All of these routes are classics here in El Potrero Chico. They represent some of the finest rock climbing in Mexico. Optimize your vacation time by booking an ascent through us. Come climb one with us just to warm up and gain confidence or climb all of them with us and have a great time! Either way we will give you the confidence to summit.
Our guarantee is that you will always be home for dinner. So leave your head lamp at home and let us help you SUMMIT and really enjoy your vacation. Unlike most guide services we encourage clients to lead if they like. We will give you the pitches we know you'll like and we'll climb the scary run out ones. This could be the best climbing vacation of your life.
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This is a great route that begins with two vertical pitches of 5.9 climbing to a comfortable ledge, followed buy two short wondering pitches (5.8) that lead to a 3rd class ledge. Two more ramp pitches bring you to the base of a delicate 5.10a pitch that leads you to the base of a 400ft dihedral. You follow this dihedral to the summit for four more pitches of 5.8-9 with some 5.10 moves. Super alpine like summit!
This is a fun day out on your first long multipitch climb, great views, nice belay ledges, and a palm tree on top! Some of the finest 5.9 rock climbing in Mexico.
Treasures of the Sierra Madre 5.10b 700ft. Intertmediate
This is a great route for the moderate climber looking to soak up the sun. This route boosts sustained pitches that climb a veriety of pockets, cracks and edges on beutiful white lime stone.
You begin by climbing a 80ft pillar that takes you to the steep head wall, follow the natural weekness of cracks and huecos for the next 500ft. One final lower angle pitch places you on top of one of the Potrero's finest summits.
Time Wave Zero 5.12- or 5.10+ A1 2100+ ft. One or two day ascent intermediate to advanced
This 23 pitch long bolted monster offers the avid climber every degree of climbing from slabs to overhangs, cracks to jug hauls. You can enjoy this climb as a one or two day adventure. There is an ample bivy ledge at the base of the upper section which is the crux. As a two day climb this is a great wall intro to: sleeping, cooking, and personal hygiene while tied in. As a one day climb it is great practice for speed climbing.
This is the most classic route in the Potrero. It follows the weekness that the first ascensionest took to the top of the west spire in the 60's. Check out the old home made iron pitons they left behind.
The first pitch has beautiful face climbing and an amazing window half way up to the notch. Pitch 2 climbs the narrower of the two spires. Amazing exposure and graceful moves bring you the tiny, yet exhilarating summit.
This is a excellent route that ascends the grey North face of Cerro San Miguel. With a little less than a one mile aproach this climb seems more "out there" than some of the other objectives in El Potrero. The book will give this route a rating of 5.10 but those in know will tell you that it is a 5.9 with one 5.10 crux on bullet hard limestone. Satori offers varied climbing in a semi-remote setting with a spectacular razor ridge summit.
This is a excellent route for any intermidiate 5.10 climber. All of the cruxes are short on this long climb. Eleven Pitchs of sustained 5.9 and 5.10 climbing takes you up the middle of the big wall and bring you to a spire summit with a great 360 degree veiw. This route has history because it was the one first long routes that was bolted in El Potrero Chico. It was established over the course of 52 week ends!
Climbing 1400 feet through some of the coolest features on the big wall this moderate has it all. The grade may scare some but a couple points of aid at the top of the route should not deter you from the real summit. Join us this winter for a one or two day ascent of this El Potrero Chico classic.
This is a great 5.11 route for a sport climber who has never left the ground. All five pitches offer a diverses selection of limestone features for a 5.11, 5.12, or 5.13 climber to enjoy. The summit veiw from atop the Out Rage wall is phenominal. From the top there are three overhanging rappells to the ground. This is a great intruduction to the Out Rage wall.
