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Elevation: 4,777 ft 1,456 m
GPS: 38.9926, -113.3883
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Shared By: Andy "RED" King on Feb 5, 2007
Admins: Perin Blanchard, GRK, David Crane

Description Suggest change

Most of the info posted here is from the book "A Bouldering Guide to Utah" by Baldwin, Beck, Russo. This is mostly a bouldering area with a few mixed gear, trad and sport routes. This place is epically eerie and seated at the end of a dry desert lake out in the middle of the desert in southern Utah. The boulders are monstrous red quartzite behemoths and since it all sits next to a dead lake it magnifies the feeling of how beautifully desolate and remote this area is. Besides the dead lake the rocks themselves give you an eerie feeling. Some of them are even hollow, completely solid, but they still ring like a bass drum when you bang on them. This is a five star bouldering area if you like to go high.

Getting There Suggest change

The easiest way to get there is from Hwy 50. The exit off of the highway is on the right heading east, or on the left heading west, around mile marker 38 or 39, just passed the Ibex Well sign if your heading east. You will know it is the right road because there are two posts at the entrance where you can tell there used to be a sign. follow that dirt road for about 2.1 miles where you will come to a couple stacks of rocks marking the next turn. turn right at the rock piles heading back west. cross the dry lake bed and you pull straight up to the crag.

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Classic Climbing Routes at Ibex

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V5 6C
 55
Topus Arete
Boulder
V5 6C
 10
Knight
Boulder
V7 7A+
 26
Ju
Boulder
V7 7A+ PG13
 17
White Arete
Boulder
V8 7B
 14
Jesus
Boulder
V8 7B
 12
One Eyed Man
Boulder
V8+ 7B+
 8
Meat and Potatoes
Boulder
V9 7C PG13
 12
White Arete Sit
Boulder
V10 7C+
 11
Bruce Lee
Boulder
V10 7C+
 5
Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster
Boulder
V11 8A
 7
Bone Collector
Boulder
5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b
 46
Aurora Borealis/Lunar Power
Trad 6 pitches
5.11b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c
 31
Ride the Wave
Sport
5.11 6c+ 23 VIII- 23 E4 5c
 80
Ewe.F.O
Sport
5.12c 7b+ 27 IX- 27 E6 6b
 12
Nose Shadow
Sport 4 pitches
Route Name Location Star Rating Difficulty Date
Topus Arete Bouldering > Topus Mountain > Topus Boulder
 55
V5 6C Boulder
Knight Bouldering > Warm Point
 10
V5 6C Boulder
Ju Bouldering > Red Monster Area > Red Monster
 26
V7 7A+ Boulder
White Arete Bouldering > Red Monster Area > Thing 1
 17
V7 7A+ PG13 Boulder
Jesus Bouldering > Candyland
 14
V8 7B Boulder
One Eyed Man Bouldering > Sunny's Boulders
 12
V8 7B Boulder
Meat and Potatoes Bouldering > Red Monster Area > Thing II
 8
V8+ 7B+ Boulder
White Arete Sit Bouldering > Red Monster Area > Thing 1
 12
V9 7C PG13 Boulder
Bruce Lee Bouldering > Red Monster Area > Red Monster
 11
V10 7C+ Boulder
Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster Bouldering > Sunny's Boulders
 5
V10 7C+ Boulder
Bone Collector Bouldering > Red Monster Area > Thing II
 7
V11 8A Boulder
Aurora Borealis/Lunar Power Quartermoon Tower > E Face
 46
5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b Trad 6 pitches
Ride the Wave S Corridor > Holey Moley Wall
 31
5.11b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c Sport
Ewe.F.O Corral Crags > Ewe For Real Wall
 80
5.11 6c+ 23 VIII- 23 E4 5c Sport
Nose Shadow Shadow Buttress
 12
5.12c 7b+ 27 IX- 27 E6 6b Sport 4 pitches
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