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Jim Donini styles up the "5.10 Boulder" in Uptown ...

Description 

Area north of the barbwire fence.


Getting There 

From the parking area stay north of the fenceline which splits West Elden in two.

The best trail to the cliff base starts just left of a boulder called The Egg. This trail brings you to the cliff base beneath TT's Terror and Zit Slab.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Uptown:
Exit Strategy   V10     Boulder, 18 feet   
Five Easy Pieces   5.5     Trad, 1 pitch, 80 feet   
Baxter Crack   5.6     Trad, 60 feet   
Zit Slab   5.7     Trad, 1 pitch, 70 feet   
Right Deception Crack   5.7     Trad, 1 pitch, 70 feet   
TT's Terror   5.7+     Trad, 1 pitch, 70 feet   
Left Deception   5.8     Trad, 1 pitch, 70 feet   
Megadeath   5.9     Trad, 1 pitch, 70 feet   
The Prow   5.9     Trad, 1 pitch, 80 feet   
Middle Deception Crack   5.10 PG13     Trad, 1 pitch, 70 feet   
Gone Fishin'   5.10c     Trad, Sport, 1 pitch, 75 feet   
Retirement Crack   5.11a     Trad, 1 pitch, 50 feet   
Bold is Love   5.11     Trad, Sport, 1 pitch, 95 feet   
Now Smell This   5.11d     Sport, 1 pitch, 45 feet   
John's Jugs   5.12     Trad, 65 feet   
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The top of Bold is Love. The Prow can be seen in the background.

Bold is Love 5.11  AZ : Northern Arizona : ... : Uptown
Start ten feet right of the initially dirty, mossy crack system on a flake jug on the face. Climb good, slabby features left and up to the crack system previously mentioned. Climb a few moves up the low angle wide crack(beware of your rope falling into a slot just above), then angle slightly left up the slabby dihedral with a seam that offers some protection just before a ledge is encountered on your left. Use the ledge, or not, and continue up the crack line that leads to the steep, striking pr...[more]   Browse More Classics in AZ


Photos of Uptown Slideshow Add Photo
Scott Baxter on the crux one-finger undercling move on his test-piece "Tunnel Boulder", Uptown Mt Elden (Donini was never able to get this one!)

Scott Baxter on the crux one-finger undercling mov...

Another historic shot- the amazing mixed climbing at West Elden after a snow-rain-freeze event, late 70s

Another historic shot- the amazing mixed climbing ...

Phil Condrey climbing ice in Uptown Mt Elden- late 70s. Yes, folks, that is a Chouinard alpine hammer taped to his right arm, and his prosthetic hook snagging tool holes on his left- Phil lost both hands in a Civil War reenactment.

Phil Condrey climbing ice in Uptown Mt Elden- late...