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BETA PHOTO: The Tombstone from Cenotaph Spire

Description 

The Tombstone is the tall towerlike mesa you can see for miles as you approach this area.


Getting There 

The road approaching the Lost World Butte area passes right next to this formation. Maximum 2 minute approach to any of the routes.


The Classics

Mountain Project's determination of some of the classic, most popular, highest rated routes for Tombstone:
Family Plot   5.8 C1     Trad, Aid, 3 pitches, 340 feet, Grade II   
The Gift   5.8+ C2     Trad, Aid, 3 pitches, 360 feet, Grade III   
Rigor Mortis   5.9 C2     Trad, Aid, 3 pitches, 340 feet, Grade III   
The Epitaph   5.10+     Trad, 3 pitches, 280 feet, Grade II   
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Featured Route For Tombstone
Paul Ross on the 140' first pitch

Keswick Lads Day Out. 5.10 C3  UT : Moab Area : ... : Tombstone
Both chaps were from the town of Keswick in the English Lake District.The climb starts up the very obvious corner left of Family Plot on the East end of The Tombstone.P1) Aid passed an old drilled piton from a previous unknow attempt and gain the 140' corner. Use leeper cam hooks and small cams to reach three bolts at its top where the crack closes.Belay at a 3 bolt stance above.(Best to take a hand drill as belay area may have been damaged by target practice).C2 140'P2)Move left from the belay ...[more]   Browse More Classics in UT


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Tombstone from the east

BETA PHOTO: Tombstone from the east

Tombstone

Tombstone

Easy approach

BETA PHOTO: Easy approach

Tombstone camp

Tombstone camp

Tombstone camp. Epitaph is the route just to the left of the moonlit arete on the right.

Tombstone camp. Epitaph is the route just to the l...

Looking northeast from the Tombstone at night.  Cenotaph Spire on the left.

Looking northeast from the Tombstone at night. Ce...

The Tombstone.

The Tombstone.