THE C O K E B O T T L E
C O K E B O T T L E
Get out your spurs, dude, or get bucked right off !!
A straight on view of the Coke Bottle - Coke Bottle 'Center',
(Walt's Wall to the left, Fall Wall to the right.)
The Coke Bottle is one of three prominent south facing formations of the Central Massif. It gets sun most of the day and it is easily identified as the 'big bulge' separating Fall Wall from Walt's Wall. It's steep, grooved with large vertical water troughs, embedded with warts of foreign rock (corbels), split by cracks from finger size to ones that can swallow you whole - and, as a general rule, has a gnarly surface. It probably goes without saying that most of the climbs found here kick butt. Some of the climbs are 'stuff of legends' and if you can climb them, you may become part of the story too. Silver Salute and Panther of the Weak have seen a mere few free ascents and the second pitch of 'Panther' has seen none to date. Maybe this one's for you! Your hangtime stamina will be tested by The Fourth of July and offwidth strength tested by Horn's Mother. Space Oddity ascends an impressively steep slab on Coke Bottle Right while TM Chimney takes you from the bottom to the top of the formation on the 'inside' of the rock. That's contrast, cowboy. Mainstreet, a highly touted offwidth testpiece is found in the same vicinity. So ask yourself "am I ready for the home of the hardmen"? If so, this place is all yours.
COMMON DESCENT ROUTES: One can descend from most of the fixed anchors, depending upon where you end up. There is a commonly used set of rap anchors above the route Fourth of July, CB Left (one rope to an intermediate station on Walt's Wall, or a double will get you all the way down). Also common is using the Mickey Mantle Anchors atop the Fall Wall Upper Tier (one rope will get you to the intermediate shelf, two 60's will get you all the way down to the base of Fallout in the Spider God Alcove). One could rappel the full height of Walt's Wall using the standard anchors found there. There is a trail leading down the 'back side' (NE) of this formation into Box Canyon as well.
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This is Coke Bottle Right, home of Mr. Rockbiter (10a),
Neverending Story (11b), Revenge of the Nothing (11c),
Space Oddity (aka Significant Locals, 12a), Young Guns (13a),
and the offwidth classic Mainstreet (10a).
Here's Coke Bottle Left showing the two classics
4th of July (12a, J4) and Horn's Mother (11a, HM).
Boardwalk (11c, BW) is located on the center part of the formation.
See beta on two new climbs
on the COKE BOTTLE !