Viewfinder Towers 

I've been meaning to comment on the route names in Bjornstadt's guidebook for some time now to help clarify what is what. In our defense, when we did the FAs of the 3 spires in the guide, almost all of the viewfinder tubes were missing the names and most were bent. Given the era, I'm sure we were half baked to boot (by the sun of course), which probably didn't help. When I did what I realize now is Brigham's Butte, I thought it was called the Prairie Dog, so I just kept that name. I visited not too long ago and the tube that now says Prairie Dog is pointed at what we called the Space Baby. I kind of liked the name Space Baby, as it looks like an obelisk (think 2001, A Space Odyssey) that just fell out of the sky and lodged in the sand, but I'm not one to go changing names, especially historic ones. Sandy Duncan is one of the first spires to the NW of these two and has an obvious 5.8ish crack on it's NW face. I don't believe it has a viewfinder tube associated with it, so that name should stick, but please feel free to change the other names back to the originals in any future guidebooks. So to clarify the mistakes in Bjornstadt's book (my fault, not Eric's): Prairie Dog should be Brigham's Butte and Space Baby should be Prairie Dog. Sorry for the confusion! Oh, and for beta purposes, we didn't put any anchors on top of any of these 3 spires, they are all (or were) simul rappels and Sandy Duncan and Prairie Dog (fka Space Baby) were both done free. Apparently, Alan Stevenson has freed Brigham's, which is pretty remarkable given that thing has the consistency of brown sugar.

I was wondering if anyone knew who is putting up the bolted face climbs on these towers? It seems like it is all pretty new. Brigham Butte, Prairie Dog, and a couple others all have new bolted routes on them.