Nodi in Chiang Mai

Crazy horse is the premier sport climbing area in northern Thailand. All styles of climbing from technical slabs to steep tufa climbing in a beautiful setting.

On offer are a mix of fingery, technical and powerful sport routes on slab, vertical and steep limestone faces.

Follow the trail at the end of the parking and past the temple up the hill for 20 minutes.

Bouldery and powerful start.

Bouldery and powerful start and a great thin slab section. Bit of a squeeze job, but none the less, a great line! Hardest route at the lower sector of Heart Wall.

Enjoyable pumpy climbing on good rock all the way to the top. Quick link lower offs.

Great line for the grade and a stunning pump fest to the top from the half way point.

Cool climbing on great rock. The big flake is a wonderful feature and super knee bar friendly no matter your size.

Awesome technical climbing at the grade with a lovely decision for all at the lip.....do I go left or right?

Very unique climbing for the grade on a great clump of rock. Unusual indeed.

It climbs ok and it's a bit of fun.

Fun to play on for the grade.

Technical crux cross through with a delightful finish. Worth the effort!

Stunning climbing all the way to the anchors. It really doesn't get more enjoyable than this. Get on it!

Powerful climbing on steep terrain. As the name says "Decide".

Tough and short with a balancy committing finish. Little runout with a dodgy fall possibility. Pull hard youngsters.

Its all there, you just need to find it all. Good climbing.

Very unusual rock with a nice little touch of "Weird" attached. Have Fun!

Technical thrutchy start then you're off and running........and you will be....Impressed.

Absolutely stunning for the grade. Varied and powerful in spots.

This is the best at the grade in the area. Simply stunning climbing all the way to the top. The route can be climbed with 60m rope, it has an anchor at 20m (just over the big tufa).

Sleep climbing through tufas, with a powerful pull over the lip to balancy stance a little way above your last bolt.....hence the name.

Great climbing on beautiful rock. Go for the onsight!

Super bouldery and thrutchy from the ground to the anchors. Do if that sort of thing suits you.

Go and go left and then left again and up and then up again. First anchor at 22 metres, then final anchor at 25 metres. Great route. Pain to clean.

Nice varied climbing for the grade. Short but value packed. Quick links at the anchors.

Great fun climbing with a sting in the tail. Pull hard for the on-sight.

Super fun, super easy and all the way to the top. Sometime you even get monkeys at the anchors trying to steal your quick draws. Take a spare if you're the second on the route. You have been warned.

5 bolts and 2 threads.

8 bolts and 2 threads.

8 bolts and 1 thread.

9 bolts and 1 thread.

8 bolts and 1 thread.

Wild overhanging routes with sick exposure!

The Anxiety State Crisis Cave (Tham Wiung Fah) is a massive cavern, more than 70m deep, inside the limestone formation that makes up Crazy Horse Buttress.

A four pitch climb that starts on the left face of the cave after walking in from the lower entrance. Goes all the way to the top of the cave for a great view of the cave below and the Mae On country side. Lots of loose rock so check everything before pulling on it and wear a helmet!

1. 25m. 10 bolts.

2. 25m. 11 bolts.

3. 20m. 19 bolts. Traverse right about 4m to a ledge when you start, to access the 5c climbing, otherwise you will be going up a 6a variation.

4. 10m. 7 bolts. Continue up the cave exit. Belay from bolts. A rappel station is 2m climber's left of this belay station.

For the rappel, you can do 2 rappels outside of the cave or 3 rappels inside the cave (70m rope)

Steep and sustained, all the way!

Anxiety State Crisis takes a line up a featured pillar in the center of the cave.

Wall just to the left of the Upper Cave Entrance.

Located to the right of Reunion. Figure out the tricky start and then climb through huecos to an anchor at the headwall. From the anchors, you can veer left and continue onto the 2nd pitch of Reunion.

Accessed from halfway up Reunion Pitch 3. Belay anchor is inside the cave. Finish on the same anchors as Reunion Pitch 3.

7 bolts and 5 threads.

The route is in your left side just coming into the cave, in front of Cool and Funky

Just inside the cave to the right.

Located just inside the mouth of the cave on the right side. (To the right of Cool and Funky). Start just to the left of a pile of bamboo. Be careful and try not to fall during the first 2 bolts; the bamboo can injure you.

First 3 bolts of the Wild Pumpus, then the go left to Foaming at the Mouth.

This line begins on "The Wild Pumpus/Foaming Pumpus" for the first 4 bolts through the boulder problem, then traverses left into the second bolt of "Freeblast" and the rest of the route.

Unclip the second bolt of "Freeblast" after clipping the third to reduce rope drag.

The first route at Crazy Horse

Few routes in an eerie cave. The routes are a bit dusty, but the setting is unlike anything else you have seen before. Small caving experience included in order to get to the main chamber of the cave.

The sky windows inside the cave provide a minimum of lighting, so you can also go without headlamp.

Get an impression from inside the cave here: