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Gothic Nightmare Climbing

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Routes in Gothic Nightmare

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	Iron Age Master T A4
	Nightmare on Onion Creek T A4
	Something Wicked This Way Comes 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a A2+
	Two Fall Wall T A4+ R
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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

Gothic Nightmare is the first bad mama/jama of a tower that you walk by on the Mystery Towers approach. To add onto John Sherman's description, from the south it looks like a long haired hippie who stuck their finger in a light socket and from the west it looks like a bad, bad tower.

Getting There

The approach is the same as for the Mystery Towers in general. After the rickety old bridge, park after the convergence of Onion Creek proper and the tributary leading up and to the north. Then follow the wash up, generally trending right. If you are going the right way you will go up a 30ft wet drip with a red rope attached to a block at top. From there keep going until you see two hoodos. Find a way up that hillside and then trend climber's left to the base of the Gothic Nightmare.