Siphon Draw
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Access Issue: PLACING BOLTS IS ILLEGAL IN THE SUPERSTITION WILDERNESS!
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In the early '90's the USFS banned all placement of bolts in the Superstition Wilderness. This unfortunately includes replacement of existing bolts. Violating this ban may result in climbing restrictions on this beautiful area. Please think twice and go bolt somewhere else.
Spheres
The
Lost Dutchman’s iconic canyon peregrination (
SD#53) can be materially split into two distinctive sections: The moderately-attainable, notable, and popular draw (~3200'), which definitively caps and sources the
lower bajada;
and the moiling
upper arroyo ascent, that’s prevailed steeply with the western crest of the more toilsome
Flatiron (~4550'). Understandably, the sweeping, flat and definitive edge of this monolith is most trekkers’ pretension.
Another reason to meander this area could be to complete the
Superstition Ridgeline hike between Lost Dutchman and
Carney Springs. Regardless, many wayfarers aren’t here to attain the more anecdotal goals of these basins. Perspicacious climbers know the lower sphere is northeasterly boxed in by aptly-named
Suction Gully and the North Buttress’ classic Supes climb:
Spider Walk.
Below and south of this these two other prominent areas at the base of the steep Ripped Shirt gully, the
Siphon Dome (~2550’) projects from the draw's center lower alluvials. Surely the obvious smaller boulders just past this smaller rhyolite resurgence at ~1¼ miles, slightly up-trail and east, have established and upstanding boulder problems.
The steep south flanks of the drainage are obscurely punctuated by Kay’s Pinnacle and the crowd-pleasing
Crying Dinosaur.
These apexes are subtlety framed by a precipitous, westerly sweeping facade, terminating with the recondite
Forrest Spires’ routes.
aka BC Towers Other climbing aspirations surely are possible, if not attempted already, predominantly north and east of where the upper basin route culminates.