Lost Horse Wall  Photos:  Recent | Best | Popular Elevation:  4,100' Lat, Long:  34.0218, -116.179 Map Page Views:  69,077. Good page?    Administrators:  C Miller, Adam Stackhouse, M.Morley, Sam Vanderhyden, Tom Erickson Submitted By:  Rob "rk" Kalinowski on Jul 9, 2002 Make this area a Favorite What's New  Printer View Add Area  Add Photo  Add Comment  Add Event

joshua trees at the base of the Lost Horse Wall.

Description 

An interesting looking (look for the "sun" and large spot 1/3 the way up) large, and wide wall with a bunch of very nice multi pitch (2-4 pitch) routes on it. Classics include a The Swift (easy 7), Roan Way and Dappled Mare (8) and Bird On A Wire (10a). With a good, solid but not super obvious decent walk off, makes for a great climb. Mix up your J-Tree day with some cool multi-pitch!

Getting There 

Take the Ranger Station Road west for about a half of mile, to the small parking on the south (left) or a bit more to a larger lot on the right. Lost Horse Wall is several hundred yards to the south of the road. It's basically on the east side of the valley you walk into, so it faces west and gets lots of sun. (read - hot!)

Getting to the routes requires some easy scrambling to a ledge system that you can move around to find your route. I suggest finding your route on the the wall before getting really close up!

Decents for the routes are walk offs to the right (south) down some boulders and slabs.

The Classics

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Bird on a Wire 5.10a  CA : Joshua Tree National Park : ... : Lost Horse Wall - Right Sid...

Appropriately named, You'll feel like a Bird On A Wire on this one. Maybe the best route on this wall.Pitch-1 Climb or 3rd class up to the ledge about half way between, The Swift and Dappled Mare. Set up a belay anchor in the left facing corner a few feet right of a vertical crack.Pitch-2 Climb the ever thinning crack system past a couple of bolts. Place a thin piece and tip-toe past it, Crux. The crack eases of and breaks right. Pick a convenient scoop to belay in. Note: Avoid setting u...[more]   Browse More Classics in CA

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The refueling station at the top of Dappled Mare.	Lost Horse Wall- Left Side. Photo by Blitzo.	Lost Horse Wall - Right Side. Photo by Blitzo.
Jared on the traverse.	Looking Back at the First Belay	BETA PHOTO: View of Lost Horse Wall from the parking lot