Rock Garden Valley - Left Side  Photos:  Recent | Best | Popular Elevation:  4,200' Lat, Long:  34.0215, -116.1777 Map Page Views:  12,419. Good page?    Administrators:  C Miller, Adam Stackhouse, M.Morley, Sam Vanderhyden, Tom Erickson Submitted By:  C Miller on Jul 4, 2009 Make this area a Favorite What's New   Print a Mini-Guide with routes Add Route  Add Photo  Add Comment  Add Event

Rock Garden Valley-Left.
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Description 

This popular area is home to a wealth of moderate cracks and faces with excellent rock and good protection. The presence of bolted rap anchors across the top means one can get in a large number of routes quickly - provided it's not too busy.

Routes listed from left to right -

Pop Rocks (5.10b)
Sugar Pops (5.10c TR)
Top of the Pops (5.10d)
Silent but Deadly (5.9 R)
On the Side (5.10a TR)

• About 50' to the right past a break in the wall

Getting There 

Continue up through boulders past the Rock Garden Valley - Right Side to where it levels out and you're there.

The Classics

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Rock Candy 5.9  CA : Joshua Tree National Park : ... : Rock Garden Valley - Left S...

The climb can be started directly under the first bolt via a large undercling flake (5.10), but the normal start is about 10' to the left, and about halfway to the start of Rock-a-Lot. Once above the flake a thin horizontal crack provides protection before the first bolt. Easy moves lead up and left to the second bolt where the angle steepens and a thin seam starts (microwires handy here). Pull some thin moves (crux) and then hit a finger crack which leans to the right higher before petering ...[more]   Browse More Classics in CA

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Entering the fun upper section...	View from Rock Garden Valley	my wife and dad finding some shade at the base on ...
Rock Garden Valley - Left Side, Joshua Tree NP	Rock Garden Valley (far left side), Joshua Tree NP