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The Three Gossips Rock Climbing

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Routes in The Three Gossips

	Be There or Be Talked About T 5.11 6c+ 23 VIII- 23 E4 5c C1
	Lyon Trautner Route T 5.11 6c+ 23 VIII- 23 E4 5c
	Speak No Evil T 5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b C2
	West Face T 5.11 6c+ 23 VIII- 23 E4 5c C1-2

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Access Issue: Closures and Restrictions Details

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Access Issue: RAIN, WET ROCK and RAPTOR CLOSURES: The sandstone around Moab is fragile and is very easily damaged when it is wet. Also please ask and be aware of Raptor Closures in areas. Details

WET ROCK: Holds rip off and climbs have been and will continue to be permanently damaged due to climbers not respecting this phenomenon. After a heavy storm the rock will remain wet, sometimes for several days. PLEASE DO NOT CLIMB IN MOAB during or after rain.

RAPTOR CLOSURES: please be aware of seasonal raptor closures. They occur annually in the spring. Indian Creek Raptor Closure walls include: Echos, The Wall, Far Side, Original Meat, Tenderloins, Second Meat, First Meat, Selfish, Six Star, Cliffs of Insanity, Public Service Wall, Disappointment Cliffs, Fin Wall, Broken Tooth, Cat Wall, Slug Wall, Reservoir Wall, Critic’s Choice.

Description

The Three Gossips is the multi-summitted formation in the Courthouse Towers area of Arches. The rock is soft entrada, but it is split with many long crack systems that provide good free and moderate aid routes. Most routes are three pitches long. The West Face is the classic free route at 5.11 with a really nice 5.10ish hands first pitch(also goes easily at A1). Speak No Evil is a nice thin crack system on the east face that can be clean aided.

Getting There

Drive up the road from the visitors center to the Courthouse Towers pullout, or the next pullout on the right. The Three Gossips is on the left side of the road opposite from the Organ and The Tower of Babel. Walk the road until you are at the toe of the Tower of Babel. Cross the road and look for a small wash, even with a drainage pipe that runs under the road. When this small wash intersects the main wash, take a left. Follow this large wash until you are close to the steep hill at the base of the Gossips. Exit the wash and follow a defined trail up the fill to the base of the W Face of the Gossips. All routes are most easily reached by scrambling up to the West Face and traversing from there. The slickrock below Speak No Evil and other east face routes is harder to climb than it looks.

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Classic Climbing Routes at The Three Gossips

Mountain Project's determination of the classic, most popular, highest rated climbing routes in this area.

5.11 6c+ 23 VIII- 23 E4 5c C1 21 ● Be There or Be Talked About Trad, Aid 3 pitches
5.11 6c+ 23 VIII- 23 E4 5c C1-2 79 ● West Face Trad, Aid 3 pitches