All Locations > Arizona > Southern Arizona > Mt Lemmon (Sant… > Mt Lemmon (Cata… > 7 - Upper Highway

Charlie Dome and The Lony Tusk Rock Climbing

Climbing Area Map

Routes in Charlie Dome and The Lony Tusk

L › R R › L A › Z

	Double Or Nothing S 5.11 6c+ 23 VIII- 23 E4 5c
	Drunken Master S 5.11 6c+ 23 VIII- 23 E4 5c
	Ivory Tower S 5.10+ 6b+ 21 VII+ 20 E3 5b
	Lust In The Dust S 5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b
	Master Debater S 5.11d 7a 24 VIII 25 E5 6a
	Wanderlusk S 5.10 6b 20 VII- 19 E2 5b

Order Wrong? Sort Routes

Explore this area in 3D

Use onX Backcountry to explore the terrain in 3D, view recent satellite imagery, and more. Now available in onX Backcountry Mobile apps! For more information see this post.

Elevation:	7,200 ft	2,195 m
GPS:	32.41624, -110.7572 Google Map · Climbing Area Map
Page Views:	5,085 total · 40/month
Shared By:	jbak x on Sep 17, 2014
Admins:	adrian montaño, Greg Opland, Brian Boyd, JJ Schlick, Kemper Brightman, Luke Bertelsen Page Updates (admin only)

See Weather Forecast

Description

A large dome and a free-standing tower about 1/4 mile SSW of The Steep. Named for CP (Charles) Little with whom I visited the area in 2005. We thought there might be some really steep stone there judging from Google Earth, but no such luck. We found a few bolts already there, and assumed that Tony Lusk had been there already. No big surprise.

I went back in 2012 with Joe Shiefman and Jeremy Parks. We did a couple of Tony's routes and put up a few more.

The routes are not fantastic but they are pretty good and it's a cool spot. You will find solitude there... it's too far off the track to see anyone else. AND...Lust In The Dust, Ivory Tower, Master Debater and Double Or Nothing have deep morning shade.

The Lony Tusk is yet another crag in the upper Sabino area that requires technical climbing to reach the summit. The others are The Steep and Delta Dome. It is quite likely that Tony was the first person to stand atop each of these crags.

Getting There

There is a trail from The Steep that winds down below the Not-So-Steep. It is probably pretty overgrown. It is an uphill grunt going out that way though.

It should be pretty easy to contour over from Delta. I've scouted part of the way, almost to where it intersects the trail from the Steep.

It will take about an hour to get there from Marshall Gulch. If you can find it. Are you adventurous at all ?