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Airport Tower 
Chocolate Corner 
Cinco De Mayo 
Cowboy Hat, The 
Crack of Noon Tower 
Dirty Old Man 
Irishman's Temple - "The Cleansing" 
Layback 
Little Bighorn 
Mother's Day 
Nubbins to Nothing 
Organ Pipe Spire 
Phantom Spire 
Pipe Dream 
Pipe Organ Spire - South West face 
Pipe Organ Spire-Southeast 
Rainbow Tower 
Red Iguana 
Split Decision 
Sunken Curve Corner 

Other areas

Submitted By: Leo Paik on Mar 12, 2002
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Description 

There are many other areas in the monument with climbs that might be best categorized as "other areas." These include Devil's Kitchen, Liberty Cap, Airport Tower, Crack of Noon Tower, Dirty Old Man Tower, Ute Canyon, Roadside Crags, Devil's Canyon, Kodel's Canyon, Fruita Canyon, Wedding Canyon (though you have a couple routes from this area already - Fast Draw, Medicine Man), No Thoroughfare Canyon, Gypsy Towers, Hueco Buttress, Super Crack Buttress, and Terra Tower. There are many routes to add but do not match the rocks listed as options for Colorado N. Monument. Some of these are excellent in quality.


Getting There 

Colorado N. Monument other routes are scattered in the monument. From Grand Junction follow the signs to the monument to the South. Many of these are accessed via the Rim Rock Drive or via Colo. Hwy. 340.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Other areas:
The Cowboy Hat   A1     Aid, 50 feet   
Phantom Spire   C1+     Aid, 1 pitch, 100 feet   
Mother's Day   5.8     Trad, TR   
Cinco De Mayo   5.9     Trad, TR, 1 pitch   
Rainbow Tower   5.9 C1+     Trad, Aid, 3 pitches, 220 feet, Grade III   
Split Decision   5.10a     Trad, 3 pitches, 400 feet, Grade II   
Chocolate Corner   5.10-     Trad, 1 pitch, 75 feet   
Red Iguana   5.10-     Trad, TR   
Crack of Noon Tower   5.10     Trad, 1 pitch, 150 feet, Grade II   
Dirty Old Man   5.10     Trad, 2 pitches, 280 feet, Grade II   
Irishman's Temple - "The Cleansing"   5.10 A2 R     Trad, Aid, 3 pitches, 300 feet, Grade III   
Pipe Dream   5.11+     Trad, 5 pitches, 320 feet, Grade III   
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