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DescriptionKhayyam spire is the prominent Spire with the bright yellow face. It stands out in front of the Spire 2/3 gully. The awsome South Yellow Face has a long bolted route (The Yellow Face), the rest of the spire has some great long crack routes including God's own Drunk, The Wildman Traverse and others. Getting ThereThe spire is the first major spire reached on the Cathedral Spires Trail. Follow the trail until you can move right and up to the base of the spire. The ClassicsMountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Khayyam Spire:
God's Own Drunk 5.8+ Trad, 2 pitches, 320 feet
Yellow Wall 5.12a Trad, 3 pitches, 320 feet
Featured Route For Khayyam Spire
God's Own Drunk 5.8+ SD : Custer State Park : ... : Khayyam Spire
The route starts on the North Side of the spire - you can't miss it. The route follows the awesome dihedral.A few weird moves gets you up to the start of the main dihedral. There are great stances for placing gear and then you move up and out - the dihedral is almost like reverse mini steps. It kind of goes like this - place gear, move up and out, loose sight of the gear because it is under the mini overhang, place another piece and repeat. When I climbed the route my partner kept saying to ...[more] Browse More Classics in SD
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