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Baby Cakes 
Better Red Than Dead 
Bienvenidos 
Black Streak 
Chicken Heads 
Chicken Shit 
Clean Green Dream 
Cryin' in the Rain 
Dirty Black Nightmare 
Dirty Diagonal 
Dung Alley 
Five Years After 
Fried Chickens 
Holthouse to Hell 
Mama Jugs 
Ocho Diamentes (Tech-No-Star) 
Rite of Summer Dreams 
Seaman Girl 
Serpent Face 
Serpentine Crack 
Summer Dreams 
Suprise-Suprise 
Techtonics 
Techweenie 
To Bolt on Lead or Not to Bolt (TBOL) 
Unknown (Left of Baby Cakes) 
Unknown (Right of Mama Jugs) 
Walking Dread 

Mosaic Rock 


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Busy day on the south face of Mosaic Rock.

Description 

The highest concentration of routes at Tres Piedras ascend the lovely south face of Mosaic Rock. This 200 ft tall cliff offers many excellent (mostly) single pitch climbs protected by bolts and gear.


Getting There 

Walk north from the parking area, past South Rock to the base of the formation.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Mosaic Rock:
Dirty Diagonal   5.7     Trad, 2 pitches, 150 feet   
Chicken Heads   5.7     Trad, 1 pitch, 200 feet   
Chicken Shit   5.7     Trad, 1 pitch, 40 feet   
Fried Chickens   5.8     Trad, 2 pitches, 220 feet   
Serpentine Crack   5.8     Trad, 2 pitches, 200 feet   
Mama Jugs   5.8 PG13     Trad, 2 pitches, 190 feet   
Baby Cakes   5.8+     Trad, 1 pitch, 90 feet   
Clean Green Dream   5.9     Trad, 140 feet   
Five Years After   5.9 PG13     Trad, 1 pitch, 150 feet   
Unknown (Right of Mama Jugs)   5.9+     Trad, Sport, 57 feet   
Bienvenidos   5.10a/b     Trad, 1 pitch, 100 feet   
Better Red Than Dead   5.10b PG13     Trad, 1 pitch, 180 feet   
Black Streak   5.10b     Trad, 1 pitch, 160 feet   
Serpent Face   5.10c PG13     Trad, 1 pitch, 110 feet   
Walking Dread   5.10c     Trad, 1 pitch, 140 feet   
Unknown (Left of Baby Cakes)   5.10+     Trad, Sport, 1 pitch, 90 feet   
Holthouse to Hell   5.11-     Trad, 2 pitches, 220 feet   
Techweenie   5.11+     Sport, 75 feet   
Techtonics   5.11+ R     Trad, Sport, 75 feet   
To Bolt on Lead or Not to Bolt (TBOL)   5.11+ PG13     Trad, 1 pitch, 70 feet   
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High stepping into a mantle on Holthouse to Hell.

Holthouse to Hell 5.11-  NM : Taos Area : ... : Mosaic Rock
Holthouse to Hell is probably the easiest route up the intimidating wall right of Serpentine Crack with the Holthouse climbs, and is the best climb I've done so far at Tres Piedras at this grade or easier, at least, as far as I can recall.The Direct Start is recommended, and isn't any harder than the upper section of the route in my opinion. Begin just right of Serpentine Crack, face climb past 2 bolts, and reach an easy runout. Or use the original start to reach this same section by t...[more]   Browse More Classics in NM


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By Stuart Turner
Jan 26, 2009

What's up with Holthouse Hallsack?

By Eric Whitbeck
Jun 18, 2012

Anyone know if TBOL, or whatever the left most of the four steep routes is called, was also put up by Doug and Lee? The first bolt is suspect, the second is a joke, and the large flake which looks like it would eat up a big cam is a bit hollow. Its fine for climbing but putting a cam back there is about as safe as the button head below. FA party opposed to upgrading the hardware? No additional gear and same placements, just modern?
Thanks