The regular (and only?) route starts on the far west end of the formation, and basically follows the easiest-angled line. Start up a funky slabby feature, with overlaps, into an obvious dihedral. Once in the dihedral, there is good gear, but getting to it is bouldery and runout. The dihedral is quite good, with stemming and jamming, and a strenuous finish into ledgy ramp. We belayed up and right, on a nice ledge, under a large perched block. Pitch 2 starts by negotiating (yikes--laybacking!) the block. This is spooky, as it looks barely attached, and its removal would have unpleasant consequences for the whole party. Once you leave the block behind, meander up and right (we stayed just below the crest), on high quality 5.7ish face climbing, with little or no gear (get it where you can, and leave long slings to avoid rope drag) until you reach easy ground and the base of the final pillar. This was a rope stretching pitch. On the last pitch, we took the left crack (it looked easier). This turned out to be real nice, varied jamming and stemming and mostly good rock. The wide section in the middle is not as hard as it appears! The descent is tricky. There was no sign of previous rap anchors. I recall we tied off a block or used a thread, and needed extra webbing to reach the edge of the top ( bring some spare webbing to help here) and rapped down the north face. Two 200' ropes made it to a large ledge with no obvious anchor possibilities, from where we spent some time searching for a feasible downclimb to the ground. This is a fun route (well kinda), with three 5.9ish pitches, and a nice summit.
Protection
bring a selection of cams from small to offwidth size. Maybe one or two of each to 4" or 5", heavy on the hand/fist-size stuff. A few large wires. Extra webbing and slings.
The Rhino Horn is about 8.5 miles below the La Sal Loop roadand from most vantage points is not up high on a ridge. The first pitch is very hard for 5.9. The third pitch is easy for 5.9 and very enjoyable. We rappelled north 150 feet to a large ledge, then rappelled (off a tree) again 80 feet to easy slabs.
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