West Face - Left Side
21 mixed and trad routes on West Face - Left Side, California.
Photo: Rick McCharles, CC BY 2.0 (via Flickr)- 21 routes
- 5.3 – 5.11d
- Trad · Mixed
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West Face - Left Side is a climbing area in the San Jacinto Wilderness, part of the San Jacinto Ranger District of San Bernardino National Forest in California. The Forest Service manages the land, and the area sits within designated wilderness. The West Face is divided into three sections, with this left side flanked by the West Face - Center (Flintstone Slab) and West Face - Right Side, each about 0.1 mile away. The climbing here is all trad, with a few mixed routes, and the grades run from 5.3 up to 5.11d. The hardest route listed is Scarface at 5.11d, and the easiest is Frightful Variation at 5.3, a trad route first climbed by Chuck Wilts and Jim Gorin in September 1944. For a change from the rock, Devil's Slide and the Ernie Maxwell Scenic Trail are both within half a mile. Fern Basin campground is about 3.6 miles away, and the San Jacinto - Santa Rosa Mountains Recreation Area offers lake fishing roughly 1.9 miles off.
Routes (21)
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