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(02) West (Center) Face

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(02) West (Center) Face

Submitted By: Anthony Stout on May 5, 2006
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Description 

This area of the tower gets sun in early afternoon at summer time, and gets it early afternoon in the winter. A 70m rope is useful for most of these routes, though not necessary. If not used, the midway anchors must be used to descend the routes.

Routes continue from Goliath and continue left around the tower.


Getting There 

Find the tower (duh!) and look for Goliath (the huge nose), and the routes to the wall to the left is the west face.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for (02) West (Center) Face:
(08) Zee Wicked Witch   5.12c     Sport, 1 pitch, 120 feet   
(09) Mad Hatter   5.12d     Sport, 1 pitch, 110 feet   
(07) Ripped Van Winkle   5.12d     Sport, 1 pitch, 110 feet   
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Featured Route For (02) West (Center) Face
DTP sending his last remaining route on the Tower: <a href='/v/new_mexico/enchanted_tower/the_enchanted_tower/105895544'>(07) Ripped Van Winkle</a> Sept. 20, 2008.

(07) Ripped Van Winkle 5.12d  NM : Enchanted Tower : ... : (02) West (Center) Face
This fine line spawned the now classic, and much more popular Goliath. This was the original line up the Towers prominent prow, turning left around the arete at the midway anchors, and continuing to the top along the golden NW face just left of the hanging arete (the upper half of ZWW).Now largely ignored, this route makes a great victory lap for those who have sent Goliath, but its also a great route in its own right, and would make an excellen...[more]   Browse More Classics in NM