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| This is why they call it The Steep. Nancy cranking 5.11. | AZ : Mount Lemmon (Santa Catalin... : ... : The Steep | 2 people | Jun 28, 2006 |
| Warming up for the steep stuff. | AZ : Mount Lemmon (Santa Catalin... : ... : Bunkweed (5.10a) | | Jun 28, 2006 |
| Myself on No Slack at GAC (exciting 5.7) at the Hairpin Turn. | AZ : Mount Lemmon (Santa Catalin... : ... : No Slack at GAC (5.7 R) | 1 person | Jun 5, 2006 |
| Panorama of the north side of the Santa Catalina mountains at sunset. Visible climbing areas include Pusch Peak, Table Mountain, and the Domes above Catalina State Park. Mt. Lemmon proper sits beyon | AZ : Mount Lemmon (Santa Catalin... | 5 people | Jun 5, 2006 |
| Finger Rock as a winter storm clears. | AZ : Mount Lemmon (Santa Catalin... : ... : Finger Rock | 12 people | Jun 5, 2006 |
| Unknown boulderers at Gates Pass | AZ : Southern Arizona : ... : Gate's Pass | 2 people | Jun 5, 2006 |
| Self portrait on an easy (V0-) but aestheic arete. | AZ : Southern Arizona : ... : Gate's Pass | 5 people | Jun 5, 2006 |
| Rappeling into the sunset off Ridgeback (5.5) at Ridgeline. AJ was nervous about her first rappel, but the mountain lion encounter ten minutes later put things in perspective for her. | AZ : Mount Lemmon (Santa Catalin... : ... : Ridgeback (5.5) | 8 people | Jun 5, 2006 |
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Location: qGracey : Climbing : Photo
By: Scott Tucker When: Nov 13, 2008 | view comment >> |
Comments: Steve's Arete (5.11a). The requisite photo op route on Mt. Lemmon.
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Location: AZ : Southern Arizona : Mount Lemmon (Santa Catalin... : Mount Lemmon Highway (Catal... : Mid-Mountain : ... : The Dark Side of Oz (5.8)
By: Scott Tucker When: Sep 5, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: This is the obvious arete route past the chimney on the same side as the main wall. It's tall and has 12 bolts. The leftmost route (5.8) on the other side (Wall of Waltzing Witches) isn't named in the guidebook, and I don't think it has been posted here. That sounds like the one you're talking about.
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Location: NM : Enchanted Tower : Midnight Pumpkin Wall : Unknown (5.10a/b)
By: Scott Tucker When: Sep 4, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: Not the best quality rock on this route.
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Location: NM : Enchanted Tower : Mother Goose Wall : Big Bad Wolf (5.6)
By: Scott Tucker When: Sep 4, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: This is the most adorable route I've ever seen
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Location: AZ : Southern Arizona : Mount Lemmon (Santa Catalin... : Mount Lemmon Highway (Catal... : Summit Crags : ... : Fern Roof (5.10d)
By: Scott Tucker When: Aug 19, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: This climb is way taller than 50 ft. More like 90 ft. It uses up most of a 60-meter rope by the time you lower off. Very fun.
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Location: AZ : Southern Arizona : Mount Lemmon (Santa Catalin... : Mount Lemmon Highway (Catal... : Summit Crags : The Murray Wall
By: Scott Tucker When: Aug 5, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: To get to the routes on the backside, take the faint trail down and around a large fallen tree then work back toward the cliff. Scramble through a notch and up to the climbs on the left wall.
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Location: AZ : Southern Arizona : Mount Lemmon (Santa Catalin... : Mount Lemmon Highway (Catal... : Windy Point East : ... : Deranged Of Late (5.9)
By: Scott Tucker When: Jul 23, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: I think I lost my ego on this route. It will look deflated and should be somewhere just below the anchors. If anyone sees it, tell it wait for me, I've just gone to look for the holds for this route as they seem to be missing.
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Location: AZ : Southern Arizona : Mount Lemmon (Santa Catalin... : Mount Lemmon Highway (Catal... : Upper Highway : South Park
By: Scott Tucker When: Jul 15, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: New directions from farther up the road: Go past the hairpin turn where you would normally park. The road goes through two right curves. On the straight before the road turns left there is a dirt area on the left side to park. On the right side of the road is a bit of a trail leading up the hill. (There is currently a cairn up at the top.) Head up and left from the road to the top of the ridge. Go left along the ridge and you can pick up a faint trail going around the right side of a knol... more >>
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Location: AZ : Southern Arizona : Mount Lemmon (Santa Catalin... : Mount Lemmon Highway (Catal... : Mid-Mountain : ... : Bone Ami (5.9+)
By: Scott Tucker When: Jul 9, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: Yeah, I wouldn't recommend yarding on any of the holds on this climb....
