Wall of Denial

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Grade	Trad	Mixed	Sport	Total
5.11	20	1	3	25

Directions to Wall of Denial

This wall is in property owned by USFS. Be respectful.

From the parking lot of the Junior Williamson Rest Area in Slade, turn left (north) on KY 11, drive 0.1 miles under the Mountain Parkway overpass to a "T" intersection with KY 15. Turn left (east) and continue for 1.5 miles, then turn right (north) on KY 77. This highway is also known as "Nada Tunnel Road", and you may see a street sign so designated at this intersection. Drive 4.4 miles through the tiny town of Nada, through the tunnel, and over the steel bridge (stay right after you cross the steel bridge) to the intersection with KY 715. KY 77 curves left near an old barn while KY 715 continues straight. Stay on KY 715 (do not take the curve to the left) for about 7.1 miles until you reach a one lane concrete bridge. Park just before the bridge on the left. Hike down to the river and follow the trail along the river past some garbage, modern man petroglyphs (aka graffiti), firepits, hungover campers, and a couple of limestone caves. After about a half mile you will cross a tributary and come to a large, flat campsite. Do not veer left from the main trail at this point or you will head uphill to Eagle Point Buttress. Stay on the main trail and cross two more tributaries. Just past the second tributary, look for a smaller trail which ducks off to the left and goes uphill to Wall of Denial.

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Route	Spray	Name	Type	Grade	User Stars	Length	Picture
0 1	-1	Cold Shot	Sport	24 5.11a	2.29 (7)	100 100ft	1
1 2	-1	Hair of the Dog	Trad	18 5.10b	3.50 (10)	100 100ft	1
2 3	-1	Testosterone Testpiece	Trad	14 5.9	2.00 (2)	45 45ft	0
3 4	-1	Apehouse	Trad	11 5.8	2.50 (2)	50 50ft	0
4 5	-1	Double Trouble	Trad	21 5.10d	3.60 (5)	60 60ft	1
5 6	-1	Gorge Factor 10	Trad	14 5.9	3.60 (5)	130 130ft	1
6 7	-1	Anne's Crack	Trad	17 5.10a	2.64 (11)	35 35ft	0
7 8	-1	F.O. Nazi Art Police	Trad	18 5.10b	2.00 (1)	35 35ft	0
8 9	-1	Pink Panties Pulldown	Trad	8 5.7	2.53 (17)	40 40ft	0
9 9a	-1	11:11	Trad	25 5.11b	3.31 (13)	60 60ft	1
10 9b	-1	Cougar Bait	Trad	11 5.8		50 50ft	1
11 10	-1	Bongo	Trad	6 5.6	3.41 (46)	50 50ft	1
12 11	-1	Red River Renaissance	Trad	15 5.9+	3.20 (35)	45 45ft	1
13 12	-1	New Red River	Trad	14 5.9	3.72 (29)	60 60ft	1
14 13	-1	Campfire Crank	Sport	31 5.12a	3.00 (7)	45 45ft	1
15 14	-1	Icy Fresh	Toprope	25 5.11b		50 50ft	0
16 14a	-1	Sisyphean Labor	Trad	14 5.9	3.33 (6)	55 55ft	1
17 15	-1	Strick 9	Trad	14 5.9	4.48 (65)	50 50ft	1
18 16	-1	Buckeye Testpiece	Trad	6 5.6	2.35 (23)	50 50ft	1
19 17	-1	Toxic Avenger	Sport	21 5.10d	4.00 (36)	50 50ft	1
20 18	-1	Chemical Imbalance	Mixed	25 5.11b	3.50 (4)	50 50ft	0
21 19	-1	Must Dihedral	Trad	11 5.8	3.00 (3)	35 35ft	0
22 19a	-1	Drug Pusher	Trad	31 5.12a	2.75 (4)	60 60ft	1
23 20	-1	Blue Balls	Trad	14 5.9	3.00 (1)	60 60ft	0
24 21	-1	Funhouse	Trad	8 5.7	3.88 (59)	100 100ft	1

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8 comments {add your own comments}

Anonymous said on March 9th, 2005

GPS 37.49259N, 83.33695W

Gaar said on September 27th, 2005

Got lost looking for this place and ended up at eagle point. ????????

Ascentionist said on January 31st, 2006

Didn't go far enough.

Paul3eb said on July 10th, 2006

might want to double check those gps points..

Josephine said on November 20th, 2007

the guide book directions are pretty much right on. just have to remember which campsite is the last one. it's in a field where the trail forks left (stay by the river). the river will take a pretty hard left shortly thereafter. keep going. count 2 tributaries and then go up-hill on the left about 50 feet after. you should be in a bunch of rhodos if you're on trail. now, where's one of those nifty signs "Wall of Denial -->" like they have all over the PMRP & Muir when you need it :-)

Myke Dronez said on May 5th, 2008

A large pine tree has fallen down where the trail cuts left uphill. Cross the huge trunk and cut immediately left - there is a cairn for the old trail past the trunk but the tree and rootball took out what was left of the fork off.

Anonymous said on June 27th, 2008

been there, at the very top about 30 yards back, you hear a dog barking... someone lives up there now, kinda really ruins it, that that the beer cans every where, note on the first eagle buttress before the ending peak, some1 carved a nice 420 real big in a rock, note lookin for, like wheres Waldo- PEACE!

Ascentionist said on November 19th, 2008

Oops: 37.820958, -83.561194

Route details are copyright Ray Ellington, John Bronaugh, and other Red River Gorge climbers. Climbing is an inherently dangerous sport. The information in this guidebook is subject to error and should supplement never replace common sense and caution, competent guidance and instruction, and actually being outside. One should be especially cautious on matters of route length, descent type, and number of bolts (especially since such things do change occasionally).

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