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Hunting of the Snark, The 
Mad Hatter 
Ripped Van Winkle 
Zee Wicked Witch 

(02) West (Center) Face 


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Description 

This area of the tower gets sun in early afternoon at summer time, and gets it early afternoon in the winter. A 70m rope is useful for most of these routes, though not necessary. If not used, the midway anchors must be used to descend the routes.

Routes continue from Goliath and continue left around the tower.


Getting There 

Find the tower (duh!) and look for Goliath (the huge nose), and the routes to the wall to the left is the west face.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for (02) West (Center) Face:
Zee Wicked Witch   5.12c     Sport, 1 pitch, 120 feet   
The Hunting of the Snark   5.12+     Sport, 110 feet   
Ripped Van Winkle   5.12d     Sport, 1 pitch, 110 feet   
Mad Hatter   5.12d     Sport, 1 pitch, 110 feet   
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Featured Route For (02) West (Center) Face
Augie moving into the stem before the crux on the upper portion of the route. You can see his rope in the bottom right of the photo, big route.

Zee Wicked Witch 5.12c  NM : Enchanted Tower : ... : (02) West (Center) Face
Go up the slabby ramp of deteriorating rock that is left of the large arete. Continue up to the halfway anchors (book calls the route 5.11c to the first set of anchors, it seems more difficult than that.) Get your no hands rest at the giant hueco just at the anchors, and continue up and right. Crux is passing through the area of darker brown rock....[more]   Browse More Classics in NM


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By Daniel Trugman
From: Los Alamos, NM / Stanford, CA
Sep 21, 2012

There are three sets of chains on the West Face (to the right of the ones for Full Rubber Mission). I presume the ones on the right are for Zee Wicked and Ripped Van Winkle and the next ones to the left are for Mad Hatter. I don't know anything about the furthest left anchors. Can anyone clarify which starts/finishes correspond to which routes?

By LeeAB
Administrator
From: ABQ, NM
Sep 22, 2012

The anchor in question has been there for a long time. I believe it was put in by Chris Grijavla. The line to it was not bolted at the time. This spring I headed up and started working on that line. With the intention of starting on the Hatter and heading straight up as opposed to moving right to the Jack Daniels pit stop, hopefully yielding a more continuous line. It however still needs a fair bit of cleaning through about 15 feet and this is over the trail so cleaning needs to be done when there is nobody around.

By Daniel Trugman
From: Los Alamos, NM / Stanford, CA
Sep 22, 2012

Thanks for clarifying, Lee! I hope the new line works out. Looks cool.