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Location: AZ : Southern Arizona : Mount Lemmon (Santa Catalin... : Mount Lemmon Highway (Catal... : Upper Highway : ... : Simultaneous Lovin' (5.11)
By: Scott Tucker When: Jul 4, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: I might go 11a but it's not the same grade as, say, Steve's Arete. If this is 11a, Steve's is 10c or d. Not that Steve's should necessarily be the standard for 11a, but that seems to be the consensus. I thought it was considerably harder than any of the 10d's at Munchkinland, for example. Again, no reason for a ratings debate, it's all so subjective anyway, but that was my rationale for the rating I gave.
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Location: AZ : Southern Arizona : Mount Lemmon (Santa Catalin... : Mount Lemmon Highway (Catal... : Upper Highway : South Park
By: Scott Tucker When: Jul 4, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: Yeah, that first route sort of confuses things when you start down the hill. Looks like someone's been out there recently putting up the route (which looks like it might be fun when finished). Once you get down to the alcove where "Kick the Baby" and the others start it's pretty easy to figure out which climb is which.
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Location: AZ : Southern Arizona : Mount Lemmon (Santa Catalin... : Mount Lemmon Highway (Catal... : Mid-Mountain : ... : If I Only Had a Brain (5.10)
By: Scott Tucker When: Jun 25, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: This route is a little trickier to find now that another climb has been added nearby. Directly in front of the curved tree is "Who's Your Wizard?", which has distinctive brown hangars. To the left is "Ruby Slippers", which has an obvious curved crack near the start. "If I Only Had a Brain" is left of this and has a high first bolt. The anchors are lower than those on "Ruby Slippers".
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Location: CA : Yosemite National Park : Yosemite Valley : Royal Arches : Super Slide (5.9)
By: Scott Tucker When: May 2, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: If you traverse to the left end of the ledge at the end of the 2nd pitch and belay from there, you can run the 3rd and 4th pitches together with a 60-meter rope. This lets you skip the hanging belay, which you will discover on the rappel down is a very uncomfortable place to hang out. Better to skip it if you can.
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Location: AZ : Southern Arizona : Mount Lemmon (Santa Catalin... : Mount Lemmon Highway (Catal... : Lower Highway : ... : Warden (5.7 R)
By: Scott Tucker When: Mar 21, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: Hmm, what would that mean an X-rated climb's holds were shaped like?
The reason is the large questionable-looking block about halfway up. It's only a matter of time before someone yards it off onto their belayer. That said, it's been there for years without incident... Still, I'd stand back if I were belaying.
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Location: AZ : Southern Arizona : Mount Lemmon (Santa Catalin... : Mount Lemmon Highway (Catal... : Windy Point West : ... : Killer Whale (5.10)
By: Scott Tucker When: Mar 18, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: There are two sets of anchors to the left of this route, which I felt don't deserve their own separate route descriptions, but people might like to know about them. The anchors are bolts with rings (no chains). They sit too far below the lip to access easily from on top of North Fin, but if you climb Killer Whale, it is easy to traverse over to TR the next one, then do the same after that for the leftmost route. The righthand one is mostly 5.8 with a move or two of 5.10 near the top. Nothing... more >>
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Location: AZ : Southern Arizona : Mount Lemmon (Santa Catalin... : Mount Lemmon Highway (Catal... : Windy Point West : ... : 5 O'Clock Shadow (5.10+)
By: Scott Tucker When: Mar 18, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: The nuts on the chain anchors of this climb were very loose when we were there today. As in, at-the-end-of-the-bolt loose. Five-full-turns-to-tighten loose. No one around had a wrench so they are only hand tight. Which leads to a question: what size wrench do standard bolts and anchors use, so I can start carrying one in my pack?
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Location: AZ : Southern Arizona : Mount Lemmon (Santa Catalin... : Mount Lemmon Highway (Catal... : Lower Highway : ... : Dunka Dunk (5.10c)
By: Scott Tucker When: Feb 18, 2007 | view comment >> |
Comments: This seems to be going against consensus, but I liked Dunka better than Dunka Dunk. Dunka Dunk has one less loose foothold after today, though.... There is some loose rock to watch for when topping out and when pulling the rope, so make sure your belayer isn't napping. (Probably good advice in general.) Both routes are fun!
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