    64° / 34°

    6 wet

Typical high / low (°F) and days with rain or snow, 1991–2020. Measured at Gibraltar Dam #2, CA, 10.6 mi away at 1,558 ft. The station sits about 1,400 ft lower than this place, so expect it a little cooler here. This station doesn't record snowfall. Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020.

The Femme Fatale Area is a bouldering area in California's Los Padres National Forest, within the Santa Barbara Ranger District. The Forest Service manages the land, and the climbing sits just 0.1 mile from the Meilee Area and the Big Heat, making it a natural pairing for climbers working the cluster. The routes are all bouldering, and the grade range stretches from V0 up to V10-11. The median is V3, so climbers of all levels can find something to work on. Brigid O'Shaunessy is the easiest at V0, while Enter Sandman, at V10-11, is one of the hardest. Prohibition Traverse, a V7, was first climbed by Andy Patterson. Spring and fall are the most comfortable times to go. Typical averages from the nearby Gibraltar Dam weather station show May highs around 80°F with lows near 46°F, and October highs around 83°F with only about two wet days. That station sits roughly 1,400 feet lower than the area, so expect cooler temperatures on the rock. Beyond the climbing, Fremont Campground offers saltwater fishing about 4 miles away, and Rattlesnake Trail and Paradise Campground are also within about 4 miles.

Routes (19)

Brigid O'ShaunessyV0Martini MadnessV0There's Friendlier Places to DrinkV0+DustyV1+Lord of the FliesFA: Dunno... been climbed for ages.V1+Egret AreteFA: Bernd ZeugswetterV10Enter SandmanFA: Thomas Townsend, February 2013V10-11Phyllis DiedricksonFA: Who knows?V2Swingin singlesV2Two pinches to gloryV2-3Kathy MoffatV3Shaken, Not StirredV3Irene JansenV5High HatV5-La DirectaFA: Jason KamenV5-6Shaken, Like A TornadoV6-7Prohibition TraverseFA: Andy PattersonV7The SupercrackFA: Possibly Bernd Zeugswetter, sometime before 2008?V7The ConchFA: Andy Patterson???V8

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