Ringbolt Hot Springs and White Rock Canyon Bouldering

Ringbolt Hot Springs and White Rock Canyon have an abundance of rock in the form of…. more volcanic breccia! Along the washes the rock is almost always solid but the higher you go, the more flaky and soft it gets. There’s tons of bouldering here and cliffs up to 500’ or so with cracks for the more intrepid (and desperate!) trad climbers. There’re a couple of sport climbs down here that went in around 20 years ago. One of which is an excellent example of how not to bolt a climb, an intensive line of bright, shiny bolts for 60’ that might be spaced 3’ apart. The rock lends itself well to sport climbing and there could be a ton of it here but this is inside the Lake Mead National Recreation Area and bolts are illegal in the LMNRA. The park service suggests hiking this in a loop, down White Rock Canyon, down the river and back up Ringbolt Hot Springs Canyon. If you’ve never been here this is good way to see the area but hiking either direction works fine. Taking dogs here can be challenging. There’s a 20’ vertical steel ladder between Ringbolt Hot Springs and the river as well as a 5.0 cliff near the top of this canyon. But between the two canyons there’s a lifetime of bouldering on the Verm scale.