Heading to the Cirque of Towers next month. Anyone done the Southwest face of Sharks Nose? How involved is the approach from the cirque side? Sounds like the route starts chossy but gets better, how good are the upper pitches?

What about North Face Center on Mitchell. A couple of the descriptions advise a 4" piece. Do you really need it? How is the route? I've never talked to anyone who's done it.

SW on Sharksnose is a great route. The approach from the Cirque is fairly long and not too obvious if you are unfamiliar wiht that side of the mtns. Best to make a separate trip and climb it from Shadow Lake. The first pitch isn't great but the rest are all really good.
N Face of Mitchell, climbed it a few times. Biggest piece I used was a #4 friend. Its not the best route in the Cirque but if you've climbed the all classics its worth doing. Fairly long day with the descent and all.

So what do you consider to be the classics in the cirque? Obviously the East ridge of Wolfs Head, NE face of Pingora and.... I'm primarily interested in 5.7 to low 5.10. Any other suggestions would be much appreciated.

Any of the routes on the south/southwest side of Pingora, I've done trips to the Cirque and only climbed multiple routes on Pingora. They are all worthwhile. The NE ridge of Warrior I is classic. Bring 2 ropes to rap. The NW route on Sharksnose probably gets scoffed at for being only 5.6 but is a definate super classic. The north face of Sharksnose is OK.

Anyone else have input/ route recommendations?