Priest Draw  Photos:  Recent | Best | Popular Elevation:  7,000' Lat, Long:  35.0819, -111.601 Map Page Views:  71,283. Good page? (4 likes)    Administrators:  Greg Opland, James DeRoussel, JJ Schlick, Tom Erickson Submitted By:  Colin Cox on Apr 12, 2007 Make this area a Favorite What's New  Printer View Add Area  Add Photo  Add Comment  Add Event

Dishwasher, V3. Photo of me, by Alex (up in a tree...

Description 

Priest Draw is a beautiful, grassy plain 50 yards wide that separates sporadic limestone bluffs on each side. Most of the climbing is on the sunny, south facing side of the Draw, and the bluffs are spread out over a 2 mile distance from the beginning of the road.

One of the only free standing boulders, The Triangle Boulder, greets visitors with dead vertical warm-ups and a variety of good eliminates. Behind the Triangle is a nice little wall with several good problems and a plaque commemorating Robert Drysdale, a prolific developer of the area.

A little further down the road is the parking area. Back in the day you could drive the road right up to any of the bluffs in the Draw, but overuse by a variety of user groups eventually led to it's closure and the creation of the parking area around 2002. Camping is not permitted here, but a road forking left just before the parking area leads to a number of good sites.

A handful of walls and roofs, such as Killer Wall, Pottery Wall, White Wall and Puzzle Box, are just a minutes walk from the parking area. Anorexic, Monster and Mars roofs have the longest walks...about 15-20 minutes.

Climbers are by far the biggest user group here now, and so keeping Priest Draw beautiful is largely our responsibility.

Getting There 

Head towards The Pit, pass the pullout, take next right follow road for about 3.5 miles take right turn onto dirt road and park at preist draw sign (300 yds)

The Classics

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Me, trying too hard on a V2 (found the real beta l...	Walking away from The Brain Boulder	BETA PHOTO: Triangle boulder (1st one you'll see)
Hanging out with friends in the Draw	Not the Draw: Lee warms up on an easy highball at ...	Rob Drysdale spotting on FA of Down with the Bass,...
Climbing the Triangle with Ron Dawson	Who is Rob Drysdale? The guy on the plaque on the ...	Danger, big roofs ahead...
Matt Hoch, the designer of all the best beta and o...