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Description
This area includes the formations found in the area of Twin Buttes, or near the Chapel Of The Holy Cross. Many new routes have been added to the walls immediately behind and east of the Chapel in the last few years.
Formations include (but not limited to): Streaker Spire, The Watchtower, Christianity (aka Beckey) Spire, Minister and the Pulpit, Blow Job Rock, Devil's Thumb, etc.
Getting There
Drive on 179 to Chapel Road (easy to spot from both ways), head east on Chapel Road and find a spot in the lower parking area (getting harder to do).
PMT takes the natural line de resistance up the steep front of the buttress. Excpect steep, technical face as well as down home crack slugging. The third pitch offers as much exposure as you can get on the formation.To the right of Trundlers Club. Pitch 1: Climb corners and face past bolts to a two bolt belay. 5.11d. Pitch 2: Climb hand and fist crack into the vag chimney and out the small overhang to the Triangle Ledge of Love. 5.10+. Stan...[more]
What is the trick for the parking here & accessing the trailhead? It seems that the only parking is only for church tourists, etc... Tried going there a couple times only to be turned around. There are plenty of other crags to go to in Sedona, so no big loss, but I'm curious what tactics are used for getting to the climing here?? Thanks!
There used to be parking right outside the gate. Now adays you have to go back down Chapel road and find a pullout and walk back in. Kind of a drag, but... I have never been locked in the gate area or ticketed.
I wonder if anyone has ever petitioned the owner of the church to allow general parking during off-peak hours. The lot was empty during my visit.
For visitors, before you enter the gate, you can squeeeeeeze three vehicles on a pullout on the left before the gate. And maybe one car on a pullout before a sign just in front of the gate.
I recommend parking elsewhere and carpooling to the site to save space for your fellow climbers.
Church Spires Area
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