Mountain Project Logo

Favorite desert tower chimney

Original Post
knowbuddy Buddy · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2010 · Points: 225

Wondering what your favorite chimney pitch or pitches are on desert towers and why

Peter Blank · · Grand Junction, Colorado · Joined May 2008 · Points: 720

Independence Chimney on Independence Monument
Pitchfork Tower
2nd pitch stembox Lonely Vigil
All of Kor-Ingles
Dirty Old Man
Boognish
Longbow Chimney

You?

David A · · Gardnerville, NV · Joined Oct 2008 · Points: 405

Second to last pitch on West Side Story, Cottontail Tower. Full body stem that splits the entire tower in two, you can look out both sides. Way cool!

knowbuddy Buddy · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2010 · Points: 225

Lonely vigil stem box is one of my favorites as well.
Second pitch of honeymoon chimney is classic, it took some shenanigans for me to be able to make the transfer onto the face climbing.
Exposure on the short chimney section of Kissing Couple is pretty awesome.
Both chimney's on the north six shooter are great in their own aspects.
I really want to check out West Side story, looks amazing

Jacob Dolence · · Farmville, VA · Joined Jun 2006 · Points: 806

The Windows Route in Sedona, AZ
mountainproject.com/v/the-w…

look at the pics on the link for the why.

Peter Blank · · Grand Junction, Colorado · Joined May 2008 · Points: 720

Second pitch of Off Balanced Rock in Arches I remember being pretty good too. Good topic. It's hard to be a great tower without squirming at least a little.

Moritz B. · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Mar 2013 · Points: 185

I liked the first pitch chimney of Jah Man on Sister Superior since it actually has pro along the way :-)

knowbuddy Buddy · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2010 · Points: 225

The first pitch on jah man is great as well. It has pro even though it's pretty secure and popping out of the chimney onto the belay stance at the sidewalk is a such a cool view.

Moritz B. · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Mar 2013 · Points: 185

Also the short squeeze chimney on the second pitch on Zeus tower is fun. It has lots of hidden goodies inside and is pretty chill.

Stephen Crimin · · Salt Lake City, UT · Joined Jun 2012 · Points: 65

The second pitch on Abraxes Tower ( mountainproject.com/v/abrax…) in Kane Springs by the Tombstone has a really fun, straightforward chimney, you get to place protection inside a finger crack located in the chimney. The climbing is good, the view is great, and the approach is short, unlike some of the other towers.

+1 for the stem box on Lonely Vigil stem box

Paul Irby · · moab, ut · Joined Jan 2010 · Points: 141

Honeymoon Chimney. It's clean and has nice desert varnish. A real beauty.

Charles Vernon · · Colorado megalopolis · Joined Jan 2001 · Points: 2,655

Not sure if it's my favorite, but I thought Space Tower was pretty dang cool.

Paul S · · Fruita, CO · Joined Dec 2004 · Points: 820

Last pitch of Texas Tower is pretty hard to beat in terms of quality squirming. Long pitch, good rock, and leads to an amazing summit.

Skullybones · · Desert SW · Joined May 2013 · Points: 46
Charles Vernon wrote:Not sure if it's my favorite, but I thought Space Tower was pretty dang cool.
+1 for sure. Great little tower!
Larry Harpe · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Mar 2015 · Points: 43

Space tower is an awesome Tom Gilgie Classic.
Super Chimney of the desert is also great and rarely done.
All the other ones mentioned are great too.

Peter Blank · · Grand Junction, Colorado · Joined May 2008 · Points: 720

Where is super chimney?

Larry Harpe · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Mar 2015 · Points: 43

Peter it is up above the Moab Rim Trail.

T.L. Kushner · · Salt Lake City, UT · Joined May 2009 · Points: 5

north chimney on castleton

Manny Rangel · · PAYSON · Joined Jan 2006 · Points: 4,789

I think the final pitch on North Six Shooter's Lightning Bolt crack is the best I've done there. It is usually tried as full on squeeze until it gets too narrow. then you back off and get over it by the outside edge of the crack. Until you get by the constriction and flop back into the chimney to finish. Very exposed too.

Paul Gagner · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Oct 2007 · Points: 71

Honeymoon Chimney

Peter Blank · · Grand Junction, Colorado · Joined May 2008 · Points: 720

I have recently come to the conclusion that it must be Ascended Yoga Masters.

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

General Climbing
Post a Reply to "Favorite desert tower chimney"

Log In to Reply
Welcome

Join the Community

Create your FREE account today!
Already have an account? Login to close this notice.

Get Started