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Military Wall

Submitted By: Ladd Raine on Oct 4, 2006
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Description 

Military Wall is awesome and will fill you whole climbing day for youand your entourage from the warm-up to the last red-point attempt on your project.

With climbs like Possum Lips, Sunshine,and Moonbeam ,anyone who bothered making the trip to Red (read: can at least climb 5.9) can have a fun day climbing classics that are overhanging although moderate.

With climbs like Tissue Tiger, Gung Ho, Nagypapa, Fuzzy Undercling, etc... the hard-body in you with delight with options of overhanging, hard, demanding and pumpy routes that have classic mvoes hard finishes and great picture oppurtunites.

Come on over to Military Wall, you won't leave dissapointed.

P.S. Stays in the sun until 2ish, most of the routes over 5.10 stay very dry in the rain.


Getting There 

From Slade, KY (Miguel's): Highway 15 west, 1 mi. Take right onto hwy 77 driving past some seriously bad looking real estate. Continue on 77 through Nada Tunnel and down the other side and some crazy switchbacks. When the hill ends there will be a parking lot on your left, park then hike 100' back up the road, cross it and the brook at the little bridge, make your way up the trail, take a right for Military Wall continue up the trail for 5-10min then round a corner and you'll have Sunshine and Moonbeam on your right and Tissue Tiger, Fuzzy Undercling, etc ahead of you on the overhanging intimidating wall.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Military Wall:
Moonbeam   5.9     Sport, 1 pitch, 50 feet   
Sunshine   5.9     Sport, 1 pitch, 50 feet   
In the Light   5.10     Sport, 1 pitch, 50 feet   
Possum Lips   5.10+     Sport, 1 pitch, 50 feet   
Fuzzy Undercling   5.11-     Sport, 1 pitch, 60 feet   
Another Doug Reed Route   5.11b     Sport, 1 pitch, 65 feet   
Gung Ho   5.12a     Sport, 1 pitch, 60 feet   
The Reliquary   5.12b     Sport, 60 feet   
Tissue Tiger   5.12b     Sport, 1 pitch, 70 feet   
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Photos of Military Wall Slideshow Add Photo
Unknown climber on the 13d at Military.

Unknown climber on the 13d at Military.

Beta photo of the Military Wall.

BETA PHOTO: Beta photo of the Military Wall.

The Nada tunnel.

The Nada tunnel.

Climbers on Gung Ho and Tissue Tiger.

Climbers on Gung Ho and Tissue Tiger.

It can be difficult to find parking at the Military Wall on autumn weekends.

It can be difficult to find parking at the Militar...


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By Ammon
Jun 8, 2008

There are actually about 56 routes on Military Wall, not just 28.

By Ladd Raine
Administrator
From: Plymouth, NH
Jun 9, 2008

Where does it say there are 28?

By nathaniel
From: winter park, CO
Feb 12, 2009

then add the other 28 routes to the site