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The Jungle Wall 19 routes in Cliff

  • Avg. Height: 140m
  • Style: Mostly Sport
  • Approach time: 1 minute
  • Ascents: 72
  • Aka: La Selva

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Description:

This cliff is one of the easiest to find -- it is the big vegetated slab behind the tin pavilion.

Several of EPC's classic multi-pitch go up this wall.

Access Issues: inherited from El Potrero Chico

Most of the climbing here is in a 'State' Park, but there is no fee. There are a few campsites and rooms available just down the road (i.e. 10 minute walk) from the park entrance.

Approach:

Step over the aqueduct and walk past the (mostly) abandoned picnic area.

Areas

Map Name Style Climbs Ascents Height Grade Band Topos
18The Cat House Sector All Sport 3030m 1

Routes

RouteGradeStylePopularity
1 Robin Hood

Starts left of "Stairway to Nowhere", up to its summit, further up the ridge into a large bowl, then up to the summit of "Time Wave Zero".

Descent: rappel TWZ.

5.10d
Trad 760m
2 Stairway to Nowhere

Mixed gear and bolts, seldom climbed and hard to find.

5.10d
Mixed 120m , 10
3 Tamarindo

Climb the gully just left of "Las Chimuelas".

5.5
Trad 30m
RouteGradeStylePopularity
4 Las Chimuelas

Walk up the trail made of concrete tires leftwards from the tin pavilion until you get to the left-most set of bolts, just before the gulley that is "Tamirindo". The first pitch trends leftwards, avoiding the obvious roof.

FA: Magic Ed, Tami, Ismael Garza,

5.9
Sport 90m
5 Warifikis

Start as per "Las Chimuelas", but after 3rd bolt follow bolt-line straight up to the left side of the roof.

5.11c
Sport 35m
6 * Jungle Boy

Shares start with "Las Chimuelas" and "Warifikis", but goes over the roof at an easier part than Warifikis.

Climb up and over the roof. Then up slab above.

5.9
Sport 55m
7 Maria la Sabrosa

Ed rates this 5.10a, Dane rates it 5.8. I split the difference. :)

FA: Dane Bass,

5.9
Sport 34m

The next three routes ("Jungle Fever", "Voodoo Trance", and "Hot Rock Global Challenge") are on a wall above the ledge/garden on the left side of the face. Climb the first three pitches of "Jungle Moutaineering", then walk leftwards up the 3rd class trail along the base of the face to find them.

8 Jungle Fever

This route is approached by climbing the first 3 pitches of "Jungle Mountaineering" then following the 3rd class trail leftwards up through the garden to the wall.

This is the last route along the trail (left-most).

5.10a
Sport 61m , 12
9 Voodoo Trance

This route is approached by climbing the first 3 pitches of "Jungle Mountaineering" then following the 3rd class trail leftwards up through the garden to the wall.

Pitch 4 has a 5.11b variation -- go straight up through the overhanging dihedral for the 11b, or up a ramp before re-joining the dihedral.

5.10d
Sport 180m , 12
10 Hot Rock Global Challenge

This route is approached by climbing the first 3 pitches of "Jungle Mountaineering" then following the 3rd class trail leftwards up through the garden to the wall.

This is the first line of bolts that will be found on the wall.

5.10c
Sport 21m , 7
11 * Jungle Mountaineering

Climb the obvious clean water streak right of the Jungle Boy roof, on the generally left side of the wall.

5.10a
Sport 120m
12 *** Yankee Clipper

The summit register is at the end of pitch 13, most people skip the last two pitches, and, especially, the last pitch.

5.10b
Sport 460m , 12
13 *** Space Boyz

This Potrero classic was bolted entirely on the weekends. Starts just north of the pavilion. Loose rock. Helmet recommended. Please be careful of the partying Mexicans below. This route has been climbed in 2 1/2 hours, car to car.

FA: Curtis Mai, Todd McCray,

5.10d
Sport 300m , 12
14 CDC & J
5.8
Sport 34m , 8
15 The Grafiti Route
5.8
Sport 27m , 5
16 *** Black Cat Bone

Starts just left of the tree climbing close to the aqueduct. Climbs the black streak through the large roof right of "Space Boyz".

FA: Magic Ed, Dane Bass,

5.10d
Sport 270m , 14