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BETA PHOTO: View from the base of The WatchTower. The first p...
Description
Overall, Seventh Sojourn has mostly good rock and adequate protection. In my experience, pitch 2 is the pitch that stands out: heady traverse to small pro followed by enjoyable steep climbing. The guide "Sandia Rock" indicates that pitch 3 is the crux pitch (5.9).
P1: Face and crack climbing mostly straight up the major weakness to a bolted belay.
P2: Traverse right several moves and then up as needed to get some small pro (~1/3 inch) near the base of the flake. Then ascend the flake followed by climbing a left trending dihedral above the belay to a bolted anchor.
P3: Traverse left, then up and right, then up past a bolt. Continue mostly straight up until finding a short vertical crack above a small horizontal ledge - gear about 1/2 to 1 1/2 inches. We belayed from here.
P4: Seventh Sojourn proper continues mostly straight up and through a small chimney/roof and then to the top. Can belay from the rap tree although communication may be difficult (extend the anchor to the cliff top?).
If the leader runs out the start of the 3rd pitch a bit then the second can skip the vegetated traverse and instead get immediately into some enjoyable terrain (5.9?) - i.e., climb up while trending left from the belay through small features and a couple shallow cracks before resuming pitch 3 proper.
At the top of pitch 3 and from the described gear anchor, the bolt visible up and left about 15 feet protects a few 5.10a moves of a p4 variation which then continues up past the 1st bolted anchor for the rap of The WatchTower.
Location
The start of the route is found after rapping down The WatchTower. Much of Seventh Sojourn can be previewed during the raps.
Protection
Anchors from bottom to top are bolts, bolts, gear, and a couple large trees about 20 feet back from cliff top. Standard rack to 2 1/2 inches. Cams or slider nuts less than 1/2 inch useful.
WatchTower
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