Lost Dry Creek Cirque Rock Climbing

Park in the paved parking loop at the end of the pavement on Dry Creek Road/FS 152C. Hike up the rough dirt road of FS 152C for 1/3 mile, just past the series of gnarly rock shelves where many prospective motorists are turned around. Turn right (east) off of the road and through some small boulders, and locate a hiker's trail that follows the crest of the ridge between the Dry Creek Spire cirque and the Lost Dry Creek Cirque to the north. This hiker's trail is across FS152C from a small pullout/vista which can be parked it if you have a high-clearance rig and want to cut 5 minutes or so off the hike. The trail is fairly well-defined as it apparently follows an old road for the initial several hundred yards. It becomes a bit braided as the ridge begins to steepen. Where the trail steepens, sniff around a bit to find a path which departs this hiker's trail, and head north down the slope until it deposits you in the large wash in the bottom of the Lost Dry Creek Cirque. Follow this wash, staying right at a few subsidiary washes cutting off on the left (north) and staying left when there is a more major fork near the head of the cirque with a right (south) drainage branching off. I cairned these junctions, but the cairn kickers may eliminate these and make your life harder. Basically, you are trying to stay in the main wash, and following it all the way back to the northeast part of the cirque. The couple of small summits of Scorpion Spire and The Bristle Pig are occasionally visible in the upper reaches, and can help guide you. The wash only steepens some in the final bit, and you leave it pretty much directly below Scorpion Spire.
Total hiking time is 30 to 40 minutes from the pavement to these climbs. Most of the approach is quite civilized for Sedona standards, with very little brush bashing and only a bit of steep, loose uphill at the end.