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"Woodys Variation 10.a" 
Bitter Brew 
Cotton Mouth 
Eyes of Amber (aka Chivalry's not Dead) 
Harrell-Turner 
Liver is Evil and Must Be Punished, The 
Mumbling Bee 
Serpent Scales 
Shank, The 
Toe the Line 
Water Moccasin 
Wheat Chex 
Willit Slab 

Indian Palisades Corridor 


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Submitted By: Mark J. Nelson on Nov 5, 2002

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"Willit Slab".
Photo by Blitzo.


Description 

This wall contains mostly moderate, short, friction routes. It's a mix of patina-covered, exfoliated, and relatively clean, coarse rock.


Getting There 

From the Willit Pillar, just behind campsite #3, walk right and scramble through the boulders. This wall is actually the back side of the Varnished Wall.


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Cotton Mouth   5.6 X     Trad, 1 pitch, 50 feet   
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Woody on "Mumbling Bee". <br />Photo by Blitzo.

Mumbling Bee 5.8  CA : Joshua Tree National Park : ... : Indian Palisades Corridor
Crux is about 20 feet up or there about. A few fun traverse moves up top, then up and over left side of formation. Horizontal cracks protect well. Real fun climb!!! (I have a feeling it has been done either Solo or via a TR because it is sort of "right in your face obvious"... None the less, it's well worth doing.this thing is flat out fun!!!......[more]   Browse More Classics in CA


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Indian Palisades Corridor, Joshua Tree NP

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By M.Morley
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From: Sacramento, CA
Jan 11, 2003

Quoted from the ASCA website: "Chivalry's Not Dead": Both protection bolts replaced. Note that a thin horizontal near the top, which appears to have once had a fixed pin, is now very difficult to protect without specialty gear - however, the climbing is easy, and the more difficult climbing by the first two bolts is already runout. ASCA 1/02

By Mark J. Nelson
From: Nederland, CO
Jan 13, 2003

From my memory, and notes I made in my guidebooks:

Vogel describes Eyes of Amber as "ascends the brown face 25 feet left of Water Moccasin" and Chivalry's Not Dead as a "three-bolt route 15 feet right of Eyes of Amber," implying that it is only ten feet from Water Moccasin. He also describes a toprope (Snakes in the Grass, 5.9) between Chivalry's Not Dead and Water Moccasin.

Bartlett describes Water Moccasin as "20 feet right of Eyes of Amber," and lists a toprope (Snakes in the Grass, 5.8+) in between the two.

Based on these descriptions, and on the complete absence of a second bolted line left of Snakes in the Grass, I believe that Chivalry's Not Dead and Eyes of Amber are the same route. If I'm wrong, then the route I submitted as Eyes of Amber is more likely Chivalry's Not Dead, though there are no other bolted lines left of this all the way to Wheat Chex.

(This would not be the first time that Vogel described one route as two; witness "Cunning Linguist" and "We'll Get Them Little Pricks" on Nuclear Reactor Rock.)

By Murf
Jan 13, 2003

Damn that Vogel! And he rates Double cross at 5.7+!

By jeff allison
Dec 1, 2010

can somebody tell me what about a route in Indian Palisades corridor, it is past wheat chex about as far as you can go to the right. I saw 2 bolts going over a small roof. Is this a mixed route or an unfinished route. Where does this route end? thanks