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The Friar and Byrd Pinnacle

Submitted By: blackflyrancher on Feb 1, 2007
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Description 

This [area] is relatively easy to find as it finishes on a large boulder perched atop a column of rock roughly 250-275 feet tall. As you are following the trail into Oak Creek it would be most efficient to keep your eye out for a faint trail near the mouth of the canyon that breaks off northwest at a large, scoop of vanilla ice cream boulder roughly the size of five golf carts or 8 donkeys of relatively equal mature stature. Continue the approach as for Johnny Vegas and its neighbors but cut north earlier - when you are even with the column of rock with the boulder on it - and aim for the southeast section of the column where you will find an obvious varnished right facing corner. Red Zinger will be visible directly to the east across a small gully.


Getting There 

Approach as for Solar Slab.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for The Friar and Byrd Pinnacle:
The Friar   5.9     Trad, 4 pitches, 300 feet   
Red Zinger   5.10+     Trad, 2 pitches, 110 feet   
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