The Details: A.k.a. Wall Street, but I think that's just the name for one section. Camp about 300m further out along the road. It was minus 8-9C every night we were there in mid-November, hate to think what winter can be like. Fortunately the classic Moab Diner has fantastic breakfast specials which'll thaw you out.
The rock:
Access: Stop the car and open the door!
A beautiful stark setting, the crag is the wall on the left. This is the Colorado River again, it's certainly carved more than 'just' the Grand Canyon.
Not exactly a killer walk in. This is after I onsighted Flakes of Wrath (5.9), which is quite hard to protect the committing crux undercling around the top roof.
This shot shows the Direct Start (5.11c) to Flakes of Wrath, which is a great toprope problem off the same anchor - the beautiful splitter cracks are about .10c, the hard bit is up high where they run out and you're on crappy worn faceholds. Bad Moki Roof (5.9) goes out this end of the big low roof just behind the car - topropers have worn grooves so deep in the lip that you could literally sink bomber cams in them. It's pretty damn chilly on shady November afternoons, my belayer wanted me to move the car so as to sit inside with the heater blasting and belay out the window!!
ClimbingMoab.com An excellent site for most Utah crags including Potash Road. Outdoors in Utah A short comment on some Potash Road climbs. TheCrag.com As always. Record your Potash Road ticks here, and see what everyone else is climbing.
© 2003 Will