The Friar and Byrd Pinnacle

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

Featured Route For The Friar and Byrd Pinnacle

Red Zinger 5.10+  NV : Red Rock : ... : The Friar and Byrd Pinnacle

An Indian Creek style crack climb which would probably get three stars if it were longer or didn't have a big ledge in the middle. The climb follows a left facing corner in a west facing alcove about five minutes walk east of Solar Slab gully.P1: 75', 5.10. Mostly fun, 5.9 jamming and laybacking with a technical stem/reach at 3/4 height. This pitch has several stances/rests and ends at a rap station on a big ledge.P2: 35', 5.10+. Though Swain...[more]   Browse More Classics in NV