Description

The Main area is everything to the left and right of the Main trail past Holy Water Boulder all the way a little bit past The Fang. If you are walking out to the boulders the right side is East and the left side is west (Really it's more like northeast and southwest but we will just use east and west for simplicity).

Problems: 237+ (as of Dec. 2025)
Routes: 5

Directions

From the campground take the main trail past Romeo Void and the little area after that up to a sandy plateau. Continue on the trail and you're in the Main Area.

James March June 1998 mOthEr rOck Mail

A posse of strong climbers from Five.Ten visited Horse Flats a couple of weeks ago. Present were Chris Sharma and Tommy Cadwell, whom took little time in cranking off the testpiece “Blank Generation,” V10, from the sit start. This brings the tally of ascents to five (three using the sit start), with Matt Hoch claiming the third of the dyno via an unconventional dynamic hand matching on the top jug. Sharma and Caldwell also repeated the classics, “Sword of Damocles,” V8, and “Orange Flambe,” V7/8. Sharma got the second ascent of the scary “With All Due Respect,” V6, which he did by traversing left off the “Sword of Damocles” arete. Sharma also repeated a hard dyno that Wills Young put up on the left hand side of the “B1 Traverse”, and attempted a new line straight up and left through a blank overhang. Also tried with close but unsuccessful attempts was a new project on the Orange Flambe Boulder by the path, which is being referred to as a similar to “Karma” at Fontainbleu. James March added a couple of nice moderate lines on the back of the Fang Boulder (home of “Zack’s Roof Problem,” V5); these go around V3/4. March is also working on many hard projects at the “Flats.”