Spanish Dagger Fortress Rock Climbing

From the parking, look across the dirt road for cairns that guide you towards a big tree with a break in the short cliff. Hike up and right into this gully, following cairns up a well-established trail. The trail deposits you in a narrow field/meadow where a well-worn trail leads to a mountain lion skull staked as a trail blaze. From the skull, more cairns lead you to the obvious boulders. Hike around the Chevron Boulder and through the Tunnel Boulder, making your way past two smaller boulders towards the cliff. After the boulders, skirt right around a tree to gain a large cairn which marks the immediate left turn steeply uphill towards the cliff. This trail is more faint but heavily cairned throughout. The approach takes approximately 25-30 minutes from parking to the base, but it can be done in 20 minutes moving briskly, or 30-40 minutes with heavy packs. Many social trails can take you to various scattered boulders, but all trails eventually lead to the main cliff; cairns all guide to the Spanish Dagger Fortress.