Eagle Wall
Eagle Wall in Nevada has 7 trad climbing routes with 7 difficulty grades.
Photo: Jarek Tuszyński, CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)- 7 routes
- 5.8 – 5.11b/c
- Trad
Eagle Wall is a climbing area in Nevada's Rainbow Mountain Wilderness, managed by the Bureau of Land Management's Red Rock/Sloan Field Office. It sits within the wilderness, about 0.2 miles from Oak Creek Canyon and 0.3 miles from Black Orpheus Amphitheater, so it is part of a cluster of climbing areas in this corner of the Red Rock country. The area has seven trad routes, with grades ranging from 5.8 to 5.11+. The easiest is Kaleidoscope Cracks at 5.8, and the hardest is Dances with Beagles at 5.11+. Eagle Dance is a 5.10c, and Levitation 29 is a 5.11b/c. All the routes are trad, and the first ascents are listed for several of them. The surrounding area offers more to explore. Oakey Buttress and Solar Slab - Upper Tier are both within half a mile. For a hike, N Oak Creek Canyon is about 0.6 miles away, and Red Rock Canyon Campground is roughly 6.5 miles off.
Routes (7)
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