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Tarantula 5.11a

★ 1.0 · 1 Trad PG

PG: A little more to think about than the grade alone suggests: gear that's slightly tricky to place, or spaced a bit further apart than usual. What do these mean?

FA: Scott Woodruff, Dan Hare 1975
Scott Woodruff · Dan Hare

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Position along the wall from the open catalogue (OpenBeta), not from a guidebook.

How did 5.11a feel?

Nobody has said yet.

Against the posted grade, which stays as its source states it. One answer per device; a later one replaces it.

Sun today
sun 07:20-16:20
Wall faces S (USGS elevation). Shade from the surrounding terrain is counted.
Deep terrain: the skyline averages 18° above horizontal, so the sun has to climb well clear of the rim before it reaches this wall.
Rain & forecast
0 mm of rain in the last 48 hours.
11-11 52°/36° · 0.0 mm · 19 mph · pm storms 0% 11-12 51°/34° · 0.0 mm · 6 mph · pm storms 0% 11-13 52°/34° · 0.0 mm · 9 mph · pm storms 0%
Open-Meteo, fetched 2026-11-11 18:40 UTC

Conditions reported

Nothing reported recently.

Report what you see

Reports are dated and fade on their own: wet rock after 3 days, a bad bolt after a year. No names, no text.

Access & safety

Emergency: call 911. Read out your location: Works without signal. If GPS fails, this crag's approximate map point is 40.40681 N, 105.53720 W (Tarantula, The Bookend). That point can be off by hundreds of metres, so say so.

Access details for this crag haven't been checked yet.

Sources

OpenBeta

More beta: OpenBeta · Mountain Project · theCrag

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